climate change

If elected premier of Ontario, new Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford says he will get rid of the carbon cap-and-trade system and make sure millions of dollars stay in the province rather than heading for California or Quebec.

For several months, a number of people have slowed progress at Kinder Morgan's Burnaby Mountain site, often using their bodies to block traffic. We caught up with a few of them outside of the B.C. Supreme Court.

Alberta politicians have passed a motion to back Premier Rachel Notley's battle for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, but division remains on how to carry the fight.

A small steeple that's a part of Halifax's urban landscape toppled early on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in a fierce winter storm that left thousands of Maritimers facing power outages, school closures and flight cancellations.

Our cities may not be running out of water yet, but people in Cape Town didn’t expect their water supply to go dry. The four-million residents of South Africa’s second-largest city could see their taps turned off by May 11, called “Day Zero” — or sooner, if people don’t obey severe water restrictions.

A former U.S. Treasury Secretary says he believes it’s time for companies to come clean about the financial risks they are facing from disruptions caused by climate change.

The Canadian division of Texas-multinational energy company Kinder Morgan is seeking to get some money from anyone who gets in the way of its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, the company indicated in legal papers to be reviewed on Wednesday by B.C.'s Supreme Court.

When I checked my email one day last week, there was a link to a piece just published in The Globe and Mail. A columnist named Gary Mason had used me as his foil to prove that protests against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion were subversive plots imported from the U.S., part of a grand overall strategy to mess with the fossil fuel industry.

The federal government and Saskatchewan are still deadlocked on a national climate change plan despite what the two sides call a constructive meeting on Friday, March 9, 2018.

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says Canada is committed to meeting its climate change targets despite a growing gap between promises and emissions projections.

David Suzuki is calling for political and economic revolution.

Lawmakers are demanding answers from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke about why political appointees in his department asked for early access to data from a study of oil and gas deposits on Alaska’s North Slope—a request that led to the resignation of a top scientist at the US Geological Survey.

Record warmth in the Arctic this month could yet prove to be a freak occurrence, but experts warn the warming event is unprecedented.

All of the new spending will result in an annual deficit of $18.1 billion for 2018/2019, and ongoing deficits that would continue over the next few years, going down to $12.3 billion by 2022/2023. These totals are lower than deficits that were projected by the Trudeau government in last year's budget.

​The Trudeau government shifted environmental gears Tuesday, putting a greater emphasis on conservation efforts, but shying away from major new financial commitments for decarbonization and climate change initiatives.