climate change

Canada, we need to change the channel, the authors write. First in a series about Canada's climate policy strengths.

A Quebec high school French exam question that asked students about adapting to climate change has drawn a torrent of online criticism, as teens used memes and videos to denounce what they see as government inaction on climate issues.

The federal government has started to give away money to encourage people to buy electric cars, but before long it will have to decide how far it will go to force the market towards lower-emission vehicles.

We could curb every greenhouse gas emission in the world tomorrow but we would still have a global water crisis, writes Maude Barlow. She suggests it's wrong to blame climate change alone for the flooding in Eastern Canada.

Permafrost in some areas of the Canadian Arctic is melting so fast that it's gulping up the equipment left there to study it.

On Thursday, the leader of the Ontario Greens is giving gas stations an alternative sticker that is free and reveals the costs of climate change to counter Ford's "tax-payer funded partisan stickers." Mike Schreiner's stickers display the fact that climate costs in Canada could reach as high as $91 billion per year by 2050.

Youth across the country launched the Our Time campaign and started organizing around a Green New Deal for Canada. One of the organizers, Khady Konaté, addresses Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's private pre-election meetings with oil executives and lobbyists.

The federal government of Justin Trudeau took the initiative on Jason Kenney's first day in power in Alberta, offering to exempt a list of specific oilsands operations from environmental assessment if the new UCP government sticks to Rachel Notley​​​​​​​'s 100 megatonne emissions cap.

Federal rebates to encourage Canadians to buy electric cars take effect today, May 1, 2019.

The long Canadian winter of 2019 was good for at least one thing: filling the war chests of the country's political parties.

Robert Pepin's mobile home sits crookedly on its foundation, the front door is broken, the insulation and deck are damaged beyond repair.

Japan’s continued support for coal power should be on the agenda when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this weekend, given the recent surge in public concern about climate change.

A new report released on Thursday by the Calgary-based National Energy Board (NEB) says that carbon taxes are efficient at reducing energy consumption, and thereby emissions, by households and businesses. The analysis examined the shift underway as the economy moves from fossil fuels to clean energy.

A report compiled by Environment Canada shows that four fossil fuel facilities in northern Alberta produced far more carbon dioxide and other pollutants than they are required to report under international guidelines.

The four-day hearing in the Ontario Court of Appeal on the Doug Ford government's constitutional challenge of the federal carbon pricing program ended Thursday the same way it began — with Ontario and Ottawa butting heads over who had jurisdiction over the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.