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Beans, fruit, tomatoes and bread in a waste bag.

Canada should borrow the EU’s playbook to cut food waste

A display of items made of ivory including tusks and an elephant carving.

Canada needs a national strategy to fight environmental crime

A bridge is in the foreground and a small passenger plane in the background amid an orange haze.

Canada’s buildings can do more than consume electricity

Water rushing through dam sluices.

Ontario’s new hydro rules give Indigenous equity real weight

Carney walks across the loading area in front of gantry cranes and a container ship alongside the port facilities.

Canada’s major-projects agenda has a carbon blind spot

Chart showing the volume of crude oil going to the Saint John refinery from other countries.

Getting Canadian oil to Atlantic Canada is in the national interest

Carney and Smith are in a warehouse with tall shelves and a tractor.

Financial markets can’t drive Canada’s climate transition alone

A crane operating in an open-pit mine against a grey sky with smoke billowing from a coal generating plant in the background.

Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

An overhead view of a combine harvester cutting a swath through a field of brown plants, alongside a tractor towing a grain trailer.

Community food systems are critical to Canada’s national security

White house in the background on a sloping lot covered with green grass and yellow flowers.

Making homes affordable while cutting emissions in Canada

Two plumes of black smoke and fire rise from an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates.

War in the Gulf will only accelerate oil’s long-term decline

Dozens of people stand around the mechanical room.

Ontario’s nuclear push risks another costly policy failure

Two cows photographed from below with a blue sky with puffy clouds in the background.

Food security needs to be part of Canada’s defence strategy

A windswept street corner with no sign of life.

When a major employer closes, the whole community feels it 

Rows of agricultural fields are partly submerged.

Why is climate adaptation so difficult for Canada?

Dozens of ministers stand in a family photo while a dozen photographers jockey for the shot in the foreground.

Can a U.S.-led critical minerals strategy deliver for climate and Canada?

Aerial view of a waterside rural First Nations community.

Court rulings confirm duty to provide housing and safe water for First Nations. Now what?

A large red sun behind an overpass with traffic in the foreground.

Why new EVs alone won’t deliver Canada’s biggest health gains

The man stands knee-deep in a clearing with tall grasses and an evergreen forest in the distance.

Why peatlands must be central to Canada’s climate and economic agendas

An American flag hangs on a wall of the metal structure.

Canada’s rising oil exports to U.S. refineries have become a risk

An immense dragline operates with a coal-powered generating station in the background. Smoke is coming out of a stack into a grey sky.

Canada missing opportunities to build community resilience amid global realignment

Hundreds of cars parked in a lot with containers and cranes in the background.

Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

Canada can lead the world in sovereign, sustainable, responsible AI

Multiple generations of little multi-coloured animated blobs.

Guardianship governance: representing future generations in decision-making

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