Canada’s green jobs strategy needs more than good intentions
The federal government lacks a data-driven method for identifying how workers in legacy sectors can transition into clean-economy jobs and where the real gaps lie.
Planetary limits: why Canada’s next nation-building project must be grounded in reality
We have already crossed seven of the nine planetary boundaries scientists have identified that together maintain global stability.
Federal environmental impact assessments are in even more jeopardy
The federal environment assessment tool was always limited, with powerful enemies fighting back well before the Carney government wanted to curtail its usage.
Climate advisers ask feds to put Net-Zero Advisory Body on ‘pause,’ say they can’t fulfill mandate in ‘skeleton state’
Following the December resignation of two members, the remaining four say they need six new appointees, clarity around their budget, and a pause of activities after limited direction from the government ‘significantly reduced’ the scope of their work.
Brazil: a catalyst of plurilateralism
Brazil has demonstrated its ability to mobilize states and non-state actors around specific issues and solutions, engaging partners in the global south and north, the west and the east. Canada could learn from this.
Buried in the MOU: a licence to lie
When our government rewrites truth-in-advertising rules, it not only impairs consumer choice and dupes investors, but it also rigs the market to favour big polluters over genuinely green industries.
A Faustian climate bargain
Canada is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. However, given the trajectory we are on (planning a series of mega-projects that will have a significant impact on the environment), the government appears to be abdicating its responsibilities on this file.
It’s time to double down on ocean protection
Three years after the Kunming-Montreal Agreement, Canada needs a plan to protect its waters.
2026: Another year on the edge for Carney and Canada
For all the Liberals’ high points since they dodged what was shaping up as certain electoral defeat, the year ahead looms as an even more difficult minefield.
Geoengineering for grown-ups
We need to use every viable technique to hold the average global temperature down while we work frantically to end our emissions.
