Canada races to catch up as G7 releases action plan for critical minerals

Canada’s vast critical mineral wealth is beyond dispute. Whether the global strategy agreed at this week’s meeting of industrialized nations in Kananaskis, Alta. will help or hinder the country’s chances in this key energy transition market remains a question.

Darius Snieckus

Pierre Poilievre might be cooked

The Conservative Party of Canada will reportedly hold a leadership review next January. It's not at all clear that Pierre Poilievre will even make it that far.

Max Fawcett

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Rochelle Baker

Fraser River feels the burn: Wildfires spiking pollutants and altering ocean carbon

Arno Kopecky

Mark Carney's dreamy summer of exuberance

Sonal Gupta

Indigenous businesses feel the pinch from decline in US tourists and federal funding cuts

News

Patrick Maynard

A city in war-torn Ukraine has a mass transit policy some Torontonians are begging for

Rory White

A US climate conspiracy has spread to Canada — and local politicians haven’t been warned

Arno Kopecky

What Gregor Robertson's housing track record can tell us about his ministerial plans

Opinion

Adrienne Tanner

Ford's nuclear obsession is robbing Ontario of its true clean energy future

Doug Ford is threatening environmental stewardship, democratic norms, and Indigenous rights

Chris Hatch

Danielle Smith's revealing 'living standards' slip

Features

In 'serious omission,' G7 leaders release wildfire charter with no mention of climate change

Natasha Bulowski

Conservatives vote with Carney government to rush Bill C-5

Jeremy Appel

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

Solutions

Benji Jones

You might accidentally be killing hummingbirds

Georgina Gustin

The world’s oceans are a ‘ticking time bomb,’ reaching dangerous acidification levels earlier than scientists thought

Scouts plant trees to help conserve Canada's future

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Christopher Pollon

Warming waters revive port plans in Churchill

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