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A bridge is in the foreground and a small passenger plane in the background amid an orange haze.

Canada’s buildings can do more than consume electricity

Water rushing through dam sluices.

Ontario’s new hydro rules give Indigenous equity real weight

Carney walks across the loading area in front of gantry cranes and a container ship alongside the port facilities.

Canada’s major-projects agenda has a carbon blind spot

Chart showing the volume of crude oil going to the Saint John refinery from other countries.

Getting Canadian oil to Atlantic Canada is in the national interest

Carney and Smith are in a warehouse with tall shelves and a tractor.

Financial markets can’t drive Canada’s climate transition alone

A crane operating in an open-pit mine against a grey sky with smoke billowing from a coal generating plant in the background.

Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

Three men sit, kneel or stand on the roof of a home covered in metal brackets.

Canada’s electricity strategy is overlooking its most powerful asset

Carney walks across a clearing in the forest. An excavator and roller sit nearby.

Canada’s industrial ambitions require robust environmental governance

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

The Big Nickel is a huge sculpture depicting the five-cent piece. It’s set on two round pillars, all of it made of nickel. Only the bottom half of the “nickel” is visible.

For critical minerals, it’s better to talk about SDGs than ESG

A small river snakes through a lush landscape with several ponds and swales, with a town, agricultural land, and mountains in the background.

Nature-based solutions are critical to dealing with climate change

Four litre-sized clear containers of brown water.

The federal government must tackle water pollution from the oilsands

Deux cochons dans une porcherie regardant la caméra avec d'autres cochons en arrière-plan.

It’s time for Ottawa to treat food production as a strategic asset

Budget needs to set an accelerated course for a low-carbon future

Solar panels planted in a field against a grey sky.

Reaching net-zero calls for nimbler, more transparent assessment of clean energy projects

Two hands holding wood pellets.

Canada should avoid the mistakes the U.K. made in biomass for energy

Unprecedented challenges for Canada’s mountains are driven by human activity

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