Alberta isn't ready for what comes next
Canada's Conservatives need to get serious about the province's oil and gas industry — otherwise, it will be left in the dust by a global energy transition supercharged by Chinese manufacturing.
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The climate crisis isn’t a game, it’s our foreboding future
Despite all the signs that we need to be doing more, faster, the current political conversation around climate is to do much less: Remove the carbon tax, eliminate the clean electricity standard.
Liberals swoop on Pierre Poilievre’s visit to carbon tax protest
During a stop to promote the budget in Oakville, Ont., Justin Trudeau was asked about Poilievre's recent appearance alongside anti-carbon price activists in Atlantic Canada who were waving expletive-laden flags bearing the prime minister's name.
Carbon price grievances end in doubled returns to Indigenous governments — not exemptions
After facing severe political blowback for its carbon tax exemption on home heating oil last fall, Ottawa is caving to complaints again and doubling rebates for First Nations governments.
What does the federal NDP really think about the carbon tax?
But Jagmeet Singh refused to say explicitly whether he supports the consumer levy, and Canadians having to pay it on everyday items like gasoline.
If you believe the race to cut climate pollution requires a strong mandate from the public, the latest polling makes grim reading
The impacts of inflation and the cost of living have knocked climate change down the list of priorities.
Trudeau mystified by NDP backtrack on carbon price support
The NDP have long been proponents of the climate policy, and even campaigned on it in the 2019 election.
Carbon tax flak flies across political divide
The federal carbon tax took a beating from polar opposite sides of the political spectrum this week at annual conservative and progressive conferences held just blocks from each other in Ottawa.
Poilievre ducks industrial carbon price question
Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre continues to evade questions about whether he would axe the carbon pricing system for industrial emitters if he forms the next government.
The carbon tax convoy hasn’t learned a thing
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.
Trudeau says provinces must put a price on carbon as Manitoba plans an alternative
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew appeared at odds over carbon pricing on Thursday.
Political frenzy on B.C. carbon tax ‘whiplash’ politics: Greens
B.C. Premier David Eby's loyalty to the carbon tax has landed him at the centre of a political maelstrom on carbon pricing, which the BC Green Party calls a distraction from the big-picture solutions needed for climate change.
Second time lucky? Premier pitches another carbon tax plan
This week, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau where he presented his “Still Better Than a Carbon Tax” plan, which he insisted would “do far more to address climate change.” It follows his first attempt to skirt the tax in August 2022. That plan was similarly titled “Better Than a Carbon Tax.”
Deniers and doomers are leading the carbon tax opposition
Calls to suspend the April 1 increase at best ignore the real causes of the affordability crisis, and at worst seek to win Canadians’ support via false solutions.
Pierre Poilievre’s climate policy is a joke
The endless debate over the carbon tax is missing the forest for the trees — and distracting us from the more important conversation we need to have about the CPC's do-nothing attitude towards climate change.