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Guardianship governance: representing future generations in decision-making

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Children’s rights: How to make justice truly accessible

Person at a laptop handling a stylus while a caption overlaying the image says "buy sell carbon credit."

One simple fix for Canada’s industrial carbon pricing systems

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Carney’s industrial bet: Building Canada’s future while cutting the public service

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What 50 years of buried data tell us about Canada’s mining oversight

The metal structure is several storeys high with a metal ladder on one side leading to the top.

What is going on with Alberta’s climate-change strategy?

An overhead view of a tanker stopped in open water along the B.C. coast.

Rethinking Canada’s oil tanker ban for a new era of reconciliation

An aerial view of Jasper, with several sections of the town now gravel pads.

Canada’s economic success is at risk from weak climate adaptation

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

Two yachts are berthed at a marina at night. The water between the two hulls is lit up by lights from the waterline of the boat on the left, giving it a bright turquoise colour. Both boats are white fibreglass with several levels of decks. Pot lights on each boat cast a warm glow.

Mark Carney has given us a sensible next step after the carbon tax. We need to take it.

A line graph showing 54 per cent of young people think they are worse off than their parents at the same age versus 25 per cent who think they are better off.

Five public-opinion trends to watch in 2025

Three workers stand atop a large pylon with a cloudy sky in the background.

Priorities may change, but energy efficiency remains a solution

Classifying risk to prepare for disruptive threats

A broken winding highway with a small marina with a boat sitting on land inside one of the highway curves. The ocean is in the background.

What can help save nature and increase climate resilience? Better accounting.

A crowd fills the street with some people holding signs. One large rectangular sheet of canvas is held up by three people. It says “Minister Freeland, stop funding climate chaos.” Yellow and orange flames are depicted as enveloping the last two words.

How to cut through the divisions hampering climate action

Evaluating Canada’s pledge to triple nuclear capacity

The tunnel vision of Doug Ford and François Legault

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