Analysis

Will a price on carbon be a central issue in Alberta's 2019 election? With opinion polls that show Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party has a wide lead over Premier Rachel Notley's NDP, and signs that oilpatch leaders are undermining the government's approach to pollution, the pressure is on for Notley's team to show their work on the economy, climate change and renewable energy issues.

B.C. continues to approve major LNG projects but can their climate pollution fit the province's climate targets? Take a visual tour through the data in five charts to see the implications for British Columbians.

The Alberta Energy Regulator efforts this week at damage control are nonsensical. It’s difficult to overstate the consequences of the predicament that the regulator – assumed to guard the public interest, but long since captured to serve industry – has plunged the province with a staggering unfunded liability for oil and gas cleanup.

A sign of the company’s fiscal crisis came in September when unionized journalists and sales staff at the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun voted 32 to 24 to accept a Postmedia contract that reduces sick pay, dental and other health benefits. The company had threatened to lock out the workers if they didn’t accept the deal.

David McLaughlin of the International Institute for Sustainable Development provides key citations from the special report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show how Canada already is, and increasingly will be, affected by global warming and climate change.

Even the Trump administration acknowledges that global temperatures are rising to catastrophic Levels. So why bother regulating anything?

Born in 1957 on the western tip of the island of Montreal, Francois Legault started his career as a chartered accountant. He co-founded Air Transat in 1986 where he remained CEO until 1997. According to tax documents filed in September, Legault is worth $9.86 million.

A statement from this year's G7 meetings in Halifax said “many ministers" stressed that the impacts of climate change were an “existential threat."

How did a government so adamant that Trans Mountain was a matter of "national interest" that they bought it outright, fail to meet its constitutional duties?

After a year of power sharing with B.C.'s NDP government, Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver says he’s excited about a new economic plan, but doesn’t believe environmental targets can be met if a planned LNG project goes ahead.

Take a behind-the-scenes peek at the investigation by Mike De Souza and National Observer's team into the Kinder Morgan saga.

Canada is fortunate indeed to have a court system that produces rulings of the depth and quality of the Federal Court of Appeal’s judgment on the Trans Mountain Project.

Dozens of epitaphs written over the weekend proclaim the late U.S. Senator John McCain as an American hero, writes Eric Holthaus. But history may miss one of his greatest achievements: His decades-long call for climate action.

In his exit press conference on Friday, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull put climate policy right at the heart of his demise. He said it was difficult for his governing coalition to agree on any plan to reduce emissions, blaming “bitterly entrenched views that are actually sort of more ideological views than views based, as I say, in engineering and economics.”

If we want to solve climate change, there's no other option.