climate change

The NDP is proposing a package of measures to combat climate change, ranging from subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles to easier access to employment insurance for workers in industries threatened by the move away from fossil fuels.

Even with provinces and Ottawa not always seeing eye-to-eye these days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Friday, May 31, 2019, that his federal Liberal government would keep working with municipalities to deal with the effects of extreme weather, housing shortages and climate change.

The change won’t be pretty, but it must be done. Going forward, we must reward sustainable activity only.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney cancelled a celebratory event at an Esso gas station on Thursday to mark the repeal of the province's carbon tax, due to wildfires that have been raging for days in the Western Canadian province.

A Swedish teenager goes from country to country in Europe, aiming salvos of scientific truth about climate crisis  at the world’s recalcitrant political and corporate leaders, most of whom are working very hard to pretend that there is no global climate crisis.

Canada's clean-energy sector is growing faster than the economy as a whole and is rivalling some of the more well known industries for jobs, a new report shows.

Governments that fail to provide responses to the global climate crisis are doing so "at their own peril," former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said during a visit to Toronto. 

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party's action plan on climate change has brought one former British Columbia politician out of retirement and back into the arena.

The role of government subsidies and direct investment in increasing climate pollution in the oil and gas sector has rightly gotten a lot of attention. But transportation, the second largest source of GHG pollution in Canada, must not be ignored.

The Green Party of Canada has introduced a sweeping climate change plan that promises to stop foreign oil imports, create a non-partisan federal cabinet and turn Canada's economy carbon-free by the end of the 21st century.

In a battle to see who can prove they care more about the environment, both the Liberals and the federal New Democrats are pushing motions this week to declare climate change a national emergency.

The world is preparing for climate-driven migration in the worst way possible, not by attempting to mitigate and tackle the root causes of climate change, but with increased militarization and tougher immigration policies.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will cut Canada’s emissions almost in half over the next decade as he tries to stake out a claim to the climate change agenda in the looming federal election.

The NDP wants Ontario to declare a climate change emergency but Premier Doug Ford's response is to rail against the federal carbon tax as "one of the biggest climate crises right now."

Four days after Doug Ford's government spelled out 20-pages of weakened protections for Ontario's endangered species in an omnibus housing bill, an 18,000-page report by over 450 scientists culminated in one shocking fact: over one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.