The fossil fuel industry’s call to roll back environmental policy at a time of economic crisis will hurt Canadians in the long run, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the executives of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies Thursday.
Some students at UBC have gone on hunger strike in an attempt to get the university’s administration to make good on past promises as well as to “divest from the over $110 million it has invested in weapons manufacturers and corporations that sustain Apartheid Israel’s ongoing occupation, annexation, and genocide in Occupied Palestine, Lebanon and Syria.”
British Columbia’s carbon-accounting process to help make forestry decisions isn’t consistent or transparent, a new report by the province’s auditor general indicates.
The B.C. Forests Ministry uses carbon projections to help determine how management decisions could affect the amount of planet-warming carbon emissions the province's forests store and release into the atmosphere.
Despite the security dangers posed by U.S. President Donald Trump, there is no way a new – or resurrected – pipeline project would be completed in less than five years
Jonathan Wilkinson would like everyone to take a deep breath, when it comes to one of the biggest, costliest and riskiest ways that Canada could try to assert itsenergy independence in the face of Donald Trump’s threats.
As gas prices rise again in Ontario and British Columbia, leaving millions of Canadians at the mercy of volatile markets—and Wall Street—health and climate experts say it’s time for policymakers to break free from fossil fuels.
The looming threat of a trade war with the U.S. has focused attention on lessening Canada’s historic dependence on trade with the our neighbours to the south.
‘Keep calm and buy Canadian’ will line Galen Weston’s pockets and do little else. We need emergency measures that protect everyone.
With Trump’s tariff threats, Canada is staring down a moment of extreme economic uncertainty—one that will hit workers and vulnerable communities hardest.
It’s a moment that feels all too familiar. The early days of the global pandemic were filled with a similar overwhelming sense of urgency and solidarity.
