Pipelines and planes: when does ‘bold’ start, Prime Minister Carney?
Many hoped the new prime minister would break from a timid, risk-averse, national tradition, assert our economic independence as promised, and exploit our natural resources sustainably. So far, it hasn’t looked that way.
Carney makes climate commitment, but can he keep it?
While Mark Carney’s public pledge on Paris obligations is welcome, it brings to mind the old saying about the road to hell being paid with good intentions.
Alberta MOU still a ‘good deal’ say Liberal MPs, despite loss of ‘star factor’ in Quebec with Guilbeault’s resignation
Green Leader Elizabeth May says the Liberals’ situation in Quebec ‘is very much changed’ by the departure of longtime environmentalist and cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault.
Canada’s G7 leadership: the ambition is there, but is the budget?
Instead of acknowledging the moral imperative of reducing global inequality, the government has chosen to further cut an already paltry foreign aid budget by $2.7-billion over the next four years.
The federal 2 Billion Trees program has been cut, what’s next?
As is, the government’s ‘investment budget’ leaves a nature deficit, which chips away at the foundation of a strong Canada. We must repair the harms caused by our collective actions. Happily, nature’s regenerative arc compounds investments.
Carney walks a timid line on climate instead of full speed ahead
The longer Prime Minister Mark Carney tries to play both sides of the street—and this game has been going on for decades—the farther behind we fall, environmentally and economically. He must know that.
‘Empty hands’ at COP30 and LNG ‘nation-building’ project pick signifies climate backsliding, say advocates
Prime Minister Mark Carney won’t attend the UN’s climate change convention in Brazil, and announced an LNG project as part of his next tranche of projects being referred to the Major Projects Office.
Carney is unwilling to expend any political capital to make the case for Canadian climate leadership
It’s time for Mark Carney to recapture that mojo that transformed him from a grey banker to an internationally renown climate champion. Not to burnish his own reputation, but to secure a better future for all of us.
Swapping the tragedy of the horizon for the expediency of today
The recent budget does little to dispel the confusion about what Canada’s new prime minister stands for when it comes to the country’s climate policy.
COP 30 unlikely to shift political will
Money is tight, wars are a huge distraction, and the climate has become unfashionable, so we’ll just have to wait and hope for better times.
