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Saskatchewan power line Alt text: Power line runs through the flat Prairie landscape.

Saskatchewan needs a framework for Crown infrastructure deals

Six people are gathered around the rhino on the ground.

Where does Canada stand on international environmental crime?

The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station stretches along the shore of Lake Ontario, with several dome-shaped reactor buildings under a cloudy sky, viewed from a rocky foreground by the water.

To enrich or not to enrich nuclear fuel: Canada’s dilemma

A wind turbine next to a coal-fired power plant with smokestacks belching smoke and power lines in the background.

Two uncomfortable climate truths

One of the signs held up says “help me now” and has a blue and green drawing of a crying planet earth.

Beyond carbon pricing: a fairer way to drive climate policy

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

G7 leaders including Justin Truddeau and Joe Biden lined up for a photo at the G& meeting hosted in Italy in 2024.

Canada’s G7 presidency in 2025 a chance to address two critical areas

Seen from the side of a length of rail line, the locomotive is yellow with an illustration of a waving American flag painted on its side.

A new trade policy for the “geopolitical turn”

How Canada can better adapt to extreme weather

A two-lane highway leads down a hill toward a flat area surrounded by snow-peaked mountains. In the foreground is covered in dense patches of evergreens. Alongside the road is yellowing brush.

Is Canada’s critical-minerals strategy a green shift or greenwashing?

Three trucks with cargo containers drive into an area with stacks of containers.

The problem with low-carbon fuels for road freight

A paramedic stands among eight or nine patients in a hallway.

The end-of-life care, environment and health system ‘polycrisis’ needs a new approach

Dark mist swirls on a white sky, with dark mountains all around. Dark lichen-covered boulders sit amid golden tall grass in the foreground.

Looking North: Pension funds are key to developing Canada’s critical minerals

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?

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