As Justin Trudeau and the provincial and territorial premiers confront a summer season of relentless heat, drought and wildfires, it’s tempting to ask what’s on their to-do list. But that’s the wrong question for a country …
Lire le texteThis is what the age of climate intensity looks like. It’s shifting our conversations. Changing our lives. Taking over our streets. Casting an outsized shadow, for better or worse, on elections around the world. Analysts say …
Lire le texteOld habits are hard to break. Addictions are the toughest of all. So, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Houston in March 2017 and declared fealty to a fossil-fuel industry already entering its sunset years, …
Lire le texteWho could have predicted that 2018 would end with Canada’s oil patch and its political allies endorsing one of the most important action items on the road to a low-carbon energy future? “We don’t need handouts,” …
Lire le texteWith the coronavirus pandemic devastating the global economy and pushing world oil prices over a cliff, the federal government has two potential options in dealing with the oil and gas industry. It can give in …
Lire le texteJust over 40 years ago this week, I stumbled across a sheet of paper that reshaped my life and career and should have pointed toward a future without the risk of catastrophic climate change. On October …
Lire le texteOne of the early pieces of advice Canada is receiving as it prepares its strategy for renewed NAFTA negotiations with the United States is that when you’re up against a schoolyard bully who is determined …
Lire le texteTransCanada Corporation dodged a bullet last Thursday with its decision to cancel its controversial and redundant Energy East pipeline — not that the now-jubilant opponents that lined up against the $15.7-billion project should hold their …
Lire le texteDonald Trump may have done the world a big favour last Thursday afternoon when he announced he was pulling the United States out of the Paris agreement. In a single blurt, he largely muted three …
Lire le texteIn the aftermath of a disgraceful, disappointing United Nations climate change conference, the questions I’ve been hearing fall into two categories: What’s next? And if COP 25 was supposed to be our pathway to get …
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