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Pierre Poilievre and the provincial premiers are spoiling for yet another fight over the carbon tax — this time in a nationally televised meeting. Here's why Justin Trudeau should give it to them, and how he can beat them at their own game.
Two years after they occupied Ottawa and tried to replace the government, the freedom convoy is rallying around opposition to the carbon tax — and still making the same fundamental misunderstandings about how our democracy works.
As we transition to an electricity-based energy system, the demand for batteries will grow exponentially, but we will also reach a point where recycled battery minerals are the preferred choice of battery manufacturers.
Step aside, Danielle Smith. Move over, Scott Moe. Whether it's on housing or education, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is taking his know-nothing brand of politics to new depths lately — and reclaiming the title of Canada's worst premier.
Banks could implement initiatives like Portland’s Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund focusing on investing in climate action with multiple benefits for communities battling the scourge of climate change.
We live in an era of cascading crises that seem to have similarly begun to scratch at our door. The wars, invasions and occupations, the climate, the emergence and re-emergence of disease, the slow simmering of neo-fascism that laps at our border.
Bank of Montreal’s CEO was paid $11.2 million in 2023, the bank’s financial statements reveal. What’s not disclosed is the gap between the CEO pay and the salary of its median worker.
Around 90 per cent of Canadians who say they intend to vote Liberal or NDP tell pollsters that "climate change is a fact and is mostly caused by human activities," according to a survey by the Angus Reid Institute conducted in March. Yet only one-third of federal Conservative voters accept this foundational climate fact.