Canada

19/01/25
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Primary Author: Compiled by Gaye Taylor
Jasper wildfire, Laura Durno/Twitter

Jan. 15, 2025

Canada’s insurance sector is raising alarms about the potential for the country to become “uninsurable” by 2035 due to insufficient policy action on escalating climate disasters. Meanwhile, a former California insurance official has criticized the industry for underwriting the very fossil fuel projects that worsen the climate crisis.

15/01/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 15, 2025

Pension funds are gambling with Canadians’ retirement savings by placing multi-billion dollar bets on hydrogen's ability to rescue old, polluting gas pipelines from terminal decline, according to a climate finance advocacy organization. 

12/01/25
Author: 
John Woodside

Jan. 9. 2025

The Pathways Alliance’s proposed carbon capture and storage megaproject has not begun construction or even received approval, and yet its business model is already collapsing, according to a global think tank. 

12/01/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Altadena after the fire - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/los-angeles-fires-the-damage-in-maps-video-and-images

Jan. 12, 2025

So now we know how the second Trump era begins: with Los Angeles on fire.

Apocalyptic, tragic and almost impossibly emblematic. The world at large is spiralling past the guardrail of 1.5 degrees while politics retreats from tackling the problem. Ten thousand homes and buildings burned, neighbours dead and neighbourhoods reduced to ash while the incoming president deflects, derides and promises more drilling for fossil fuels.

10/01/25
Author: 
Carl Meyer and Fatima Syed
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa in early January. Photo: Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press

Jan. 7, 2025

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate-conscious government bought Canada an oil pipeline while ushering in significant environmental laws

Justin Trudeau will step down as Canada’s prime minister after the Liberal Party picks a new leaderending a near-decade of the most climate-conscious federal government in modern history. 

02/01/25
Author: 
Alex Cosh
Graphic assembled by The Maple staff.
Jan. 2, 2025

An assessment of the Trudeau government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

 
02/01/25
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Suncor president and CEO Rich Kruger before testifying at the Standing Committee on Natural Resources in October 2023. Photo by Natasha Bulowski/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 2, 2025

Canada’s 100 richest CEOs made 210 times more than the average worker in 2023, a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reveals.

By 10:54 a.m. Thursday, the first official work day of the New Year, these CEOs will have already made, on average, $62,661 — as much as the average worker makes in a whole year.

02/01/25
Author: 
Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi and T.Y. Yang
Using modern construction methods such as prefabrication and modular construction can reduce costs, time and emissions. But in Canada, regulatory changes are needed too. Photo via Shutterstock.

Jan. 2, 2025

02/01/25
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
French energy historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz calls promises of a green energy transition ‘a delaying tactic’ against ‘decreasing energy use.’ Screenshot via Club 44.

Jan. 2, 2025

To our peril, there’s been no green revolution. Just green addition to rising fossil fuel use.

19/12/24
Author: 
Max Bearak
Gas flare as seen from Kitamaat, British Columbia.

Dec. 13, 2024

With her hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, her arms and legs covered with 20 tattoos, and her compact frame fitted out in athleisure, Crystal Smith, the elected chief of the Haisla people, looked more like the hometown basketball star she once was than the fossil fuel exporter she’s about to become.

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