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Multiple generations of little multi-coloured animated blobs.

Guardianship governance: representing future generations in decision-making

Close-up shots of the group of young people and children standing in front of a stone building during an outdoor public gathering.

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

Mark Carney speaking at a podium, viewed from the side, with dark background.

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

Dirt roads ribbon a brown landscape in the foreground with a large terraced open pit cut into the ground in the background.

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

In a glass-walled room in the factory, a yellow and black robotic arm places a dozen or so small silver cylinders into a large, flat yellow surface with hundreds of holes that hold cylinders. Several dozen cylinders are already sitting in the holes.

What will happen when all those EV batteries reach their end of life?

Towards regulating AI : A natural, labour and capital resources perspective

Hundreds of plants grow inside a white-walled, windowless room with mechanical equipment installed along the walls and ceiling.

A clean-cannabis manifesto

The value of natural assets must be measured for truly sustainable development

To be a policy optimist, try some rose-coloured realism

Nuclear energy would be a clean win for remote and northern communities

Scale-up renewable energy co-operatives to energize the nation

A brick school several stories high has probably close to a hundred panels covering its flat roof. They glisten in the sun. A parking lot surrounds the school, and adjacent to it in the distance is a green field bordered with a small forest and a densely packed suburb of many homes.

Canada needs to accelerate its transition to renewable energy

Say no to a $15-billion slush fund for the oil and gas industry

Public inquiry into foreign interference in elections should target Big Oil

A worker installs solar panels on the roof of a house in Scugog, Ontario.

Governments need to better reflect affordability concerns in climate policies

Addressing the climate crisis requires a diplomatic and global finance overhaul

Why green construction is needed to affordably increase housing supply

Focus on renewables, not nuclear, to fuel Canada’s electric needs

An overhead view of black oil sands.

Foreign-owned oil companies in Canada hold key to climate change

How to manage our growing pile of electronic waste

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