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Ottawa Can’t Deliver on Housing, Climate Without Everyone Onboard
The Trudeau government is staking its future on affordable housing, and the right choices will help bring down climate pollution. But not unless…
Apr 21
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Mitchell Beer
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Ottawa Can Confront the Cost of Living Crisis through a Climate Lens
Bringing down the cost of living is a great way to fight climate change, as long as energy savings and emission reductions are a through-line for…
Apr 14
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Can A Bank Change?
The Royal Bank of Canada took a tiny step toward climate accountability last week. But “showing their work” isn’t the end. It’s barely the end of the…
Apr 7
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March 2024
You Don’t Want to Read It. I Don’t Want to Write It. Why Are We Talking About the Carbon Tax Again?
When national climate policy is reduced to three-syllable rhymes, you know it won’t end well.
Mar 31
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You Don’t Want to Read It. I Don’t Want to Write It. Why Are We Talking About the Carbon Tax Again?
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Oil Execs Drink Their Own Kool-Aid, Talk Down the ‘Fantasy’ of Fast Energy Transition
What else would you expect at the annual CERAWeek conference? The whole point is to pitch the industry’s story and reassure its investors, surely not to…
Mar 25
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Put Up or Shut Up
It’s go time for the fossil fuel industries to get real about their climate emissions. It doesn’t sound like they’re getting the memo.
Mar 17
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The Performative Art of Climate Politics
Ontario’s Affordable Energy Act is a great idea. But it’s a private member’s bill in a hyper-partisan legislature. To really address climate and…
Mar 10
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Efficiency and Renewables? LNG and Coal Exports? B.C. Should Be Able to Pick a Lane
British Columbia has spent too many years travelling parallel paths in the shift off carbon. In 2024, an “all of the above” energy strategy is so…
Mar 2
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February 2024
China’s Peak Oil Demand Bombshell Eviscerates Danielle Smith’s Energy Strategy
Time to reconsider Alberta’s 'dangerously inept' Emissions Reduction and Energy Development Plan, writes Energi Media's Markham Hislop.
Feb 24
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On Highway Emissions, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Canada's environment minister stepped into an essential conversation on traffic, congestion, climate pollution, and highway funding. He got political…
Feb 18
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Fossil Fuel Advertising Gets Its Tobacco Moment
It was a grievous assault on tobacco-makers—until it wasn’t—when they were banned from pitching products that kill people when used as directed. In the…
Feb 11
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Bill McKibben in Ottawa: Off-the-Charts Urgency and the ‘Rocking Chair Rebellion’
Climate royalty visited Ottawa. Looked forward to skating on the Rideau Canal. Climate change had other plans. So McKibben talked about how we win, what…
Feb 3
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