Canada fails to meet key principle of nuclear safety: Ottawa activist
A March 2025 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency flagged a serious problem in Canada’s nuclear governance regime. Canada has not incorporated the fundamental safety principle of justification into its legal framework, despite being urged to do so by an international peer review team in 2019. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) principle of justification in nuclear […]
Bill to fast-track major projects could boost GDP, but raises environmental concerns
The One Canadian Economy Act seeks to to remove interprovincial trade barriers, ease labour mobility and streamline the federal regulatory processes for major projects.
The stars are aligned: now Canada must deliver on its natural resources
If we don’t seize this moment, we may not get another. Because if Canada doesn’t step up, others will.
Canada should be a mining superpower, too
Being a mining superpower isn’t just about mining the most. It’s also about having the ability to supply the material needs of our allies in a reliable and secure manner.
Governments and Indigenous communities have historic opportunity to fast track projects
Governments and proponents must grasp this reality: Indigenous groups, while enthusiastic about development, need fair access and meaningful participation.
Being an energy superpower in 2025 means going clean
Investing in clean technologies and supply chains is now an economic imperative globally. Of Canada’s 10 largest non-U.S. trade partners, all have net-zero commitments and carbon pricing systems, and roughly half apply carbon border adjustments on imports and have domestic EV requirements.
The generational imperative for Canada to embrace its resource advantage
Liberals cannot afford to simply tolerate Canada’s resource economy. They must champion it.
Giving Canadian critical minerals ‘a reasonable chance’
While Canada has long been a major producer of copper, nickel, zinc and others on the critical minerals list, our path to getting other high priority critical minerals–like lithium and rare earth elements–‘produced in Canada’ may be a rocky one.
Before we get our resources to market, we need to make sure those markets actually want them
Canada was built on forestry, but if we want to ensure that that industry and the over 200,000 people employed in it can continue to thrive, things are going to have to change.
Trust can’t be legislated, but it can be built
First Nations must be included as business partners from the outset, and it’s a question of laying out a framework for how to move projects forward with their involvement.
