Analysis

In Episode 4 of The Road, Isaac Phan Nay explores how Ontario’s consultation of First Nations clashes with international law on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Kyle Brennan Shàwinipinesì is the senior lead of Build Native with Shopify — the e-commerce platform’s campaign to connect Indigenous entrepreneurs with online stores.

In recent years, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has emerged on the world scene as a fierce champion of global financial reform to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis. In an interview with Canada's National Observer, she unpacks what she hopes to see unfold in forthcoming negotiations.

The peatlands in the Ring of Fire mining region alone store about two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases.

In Episode 2 of The Road, Isaac Phan Nay examines the history — and myths — that surround the Ring of Fire mining region in northern Ontario. 

Canadian financial institutions have financed metallurgical coal, the kind used to make steel, to the tune of $20 billion even as greener alternatives are proven possible. With clean steel set to boom, those investments are at risk.

Robot snowplows have run trials in communities across Canada, as well as on federal land, but whether they'll replace emissions-heavy snowplows is uncertain.

Sinking badly in the polls as political pressure mounts against the carbon price, can Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rescue his signature climate policy?

The U.S. has pledged to ban old-growth logging, but protecting Canada's ancient forests won't be as simple, stakeholders say.

Previous summits have ended with funds established to help developing countries transition to green energies, pledges to slash pollution and promises to keep people most vulnerable at the centre of policy discussions.

The Chiefs of Ontario supports climate action and other strategies to lower emissions, but the purpose of the challenge is because "the federal government has not responded with something that adequately responds to the realities of communities."

The proposed plan to tackle oil and gas sector emissions is to cut pollution from the sector by more than a third by 2030.

First Nations leadership from across the country will be descending on Ottawa to elect a new national chief, with questions remaining about how the new Assembly of First Nations leader will balance climate action with resource development.

In an interview with Canada’s National Observer, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said details of the oil and gas emissions cap framework are being finalized but should be ready “in the coming days.”

Five charts show how Canada is running out the clock on climate hope.