Advocates confronted Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) executives at a meeting in Ottawa yesterday, urging them to strengthen their approach to the climate crisis and Indigenous rights.

The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity. Upfront costs are just one of the obstacles.

When it comes to these apocalyptic visions, we should ask not whether AI will kill us, but who is to gain from our fears

Halton Region is one of the fastest growing communities in the country. Cost of living demands a Basic Income, while misogynous abuse in politics highlights the need for the Elect Respect Campaign.

The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.

We tried to imagine the scene inside CPPIB before our national pens...

The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, th...

A Critical Opioids Strategy would make Canada the world’s fentanyl superpower. After the last week’s oil and gas news, “let it marinate for a minute,” writes climate policy analyst Aaron Cosbey.

In Grade 10, Melody Silva began pressing her Saltspring Island, BC, school to provide plastic recycling and composting. To her frustration and despite a strong economic argument and widespread student...

It would be one thing if the arguments for expanding fossil fuels were geostrategic or economic. The public could weigh the projects and forecasts against protection of lives, species and livelihoods....

The decision means that Canadians will not recoup the $40 billion in public funds spent on the project during the 20 year lifespan of its oil shipping contracts, according to regulatory filings. After...

A Critical Opioids Strategy would make Canada the world’s fentanyl superpower. After the last week’s oil and gas news, “let it marinate for a minute,” writes climate policy analyst Aaron Cosbey.

Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

The white nationalist event happened days the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation and was called an act of Residential School Denialism.

Pacific leaders are seeking support for regional climate-finance options that give communities better access and stronger input into global decision making.

The controversy over the misuse of Jordan’s Principle has been used to justify cuts to services, when the real problem is a deep, systemic gap in services for First Nations children.

Prediction markets are becoming mainstream, bringing gambling risks and a novel source of political information to public life.

The environmental value of bike sharing depends partly on how often bikes are used to replace trips that would otherwise have been made by car.

Delgamuukw. Sixties Scoop. Bill C-31. Blood quantum. Appropriation. Two-Spirit. Tsilhqot’in. Status. TRC. RCAP. FNPOA. Pass and permit. Numbered Treaties. Terra nullius. The Great Peace… Are you famil...

Three experts on the need to keep challenging denialism

Section 141 of the act was used to surveil and intimidate Indigenous leaders and weaken Indigenous political organizing.

Canada participated in a ‘historic’ global moment for biodiversity. Experts say we’re not following through.

The politicking around a new west coast oil pipeline is almost done. Now the real work begins — and the real challenge reveals itself.

A global cabal of libertarian and right-wing organizations has fuelled the province’s independence movement.

After Rory White revealed a Toronto mayoral campaign is putting AI-written comments in its supporters' mouths, political insiders were quick to dismiss it as run-of-the-mill politicking. So why does i...

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Climate correspondent Chris Hatch sorts through the kaleidoscope of news, ideas, politics and culture on climate change solutions.

The plan would worsen labour conditions and make flying more expensive.

After a hearing yesterday about Trump’s Friday ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House campus, very early this morning—I was still awake writing yesterday’s letter—U.S.

For Ottawa's Senior residents. Get involved with your community and know what can be done when extreme weather events happen.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we check out some wearable art that makes air pollution highly visible; map out where and when this year's El Nino is expected to be a killer; and learn ...

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

Governments must stop treating climate action as merely an aspirational goal. It is an absolute imperative.

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Unpacking “the new climate denialism”