Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Youth, health, and environmental groups are celebrating a legal victory

A letter to Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath says forced development in Elfrida and other rural areas would “interfere” with traditional territory rights.

A summer info session on Alberta’s pipeline left a chill in the room for First Nations.

Last year the government announced that it was scrapping the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard (EVAS). To replace the Standard (which would have made

It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered

Canada’s oil sands are on track for a big increase in greenhouse gas emissions, even with the Pathways carbon storage project moving forward, an environmental economist says.

Multi-billion-dollar Pathways project will capture the equivalent of 6.5% of oil sands’ current production emissions in 2035, and won’t touch the 80% of emissions in each barrel that are exported—if t...

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL New Report Shows Canada is the Worst Public Financier of Fossil Fuels in the G20 Toronto | Treaty Lands

How the finances of Canada’s government-owned pipeline may look better than they are.

Doug Ford's government is betting big on nuclear energy. Danielle Smith's government prefers natural gas. Neither seems to want to do the actual conservative thing: letting the market decide.

(Updated to include link to Transport Canada survey and our explainer blog. Read more below.) Reading the headlines, you would think that whether

The measures include a solar panel “eco-fee” and standardized rules for locating wind and solar projects as the province delays a playbook for energy developers to 2028.

‘You’re worried about a grasshopper jumping across a highway’: Internal documents show scientists reject Doug Ford’s environmental study of the 413 Highway

Reading the headlines, you would think that whether Toronto’s small Island Airport becomes Heathrow-on-the-Harbour is completely up to Premier Ford, and

85 environmental and Indigneous groups call on Canada's federal parties to protect freshwater security and health from Trump's threats.

Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault says he was ‘becoming a tool to justify some of the things the government is doing,’ as he leaves the Liberals

Ontario’s decision to award three new contracts for 640 megawatts (MW) of battery storage capacity—and reject new natural gas plants that were also in the running—shows that gas can no longer win a co...

Statement by Keith Brooks, Programs Director, Environmental Defence Toronto | Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, At its AGM on June 11, the Toronto Port Authori...

Asking the public to weigh in on the expansion comes as a federal byelection looms in the Toronto riding of Beaches—East York, where a loss would cut the Liberal majority to just one seat.

Postponing a $130-per-tonne industrial carbon price in Alberta from 2030 to 2040 is a massive policy concession that will undercut federal climate goals and imperil jobs in the clean economy, experts ...

The prime minister plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species and pollute waterways in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects, Althia Raj writes.

Toronto | Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee,

The controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) on fossil fuel development between the federal and Alberta governments has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis, with the fossil companies it was mean...

A group of environmentally-concerned Pickering residents fought to protect more than 9,000 acres of federally-owned farmland on Toronto's eastern edge. Now, they say it's at risk from private develope...

The Town of Wasaga Beach says a section of protected piping plover habitat was mistakenly disturbed earlier this month, a day after environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit alleging damage to the ...

Environmental groups have launched a federal court lawsuit seeking urgent action to stop development at Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, warning that critical habitat for the endangered piping plover is ...

ENGOs launch urgent Federal Court challenge under Species at Risk Act to prevent irreversible critical habitat damage.

Federal government will decide this spring about fate of land in Pickering

Proposed under Bill 5, Ontario’s Species Conservation Act is officially in force, leaving many at-risk plants and animals, like redside dace and barn owls, unprotected

We need to bring back a science-based provincial endangered species law.

The Ontario government has abandoned the Province's endangered and threatened fish and birds. It is up to the federal government to step in.

Tim Gray will be available to provide insight and expert analysis from the Environmental Defence team on the release of Ontario’s 2026 Provincial Budget, which is set to be unveiled tomorrow, March 26...

New analysis from InfluenceMap finds that the Canadian oil and gas industry's advocacy campaigns against climate policies in the sector resulted in the federal government withdrawing key climate regul...

Ontario won’t publish its plans to protect wolves, butterflies and bats, after Bill 5 dropped requirement for endangered species recovery planning

In a world where most energy is generated domestically from renewables, would the same threat trigger the same global shock?

The Portlands Gas Plant, which opened in 2009, will be allowed to continue operating until 2046 — but concerned residents say there should have been a public consultation before the licence was renewe...

A claim that regulatory uncertainty is behind postponing an $8.25-billion oil sands expansion is the latest sign that the industry isn’t taking its climate pollution seriously —or it's playing hardbal...

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The industries of tomorrow demand abundant, low-carbon and reliable power

Residents in Olds, Alberta, are organizing to block a 1.4-gigawatt gas power plant slated for construction directly across from their homes.

A new app gets around bot bans by recruiting real people to post political messages generated by AI.

Projected cost overruns and profit-taking by developers could leave Canadian LNG priced out of weakening global markets, undermining Ottawa’s export-focused energy strategy, says Investors for Paris C...

Here’s an idea for the Greater Toronto Area's housing crisis: make more market-oriented homes available at a size, location and price point that many would be interested in buying.

The Ford government is under pressure from municipalities, political opposition and local advocates to pause commercial water-taking permits after the Region of Waterloo hit a water capacity limit so ...

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98% of public feedback opposed Ontario’s plan to drop provincial park designation and protections on a portion of Wasaga Beach

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