Climate Change

28/11/19
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Wexit map

There are already two Canadas when it comes to climate pollution, and they've been heading in opposite directions for years. A successful "Wexit" would split them into two separate countries:

27/11/19
Author: 
Eric Reguly European Bureau Chief

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Don’t believe everything you hear about the green-energy revolution. It’s coming, but more slowly than advertised. Fossil fuels, in absolute terms, are still on the rise because of population and economic growth.

27/11/19
Author: 
Mia Rabson The Canadian Press
A car is fuelled up at a gas station in Vancouver, on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

November 27th 2019

The Ecofiscal Commission says quadrupling Canada's carbon price by 2030 is the easiest and most cost-effective way for the country to meet its climate targets.

But the independent think-tank also warns that might be the toughest plan to sell to the public because the costs of carbon taxes are highly visible.

27/11/19
Author: 
Ross Belot

Nov. 26, 2019

Justin Trudeau and Jason Kenny are peddling a fantasy when it comes to fossil fuel development in Canada. Both play to Alberta’s desire for the boom years to return, rather than dealing with the likely future.

27/11/19
Author: 
Chris Turner
Jason Kenney and Justin Trudeau. File photo

n a recent speech at an oil industry conference, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney trafficked, as he often does, in climate inaccuracy. In itself, that’s not remarkable. The sun also rose and set that day.

27/11/19
Author: 
Alastair Sharp
The seven young Ontarians who served notice on Doug Ford's government over climate inaction with two Ecojustice lawyers representing them. Photo courtesy of Ecojustice

November 26th 2019

"We need to go into their court system and show them their own laws and that you need to be practicing and following them," said Beze Gray, one of seven young Ontarians who on Tuesday served legal notice on the Doug Ford government over its climate inaction.

The gang of seven are taking their climate protest from the street to the courthouse, arguing that Ford’s weakened climate targets breach their constitutional right to life, liberty and security.

25/11/19
Author: 
Joseph Stiglitz
 ‘And it should be clear that, in spite of the increases in GDP, in spite of the 2008 crisis being well behind us, everything is not fine.’ Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

The way we assess economic performance and social progress is fundamentally wrong, and the climate crisis has brought these concerns to the fore

25/11/19
Author: 
Bob Weber
Ice floats in Slidre Fjord outside the Eureka Weather Station, on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, on Monday, July 24, 2006. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh

November 24th 2019

For Keith Morrison, the consequences of this fall's extraordinarily warm weather across the North all came down to an urgent call for help.

The fire chief for the Arctic community of Cambridge Bay in Nunavut was at home the evening of Oct. 6 when he got word that a couple had fallen through the ice near a river mouth.

"It was pitch black," Morrison recalled.

25/11/19
Author: 
Chris D'Angelo .

Heatwaves, drought, wildfires and infectious disease threaten to undermine decades of gains in global public health.

Nov. 13, 2019

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