Canada

06/02/25
Author: 
Emma Paling
Screenshot of Pierre Poilievre video via X.

Feb. 4, 2025

The top-line agenda is clear: cut, cut, cut.

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is signalling what Canadians can expect if his party forms government later this year. 

30/01/25
Author: 
Jessica Green
A decarbonized economy will require lots of people — some of whom will need extensive training. Photo by Shutterstock

Jan. 29, 2025

The race for Liberal party leadership is on. Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland has announced that if elected Prime Minister, she will get rid of the consumer carbon tax. Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney has been cagier about the issue, but may also do the same. 

30/01/25
Author: 
Joseph Winters
Photo by Getty Images/Grist

Jan. 28, 2025

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

27/01/25
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Photo via Province of British Columbia on Flickr, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Jan. 27, 2025

26/01/25
Author: 
Patrick Greenfield
Near Newtok in Alaska, melting permafrost is causing the Ninglick River to widen and erode its banks. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Jan. 21, 2025

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the frozen north.

24/01/25
Author: 
The Canadian Press
Four Canadian banks have joined several U.S. banks in pulling out of a global alliance that supports efforts to align lending, investment and other financial activities with the goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. A person makes their way past a Toronto-Dominion Bank branch in Toronto, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

Jan. 18, 2025

Banks say they can go it alone to help the push toward achieving net-zero emissions

Four of Canada's biggest banks have left the UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance that aims to accelerate climate action among financial institutions.

Banks including BMO, National Bank, TD Bank Group and CIBC confirmed Friday they were no longer members.

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