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

Carbon tax mayhem: everyone screams, but who is listening?

Carbon pricing is not a silver bullet, but it remains an essential tool in reducing emissions and steering the country toward a greener future.
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.
Water security needs water intelligence

You cannot manage what you do not measure, and we simply measure less about freshwater than we used to in Canada.
Canada’s siloed approach to natural disasters isn’t working

We need more systemic approaches to the ever-increasing threats of heat, drought, wildfires, floods, hailstorms, and other extreme events.
The politics of climate change are changing

Economists tell us such carbon taxes are the most efficient way to fight climate change. Yet, regular people will often see them as disproportionately harming the middle class.