Some of Canada’s planned major projects are coming up against consent obligations with First Nations, while the federal government offers Indigenous groups a 15% stake in the Trans Mountain Pipeline t...

The Toronto-based Trellis Fund has announced the latest in its annual series of grants to four women who are studying to enter Canada’s sustainability work force.

Seven news stories that may have been crowded out of your news feed this week but we wanted you not to miss out on.

Climate adaptation is often framed as a technical challenge: stronger infrastructure, better climate data, resilient buildings, and emergency preparedness. But experts are calling attention to a more ...

Critics are already calling out climate policy weaknesses underlying the upcoming COP31 annual climate summit, as a flagship initiative leaves out a clean energy commitment and the summit’s hosts cont...

The Toronto-based Trellis Fund has announced the latest in its annual series of grants to four women who are studying to enter Canada’s sustainability work force.

Councillors in a rural Alberta municipality have stalled a new conflict of interest bylaw, even as they face criticism over the lack of transparency in their $70-billion deal with celebrity investor K...

The Carney government’s plan to subsidize the new West Coast Pipeline and roll back environmental protections is harming its standing with voters in a dozen key ridings in Ontario, according to pollin...

As Canadian politicians were pitching their major projects plans to foreign investors at a first-of-its-kind summit in Toronto, First Nations youth in Ottawa were making their own pitch to Canadians t...

Greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are on track to fall this year due to the massive disruption of global oil and gas supplies brought on by the continuing conflict in the Strait of Ho...

Live news show highlighting the thinkers and doers behind nation-building ideas that aren't on the agenda at the Canada Investment Summit.

Ukraine’s biggest state-owned oil and gas company Naftogaz has signed a preliminary deal with what may be one of the most speculative, early-stage liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects on offer ...

With as many as 250 of the world’s top investors converging on Toronto next week for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, news reports say pipelines, nuclear plants, railways, AI dat...

A slew of opinion pieces suggests Ontario's Ford government is going the wrong way by ripping out bike lanes that cost Toronto $27 million to build, and raising questions about whether it should be fo...

Two Alberta landowners say the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is breaking the law by not collecting enough money from industry to cover cleanup costs for a ballooning number of orphan oil and gas site...

Climate Solutions to Build Canada Better will take place on Thursday, September 10, 2026, at 7:00 PM EDT. The webinar is being held ahead of the Canada Investment Summit and will focus on practical cl...

With the federal government kicking off a design competition to revitalize the Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, a local architecture firm is already on record with a concept fo...

The science of climate change is dire. Same as it’s ever been, just more so. When the going gets tough, understanding what to do next becomes even more important.

Marking the return to school for millions of students and educators, this week’s SHIFT highlights some basic mathematical problems plaguing investments in some of Canada’s biggest fossil fuel projects...

Canada’s National Electricity Strategy is meant to double the capacity of Canada’s grid, but the plan needs to shift away from polluting fossil fuels and expensive nuclear power to a much stronger foc...

A leading UN agency's report confirms humanity will overshoot the 1.5°C global warming threshold but understates the potential to phase out fossil fuels and bring emissions to net-zero by 2050, indepe...

Errors including botched currency conversions led the British Columbia government to overstate its forecasted natural gas revenues by about $1.46 billion over five fiscal years, officials confirmed on...

The economic case is strong for a national electricity grid in Canada that links everyone to clean, affordable power. Today, provinces trade more power with the United States than they do with one ano...

There’s no likely need for Alberta’s proposed West Coast Pipeline, as the rise of electric vehicles and a faster global energy transition drive down future oil demand and prices at a faster rate than ...

Even as she insists Meta’s massive new artificial intelligence data centre north of Edmonton won’t raise electricity prices, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is advising concerned Albertans to “lock in ...

What if you hosted a high-powered summit to try to bring new investment to your country, but some of your best prospects never showed up...because you never invited them?

The death toll in Nepal has reached more than 540, and 1,300 people are missing, amid concerns that a glacial lake formed by the buildup of debris could trigger new flooding.

As a Canadian company appears to sidestep international law and works in tandem with the Trump administration for a deep-sea mining licence, legal experts and activists are urging Prime Minister Mark ...

Two Innu band councils in Quebec have rejected last week’s non-binding agreement between Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the federal government to hugely expand hydroelectric generation along t...

Ottawa and Manitoba are eyeing an expanded Arctic trade route, including for potential fossil fuel exports to Europe, through the Port of Churchill as sea ice declines. But experts told The Energy Mix...

A new map of data centres in Alberta shows proposed AI facilities demanding more than 100 times the electricity used by existing ones in the province, a spike that comes with significant emissions imp...

Donald Trump’s expanding trade war could be a catalyst for Canada to speed up its energy transition, diversify its trade, and reinforce its economic sovereignty—as long as federal and provincial gover...

At outdoor movie nights across British Columbia this summer, the power behind the screen, the speakers, and even the popcorn machine came from a pair of electric pickup trucks parked nearby.

There are no guarantees. (There never are.) But PM Mark Carney’s latest move to protect Canadian sovereignty could open a path to the real nation-building projects we need and want.

If you're looking to build national unity, sovereignty, and resilience, where would you focus your investments? And where would you invite your deep-pocketed friends to invest? This week's top storie...

Canadians won’t be able to respond to climate change without taking control of our own economy and confronting inequality, Social Capital Partners Jon Shell says in a feature interview.

As another overheated summer devastates swathes of the northern hemisphere, sustainability experts in both Canada and the UK are urging policymakers, financial markets, and investors to act on “irrefu...

Canadian drivers will shell out an extra $53.8 billion in fuel costs, and additional “climate change-induced global damages” will hit $94.2 billion, as a result of the Carney government’s decision to ...

The Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and federal government have reached a tentative agreement for up to 14,000 megawatts of hydropower development and 2,000 MW of wind, in what Prime Minister Mark ...

A billion-dollar power plant meant for an artificial intelligence (AI) data centre proposed in Olds, Alberta, is “not in the public interest,” the provincial utility regulator ruled Monday.

Canada’s forests are shifting from a carbon sink to a carbon source, driven by wildfire disturbance, reveal carbon cycle models that better represent Canadian landscapes than earlier estimates.

Climate change arrived this summer for the beloved TV characters and landscapes of Sesame Street, in a special episode where Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and friends have to get ready for extreme w...