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

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

The Fort Macleod & District Community Hall was packed to capacity with nearly 500 people, with the premier and cabinet ministers facing near-constant jeers from a majority of attendees who came to express their frustrations with the Alberta government's decision to permit coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

Jeremy Appel

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Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

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

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Toronto eyes burning trash as landfill capacity nears limit

NDP grassroots buck against 'top-down' leadership race

News

Darius Snieckus

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

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Using AI to protect caribou migration in a changing Arctic

Darius Snieckus

Canada’s clean energy investment slows but momentum could surge with new power deals

Opinion

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

Chris Hatch

There is no such thing as "decarbonized oil"

Features

Max Fawcett

Canada’s Conservatives still aren’t serious about housing

Cloe Logan

Newfoundland and Labrador's big offshore gas bet clashes with climate reality

Arno Kopecky

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

Solutions

Sophie Hurwitz

Uber’s new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who’s taken a bus

Max Whiteman

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

Rochelle Baker

Canada’s northern wildfires projected to slow global warming — at a high cost

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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

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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