Last Saturday’s Globe and Mail editorial assessed the positions of the four major political parties in Canada on pipelines, and they have promised to return to the topic this weekend. It was another sign of just how important energy...

Pity Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who must soon choose which promise he will break : his pledges to fight pursue reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples and to fight climate change, or his promise to get a tar sands pipeline...

There was some great news out of France this week, as BNP Paribas, the largest bank in France and 8th largest in the world, publicly stated that it will cut ties with tar sands pipelines and the companies behind them. ...

On April 11th, Canada's Premiers are heading to Quebec City to talk climate. It is a moment for all of us to demand climate protection and real renewable energy solutions. With a little more than one week to go until the massive...

The government's weakening of environmental laws to fast-track tar sands mines and pipelines could soon hit a constitutional wall. And the oil industy knows they may have to learn to take No for an answer. Last December, the...

After a legal victory earlier this year for B.C.’s resident orcas, Greenpeace is once again looking to the courts to force the protection of endangered and threatened species in Canada. This fall, Ecojustice , on behalf of five...

A protest involving thousands of people from all walks of life –   is what happens when you push Canadians against the wall. This is what happens when governments ignore the will of the people and try to railroad through their...

On Monday, Enbridge the company that is proposing to build tarsands megapiplines to both the west and east coast had another spill in Alberta. The tar sands spill poured 230,000 litres of toxic tar sands crude into the environment. ...

When federal Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver first launched his assault on the core elements of Canada’s environmental legislative regime in a January 2012  open letter , everyone knew he was talking about clearing a path...