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A man works on a shiny large steel wheel more than twice his size.

A stronger Canadian economy starts with a circular economy in cities and regions

Smoke billows from three smokestacks against a blue sky with billowy clouds.

GHG emissions likely to rise if Conservatives win April 28 election

The sudden vacuum in the fight against environmental crime and corruption

The tanker is docked alongside another ship at a jetty. 

A day late and a dollar short: Exporting Canadian natural gas to the EU

The pellets are small and cylindrical. Nine of them sit in the palm of someone’s hand.

Nuclear-waste consultation phase comes later

Cranes position green-coloured pipes with mountains in the background.

There is an alternative to trying to pipeline our way out of Trump’s crisis

Rows of fuel bundles sit stacked under water. They are small metal cylinders. The water gives them a turquoise hue.

Ottawa needs to step in before nuclear waste project goes any further

A worker clad in a white jumpsuit and hardhat sprays their gloved hand. The burnt-out remains of several vehicles and a neighbourhood are in the background. A line of barbeque propane tanks are maked with white Xs.

The L.A. wildfires are a warning to Canada

The building has a long corridor with high ceilings, brick walls, two storeys of tall windows with many mullions, and a ceiling with metal pieces criss-crossing. Nine of the metal rotors fill the space. Each one is large and round, with green metal boxes lining the edge. They look like large spinning tops.  

The three-legged stool is the way to net zero by 2050

Signs held by protesters calling for financing of climate adaptation.

It’s time for climate policy to shift to adaptation and resilience

New models of shared rule can secure better infrastructure in Indigenous communities

The great paradox of the North

A Sunstar and the thinner brittle stars sit on a carpet of green vegetation on the ocean floor.

Protecting the ocean floor could help mitigate climate change

The global energy transition could disrupt 10 per cent of Canadians

The worker is standing next to the wall in a hallway. She leans with one hand on a rounded wooden railing that runs the length of the wall at waist level. With her other hand, she lifts the hand of a man seated in a wheelchair facing the wall. He has a curve in his spine that bends him forward. Two other people watch from down the hallway. One is in a wheelchair, the other is seated under a window. The walls are pale yellow. The floor is brown linoleum.

When you think of green jobs, do you think of care work?

Before we “axe the tax,” a quick lesson in history and physics

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