Heat pumps will save you big money
A new online calculator shows how much money households in Canada’s largest cities could save by transitioning their homes from gas heat and air conditioning to a heat pump.
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When climate’s on B.C. communities’ agenda, fossil fuels firms turn up the heat
Many municipal leaders are contesting continued sponsorship of their annual UBCM conference by fossil fuel corporations — especially when those same companies direct heat at small communities looking to electrify to meet climate targets.
Crowding out the cougars
Expanded development on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, viewed as a climate refuge, is encroaching on prime wildlife habitat. As big cats find it harder to avoid people, many are winding up dead.
Upstart federal political party wants to provide centrist alternative
A new federal political party wants to be a centrist alternative to the Conservatives and Liberals, but doing so is easier said than done.
Ford cabinet minister Kaleed Rasheed resigns amid Greenbelt probe
Ontario's Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery Kaleed Rasheed has resigned from cabinet and the Ontario Progressive Conservative caucus. Rasheed's departure follows an integrity commissioner's investigation into the controversial Greenbelt land swap.
Innovation lends hope to climate problems: Prince William, billionaires Gates and Bloomberg
With deadly extreme weather hitting all over the globe, rising temperatures peaking during the hottest summer on record and carbon pollution levels that keep climbing, Britain’s Prince William and wealthy entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg promised a warming world a degree of hope.
Canada's diplomatic tension with India in 'early stages', says former Trudeau adviser
One expert thinks Canada may be just at the beginning of a months-long diplomatic spat with India, as allies await more information on accusations New Delhi played a role in the death of a Canadian citizen.
Hardeep Nijjar had weekly meetings with CSIS before murder that Trudeau links to India: son
The son of Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar says his father met regularly with Canadian intelligence officers in the months before he was shot dead in British Columbia last June, a killing that's been credibly linked to India, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.
Most Canadians believe news should be free and media will fend financially
A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone, while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.
Counter-protests pop up across Canada as hateful anti-LGBTQ rallies begin
Protests and counter-protests for and against Canada's trans and LGBTQ community are being planned across Canada on Wednesday.
It's Wednesday. Time to save the world at the UN General Assembly
If you think your Wednesday is going to be busy, pour one out for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Time to have the roadkill talk
It’s the environmental problem no one is paying attention to, argues Ben Goldfarb in his new book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.
In Germany, wind turbines are being torn down to make way for a coal mine — and RBC is financing it
Sustainable finance could be an important step to paying for the energy transition to a climate-safe future, so why is it being used to tear down wind turbines to expand a coal mine?
Toronto considers ban on gas-burning vehicles-for-hire by 2031
The plan calls for all vehicles for hire, with the exception of stretch limousines and accessible vehicles, to be zero-emission by 2031. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles would be allowed until Dec. 31, 2032.
Canada told allies about suspicions over India's involvement B.C. murder
Yet while Trudeau is urging India to take the matter seriously, Liberals also say they hope to maintain normal ties with a country Ottawa has selected as a key partner in the Indo-Pacific.