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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

Co-creating cities through Indigenous knowledge and nature-based solutions

Eight people hold the edges of a banner that says “We are here to protect water.” The banner is orange, blue, red and white, and has an illustration of a fish with a heart.

Environmental impact reviews should take a more regional perspective

Ottawa has opportunity to create an effective energy retrofit program for low-income households

Public transit in Quebec: looking beyond the next election

A brown paper bag filled with vegetables is laid out on a dark grey stone background. Visible are a bottle of milk, loaf of bread, lettuce, an avocado, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, mushroom, lemon, orange, eggs, broccoli and an apple.

A grocer’s code of conduct isn’t a silver bullet. The right to food comes first.

The screen is a large billboard sitting high above the ground next to a few tall buildings along a tree-lined street. In the distance are two temples with curved roofs with a green-covered mountain behind them.

Canada has to be more than a “bridgehead” to North America for South Korea

A white bus drives through the snowy streets of Montreal

Follow the U.S. lead on inter-regional bus service

Canada needs to start seeing Africa as a collaborator

A huge pile of plastic containers of various shapes and colors is compacted in a landfill for export.

Where does our plastic waste go?

A lone figure with a tank strapped to his back walks in the midst of a vast expanse of green rice fields with a few trees in the background.

Canadian expertise could help secure Vietnam’s threatened Mekong River Delta

A young boy on a bike rides past a three-storey light-grey stucco apartment building with balconies. The windows are small and square. Hedges line the first floor.

Why Canada needs a rental-unit energy report card

Support for sovereignty in Quebec: the role of identity, culture and language

Pierre Poilievre on stage speaking into a microphone wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan “Axe the Tax.”

A Conservative government may axe the carbon tax but then may have to bring it back

The growing burden of sustainability standards

Two roofers are bent over the plywood-covered roofs of a set of two-storey townhouses clad in pressboard, some of them covered in deep-blue and white membrane material.

Ontario’s Keeping Energy Costs Down Act will do the exact opposite

A non-descript steel box painted in two tones of green that appears to be about the size of an extra-tall two-car garage with a yellow ‘caution’ cone in front of it.

Ontario’s nuclear option is the wrong path to meet green energy targets

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