Ford gutted Ontario's environmental laws. Now he wants Ottawa to clear the last line of defence

If the Bill 5 megaprojects proposed by Ontario Premier Doug Ford — like mining in the Ring of Fire or building Highway 413 — push federally listed species, such as the boreal caribou or redside dace, to the brink, only the federal Species at Risk Act still stands in the way.

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

There's always money for the military. But climate?

For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail. And yet, Canada’s military spending will hit two per cent of GDP this year, and will reach a stratospheric five per cent within 10 years.

Seth Klein

Today's must read

Cloe Logan

Newfoundland group alleges fish farms are dumping plastic waste and derelict equipment

Sonal Gupta

Inuit podcast takes us inside the Arctic meltdown

Jay Cockburn

If you want to play baseball in Toronto’s parks, bring a shovel

News

Sonal Gupta

Yukon First Nation calls for accountability over mine disaster

Kelly Geraldine Malone

Triple the number of Canadians see US as top threat

Arno Kopecky

On Carney's agenda, climate is nowhere and everywhere

Opinion

Adrienne Tanner

Ontario and Alberta collude to put profits ahead of Indigenous clean water rights

David Macdonald

Feds should rethink campaign promise of $13 billion in “savings”

Bruce S. Campbell

Losing confidence in Carney’s willingness to prioritize action on the climate crisis

Features

Cloe Logan

Nova Scotia pushes to develop offshore natural gas

Sandra Bartlett

How a Canadian climate activist came to believe, ‘We’re going to need a bigger treaty’

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

Ford government proposes new powers to control who gets electricity access

Solutions

Frida Garza

Want to try lab-grown salmon? The US just approved it.

Chris Hatch

Halfway to 2050, and far from where we need to be

John Woodside

National power grid needed to fend off Trump and build clean economy: advocates

In case you missed it

Rory White

Misinformation-laden website almost convinces Alberta town to abandon climate program

Christopher Pollon

Americans keep an eye on Arctic port revival in Churchill

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

Sunflower sea stars clinging to life in BC’s cold-water fjords are officially on the edge of extinction, a Canadian scientific advisory panel warns.

Rochelle Baker

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

Hanna Hett

Green building pioneers chart persuasive paths to profit

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

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