People power: Canadians willing to shell out for clean energy
Energy issues can be a polarizing force in Canadian politics, all too often pitting region against region, or opening up divisions between rural and urban. So when we kicked off the Citizen Dialogues on Canada’s Energy Future in September, we didn’t know where these discussions would take us. The idea was to bring together randomly […]
Canada needs to think bigger to see true growth in its cleantech industry
The worldwide movement to fight climate change is electrifying unprecedented momentum in the global cleantech market. This momentum is characterized by a global race to innovate, develop, verify, and bring solutions to market. Canada has the potential to lead the pack. There’s no question we have the talent; Canada’s clean technology sector continues to punch […]
These provinces led in economic growth. They also price carbon pollution
Opponents of carbon pollution pricing have had a busy year, incessantly warning of the severe economic damage such policies will purportedly cause. Thankfully, proponents of clean growth have had a busy year too. Alberta wrapped up its consultation process on output-based allocations for large industrial emitters, Manitoba and Nova Scotia announced new carbon pricing systems, and the […]
New Senate committee to place spotlight on Arctic
A new Senate committee dedicated to studying issues affecting Canada’s North, is planning to “hit the ground running” when the Upper Chamber resumes at the end of January, says the new group’s deputy chair. Approved by the Senate on Sept. 27, the new Special Committee on the Arctic held its first meeting on Dec. 13, […]
Why the world needs a little less Canada in 2018
Barack Obama, then United States president, told Parliament in 2016 that: “The world needs more Canada.” Banners in Chapters bookstores proclaimed the same message in 2017, by way of celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary. But considering the harm to nature that Canadians cause, the inconvenient truth is that the world needs less Canada. Indeed, if the world’s other species could vote on which humans should be voted off Turtle Island, Canadians would be […]
Does columnist Crane know something we don’t?
Re: “Trudeau’s biggest challenge over next several years will be to cut GHGs,” (The Hill Times, David Crane, Jan. 8). Many thanks for David Crane’s recent opinion piece which highlighted the significant gap between the ambition of the federal government’s climate change rhetoric and its present policy. The sad fact is that the escalating carbon price floor set out in […]
Canada won’t make progress on GHGs if expansion of oil sands continues
Re: “Trudeau’s biggest challenge over next several years will be to cut GHGs,” (The Hill Times, David Crane, Jan. 8). There is no denying it. Canada will not make progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions if exploration and expansion of the oil sands continues, including new pipelines to export bitumen to foreign markets. Reports from the […]
Trudeau’s biggest challenge over next several years will be to cut GHGs
TORONTO—There’s probably no more difficult challenge facing the Trudeau government over the next several years than delivering on the country’s pledge to cut our greenhouse gas emissions—the promise made by the Trudeau government at the Paris Summit on climate change in December 2015. Canada’s story, since signing the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, has been one […]
The full interview: Perry Bellegarde on running again, ‘closing the gap,’ and more
It’s been a busy three years for Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde. Since he was elected as national representative for the influential association of chiefs in 2014, the Liberals have swept to power in Ottawa, promising a reset in the relationship between Indigenous communities and the federal government, and increased financial support […]
Coral reefs and geo-engineering
Whenever I get the chance, I go diving. The whole family are divers, right down to the grand-children: it’s one of the pretexts we use to get together. And we all know the coral reefs are dying. There are still healthy reefs, and even after they have been bleached they can recover—but only until the […]
