Liberals propose fast-tracking motion for major projects bill
Bill C-5 would come to a final vote on June 20 under the terms of the motion.
Nation building isn’t just about speed—it’s about vision
Bill C-5 is walking backwards into the future if it aims to support an outdated and expensive fossil fuel industry while moving in the direction of more climatic and environmental breakdown.
The urgency of confronting a warming world remains
As Mark Carney battles Donald Trump’s trade wars and confronts western alienation, he will also have to lead Canada’s heighten effort in the energy transition and prepare the country for the baked-in impacts of climate change.
How will the Carney government navigate between fighting climate change and bending to corporate priorities? Only time will tell
A 2024 UN Environment Program report concluded, under a status quo scenario, Earth is on track to reach an approximate 2.7°C increase in planetary warming by 2100. There is a possibility that the world could experience 2°C before the end of this decade according to the World Meteorological Association.
Visions of a gold rush in expanded oil exports fly in the face of a decades-old reality
The potential for a conduit to load oil tankers in the dangerous waters of the northern B.C. coast actually ended more than three decades ago.
Ottawa’s climate adaptation plans ‘incomplete,’ and ‘neither systematic nor comprehensive,’ says Environment Commissioner DeMarco
Canada released its National Adaptation Strategy two years ago—in that time, only one of the strategy’s three ‘key’ components has been established, but with ‘gaps,’ the report finds.
Wildfires burning, and Canada still needs a national response agency
The argument still stands today: there are jurisdictional issues over emergency responses in Canada, but there needs to be better coordination between the federal, provincial and municipal governments and a better emergency preparedness plan. The federal government needs to establish one central emergency management agency for the entire country. As well, there should be one central agency for all volunteer organizations, as Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux suggested in last week in the House.
Carney can make a huge difference on climate change, and he should make it a priority
Waking up and transforming our economy must mean powering down, not biz lust to be an energy superpower, sufficiency not abundance, a managed decline, not an energy transition, and societal and economic evolution, not more extra-activist mega-projects.
‘The government has idly sat by’: NDP MPs say Indigenous communities need federal support as wildfires devastate Western Canada
New Democrats say Ottawa’s wildfire response fails to ‘uphold the dignity and well-being of First Nations,’ which they say are under federal jurisdiction.
Climate policy is economic policy
An energy vision for Canada that includes achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is needed to shape our actions, policies, and investments.
