Live on March 28: Join CNO reporters for a panel on Canada's future

What’s next for Canada? With an election looming, a trade war escalating, and a climate crisis that cannot wait, join Canada's National Observer’s journalists live on March 28 to unpack this critical moment and what it means for the country's future.

Tim Lam

Wilkinson says Canada should not scrap climate policies to appease oil and gas executives

Rolling back environmental policy will hurt Canadians in the long run, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the executives of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies after they called for a national energy crisis to fast track new fossil fuel projects. The public spat reveals a new front in the ongoing battle over the sector's future in Canada.

John Woodside

Today's must read

Max Fawcett

Naheed Nenshi needs to get his elbows up

Max Fawcett

Pierre Poilievre can't escape Donald Trump

Cameron Fenton

Parks Canada braces for $450 million in cuts and lapsed funding

News

Rochelle Baker

Conservative candidate targets Great Bear Sea marine parks plan

Jack Farrell

Smith demands oil policy changes and warns national unity at stake in Carney meeting

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

Guelph fights to end Enbridge’s ‘free ride’ on public land

Opinion

J.P. Lewis

The personal price of politics in the Trump era

Conor Curtis

The annexation playbook borrows from climate denial tactics

Max Fawcett

Pierre Poilievre might have punched himself out

Features

Adrienne Tanner

Few journalists, Few questions. An election campaign just the way Poilievre likes it

Helen Wieffering

Will this pink slurry being dumped in the ocean in Halifax absorb carbon pollution?

Christopher Pollon

“What do I look for?” Promise and pitfalls in buying a used EV

Solutions

Sonal Gupta

Largest-ever Fisheries Act penalty will pay for First Nations-led Elk Valley recovery

Sonal Gupta

Investors swap suits for boots in land restoration success

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

New technology could reduce nuclear waste while generating power

Canada Now

Darius Snieckus

Alberta set to build world's first full-sized zero carbon cement plant

Darius Snieckus

Urgent search underway for buyer of $7-billion Northvolt EV battery factory in Quebec

Canada is opening the floodgates on one of Earth’s greatest living reservoirs of CO2

Canada’s forest is in trouble – and so are we. Chainsaws and fossil fuel burning are draining billions of tonnes of CO2 out of our managed forest and pouring it back into the atmosphere. And the outflow is accelerating

Barry Saxifrage

Conservatives aim for right-wing trifecta on northern Vancouver Island

Rochelle Baker

B.C. takes on Trump tariffs by boosting made-in-Canada biofuels

Rochelle Baker

Ontario PCs pledge $500 million for processing critical minerals but spending questions loom

Darius Snieckus

Special reports

Money and Business Climate Solutions

Canada’s critical minerals and why Trump wants them

Ukraine’s leader is expected to sign a critical minerals deal in Washington as the United States seeks to secure its supply chains against China and other rivals. Is Canada’s mineral wealth now in the crosshairs?