Build Canada Homes must prioritize ‘right’ kind of housing, affordability and green energy, say advocates
The Build Canada Homes initiative, which aims to double national housing output to 500,000 new homes per year, is expected to launch this fall.
Canada’s water security strategy starts with the Canada Water Agency
The newly formed agency offers Ottawa a tool to deliver, but it must be empowered with a clear mandate and the resources to match.
Canada should not need more red flags to prepare for extreme weather
The federal government needs to adjust course by continuing to fight GHG emissions while more fully embracing adaptation. Slowing the rate of climate change will buy time to adapt to weather that will be increasingly extreme.
Canada overlooking a key aspect in adapting to climate change at our peril
While not always visible, strong governance arrangements play a vital role in changing systems and building resilience at scale.
Feds must consider oil and gas conflicts for Canada Pension Plan appointees
It’s imperative the two spots fill a troubling gap in the current board: a complete lack of identified climate expertise, and an overabundance of oil and gas entanglements.
Ignoring the planetary crisis won’t make it go away
You might think that this situation would cause alarm amongst our political and other leaders, but you would be wrong. Like a bunch of ostriches, they seem intent on burying their heads in the sand.
A nation-building project that will protect the environment and our health
A transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy has the potential to create a safer and healthier environment, less suffering from the ongoing effects of continued greenhouse gas emissions, and a stronger economy driven by the new jobs created.
Canada must join forces with allies to stop the pollution threatening our health and environment
As most of the world moves away from plastic, Canada must not lock into a bygone economy and industry.
Carney should heed his own advice from his bestselling book, Value(s)
Clean-energy projects—building out the grid, supporting renewable and other clean-tech investment, and financing efficiency—can deliver on affordability, growth, and sustainability goals. Carney and his key ministers should keep a copy of Value(s) by their bedsides.
In the midst of a national climate crisis, Carney’s government falls silent
The words ‘climate change’ have barely passed Carney’s lips, nor did they feature in communiqués from June’s G7 summit in Alberta. It has been left to premiers, mayors, and Indigenous leaders to hold press conferences, comfort evacuees, and highlight the frightening reality of more intense, more widespread, more merciless fires.
