Policy Options

This is what the age of climate intensity looks like. It’s shifting our conversations. Changing our lives. Taking over our streets. Casting an outsized shadow, for better or worse,...

Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, would protect a remote and unique region in northern British Columbia from the risk of catastrophic spills by prohibiting tankers carrying more...

On May 11, 2019, Canada announced a series of decisions on seven halogenated flame retardants. Troublingly, the government decided to ban only two individual flame retardants and to leave...

(This article has been translated from French.) A natural gas liquefaction and transportation infrastructure project may see the light of day in Quebec. The project, which would export natural gas from...

Earlier this month, the Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources passed 187 amendments to Bill C-69, the federal government’s attempt to restore some credibility to,...

Horses dominated transportation for more than 6,000 years, even after steam-powered automobiles came along in 1769. It was the invention of the internal combustion engine (ICE) that revolutionized transportation...

Back in 1993, Canada made a decision that was little noticed domestically but was felt around the world. In a cost-cutting measure, Canada severed ties with the United Nations...

(This article has been translated from French.) Health Canada has taken seven years to review the risks posed to pollinators by neonicotinoids. Given global scientific consensus on the negative impact...

Des inondations, parfois de grande ampleur, frappent partout dans le monde ― et ce depuis longtemps ―, notamment dans les territoires urbanisés. De nombreuses villes se sont justement développées...

Given the ongoing polarization over the effectiveness of carbon taxes to move the needle on greenhouse gases (GHGs), it makes sense to look to British Columbia, now that it...