Policy Options

Canada is the world’s fourth largest producer of both conventional and unconventional crude oil. Unlike most other major producers, Canada has essentially one export market: the United States. Crude...

The federal government has recently announced that it intends to seek credit toward Canada’s emissions reduction targets for the GHG-reducing effects of Canadian exports. It argues that supplying Canadian...

This 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,...

Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, would protect a remote and unique region in northern British Columbia from the risk of catastrophic spills by prohibiting tankers carrying more...

On May 11, 2019, Canada announced a series of decisions on seven halogenated flame retardants. Troublingly, the government decided to ban only two individual flame retardants and to leave...

(Cet article a été traduit en anglais.) Un projet d’infrastructure de transport et de liquéfaction du gaz naturel pourrait voir le jour au Québec. Ce projet, qui vise à...

Earlier this month, the Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources passed 187 amendments to Bill C-69, the federal government’s attempt to restore some credibility to,...

Horses dominated transportation for more than 6,000 years, even after steam-powered automobiles came along in 1769. It was the invention of the internal combustion engine (ICE) that revolutionized transportation...

Back in 1993, Canada made a decision that was little noticed domestically but was felt around the world. In a cost-cutting measure, Canada severed ties with the United Nations...

(Ce texte a été traduit en anglais.) Santé Canada a mis sept ans à évaluer les risques que les pesticides néonicotinoïdes font courir aux pollinisateurs. Face au consensus scientifique...