Canada must lead the fight against plastic pollution
To stem the tide of plastic pollution, Canada must phase out hard-to-recycle single-use plastics and prioritize reusable, refillable alternatives.
What Canada needs in its next prime minister
In the future post-Justin Trudeau era, Canada will need someone who understands what the masses feel economically, who recognizes we’re at a perilous moment in our planet’s evolution.
Always leave them wanting more: Fraser tops All Politics Poll as he looks to exit federal politics
The results of The Hill Times’ 2024 year-end poll are in. Liberal MP Sean Fraser scores a hat trick and takes the ‘Most Valuable Politician’ title for the second year in a row, while Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre divides respondents.
Parliament gridlock must end to tackle Canada’s biodiversity crisis
Critical legislation to combat the biodiversity crisis is being sidelined as MPs bicker.
Liberals hear health, budget, environment concerns from July to October, with Conservatives targeted for finance, transport
Federal carbon tax is ‘devastating’ to Western Canadian food producers, said the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities’ president.
‘They need more local resources’: greater co-ordination needed in wildfire response, Senate committee hears
While well below the 16 million hectares burned in the record-setting 2023 season, this year’s wildfire season was still the second-worst in terms of area burned since 1995.
Canadians deserve long-term energy solutions, not short-term fixes
This winter, the government needs to remove taxes on lower-emission home energy sources like propane.
Environment Policy Briefing
Turning the corner
In Canada the meager momentum of climate mitigation is stalling out. As the gloom of winter sets in it’s easy to be depressed, but in defeat there are seeds of future mitigation success if we wake up and get serious about what is at stake.
Climate adaptation is as important as climate mitigation
Most of the time, we emphasize the importance of fixing an issue by addressing its root cause; otherwise, we are likely to see the issue happening again.
