Three recent developments highlight how the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline is a white elephant in a world that is even modestly moving away from fossil fuels. Together, they offer…
Like a poorly-written Netflix show, Ontario’s gas pump sticker saga couldn’t decide what kind of a tale it wanted to tell. The behind-the-scenes drama, however, says a lot about how…
Our government said last month that a green and just recovery will be their number one priority when Parliament resumes this fall. Let’s hold them to it. We don’t have…
Elected officials are getting an earful from polluting corporations looking for bailouts and environmental rollbacks, so we need you to help balance the scales. Here are five reasons to support…
Market evangelists aren’t going down without a fight. In today’s Globe and Mail (“Engineering a ‘green recovery’ is a terrible idea”), the former chair of the Ecofiscal Commission Chris Ragan…
Reading between the lines of the federal government’s new loan package for big business, there is a sense that Justin Trudeau’s minority government (with some strong shoves from the NDP,…
Barely a month into Canada’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, big polluters are up to some old tricks. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s government just issued an order exempting all facilities…
We have an opportunity to come out of this public health crisis set up for a better future.
Spending hundreds of millions to build wind farms and then knock them down probably isn’t a great economic strategy. Yet it’s become the Ford government’s signature move, thanks to a…
Swimming against the tide of history, Canada’s oil industry backed the Conservative Party in a take-no-prisoners assault on climate action in the lead-up to the federal election. It was a…