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Carney shows his hand on infrastructure and trade bill

The procedural mystery behind the prime minister’s plan to rush his treasured legislation has been unveiled. Now it’s Parliament’s play.
  • Arno Kopecky

CNO lands major climate solutions reporting award

Canada’s National Observer is proud to announce business correspondent Darius Snieckus has won Canadian Journalism Foundation's annual Award for Climate Solutions Reporting. The award-winning series, Big Green Build, told deeply reported stories on Canada’s housing construction crisis and the generational opportunity to build greener and better to meet the country’s climate targets.
  • Darren Schuettler

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  • Jeremy Appel

At a boisterous town hall, UCP coal mining plans clash with Alberta ranchers' water concerns

  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Health Canada is abandoning farmworkers to navigate the 'weird, Wild West' of pesticide harms, says lawsuit

  • Abdul Matin Sarfraz

Toronto eyes burning trash as landfill capacity nears limit

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  • Sonal Gupta

Inuit-led cruise sets a new standard for Arctic tourism

  • Natasha Bulowski
  • Rochelle Baker

NDP grassroots buck against 'top-down' leadership race

  • Darius Snieckus

Canada risks squandering multi-billion-dollar critical minerals market without 'swift action': report

Opinion

  • Ian Rowlands
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  • Juan Moreno-Cruz
  • Elisabeth Dütschke
  • Dirk Scheer
  • Daniel Sloot

Canada and Germany should double down on their energy partnership

  • Bushra Asghar
  • Erin Blondeau
  • Juan Vargas Alba
  • Lea Mary Movelle

If Carney wants to build, he should go big on a Youth Climate Corps

  • Adrienne Tanner

Carney, Eby and Ford should cool their deregulatory jets

Features

  • Abdul Matin Sarfraz

Ford's new energy plan for Ontario increases reliance on nuclear, fossil fuels

  • Max Fawcett

Canada’s Conservatives still aren’t serious about housing

  • Arno Kopecky

Trans Mountain’s financial nightmare offers lessons in the reality of pipelines

Solutions

  • Nina Lakhani

How the US became the biggest military emitter and stopped everyone finding out

  • Sonal Gupta

Using AI to protect caribou migration in a changing Arctic

  • Max Whiteman

Federal government releases final spotted owl recovery strategy — after 18 years

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  • Rochelle Baker

BC’s sunflower sea stars are now endangered, but rays of hope remain

  • Hanna Hett

Can homes built in a factory fill Canada’s housing gap?

Green building pioneers chart persuasive paths to profit

A new generation of developers and architects are designing a future for the building sector that is less polluting and still profitable
  • Darius Snieckus
A construction crane towers over the Academic Wood Tower construction site on the University of Toronto campus. Toronto, Ont.

Timber trail blazers see new growth in green building drive

  • Darius Snieckus

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation

  • Rory White

Mapping the dark-money oil and gas ads targeting a small Ontario town

  • Rory White

Business

A worker pours concrete into a crane bucket
Big Green Build

'Concrete revolution' takes aim at construction’s worst polluter

Concrete has weighed down the building industry's efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, but a low-carbon revolution in the world’s most-used construction material is starting to gather momentum
  • Darius Snieckus
Business Solutions

Volkswagen's EV battery-maker charges ahead with $7 billion gigafactory as rivals’ plans stall

  • Darius Snieckus
Business Solutions

Boeing bets on Canadian green jet fuel technologies

  • Darius Snieckus
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Aging condos get expert help with clean upgrades

  • Christopher Pollon
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Arrow reborn: an all-Canadian EV aims to revolutionize industry

  • Darius Snieckus
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