Fossil fuels

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?

Half a dozen workers in protective clothing put pieces of frozen fish into square white plastic pouches.

Voluntary corporate accountability doesn’t work. Canada needs to mandate it.

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

A blue light covers a bank of tall, narrow electronic computing boxes with wires coming out of the top.

Canada’s AI ambitions depend on energy security and critical resources

In bright turquoise, red-orange, yellow and green, an illustration that is a jumble of faceless people, robots, mechanical arms, a pencil, a pointing finger and a hand on a laptop.

Only targeted industrial policy will fulfil Canada’s value-adding potential 

Net-zero advisory body needs to sharpen its analysis

How Carney can use policy to unite the country

Twin elbowed pipes with “natural gas” written on yellow signs.

Banking on LNG exports is a high-risk gamble for Canada’s future growth

The tanker is docked alongside another ship at a jetty. 

A day late and a dollar short: Exporting Canadian natural gas to the EU

Cranes position green-coloured pipes with mountains in the background.

There is an alternative to trying to pipeline our way out of Trump’s crisis

The building has a long corridor with high ceilings, brick walls, two storeys of tall windows with many mullions, and a ceiling with metal pieces criss-crossing. Nine of the metal rotors fill the space. Each one is large and round, with green metal boxes lining the edge. They look like large spinning tops.  

The three-legged stool is the way to net zero by 2050

The global energy transition could disrupt 10 per cent of Canadians

Before we “axe the tax,” a quick lesson in history and physics

Two yachts are berthed at a marina at night. The water between the two hulls is lit up by lights from the waterline of the boat on the left, giving it a bright turquoise colour. Both boats are white fibreglass with several levels of decks. Pot lights on each boat cast a warm glow.

Mark Carney has given us a sensible next step after the carbon tax. We need to take it.

A crowd fills the street with some people holding signs. One large rectangular sheet of canvas is held up by three people. It says “Minister Freeland, stop funding climate chaos.” Yellow and orange flames are depicted as enveloping the last two words.

How to cut through the divisions hampering climate action

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Siloed climate data needs to be opened up and shared

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