At a time when the world recognizes the need to end the reliance on fossil fuels, Newfoundland and Labrador is planning to double offshore oil production by 2030.
Canada’s National Observer spoke with National Chief RoseAnne Archibald of the Assembly of First Nations about a whirlwind week of apologies, masses and next steps towards reconciliation.
The relentless rise of fossil fuel burning in Canada is leaving climate-safe energy alternatives — and climate hope — far behind. And columnist Barry Saxifrage has the charts to prove it.
The death panel report is a grotesquerie, cataloging just how miserably unfair climate change is to the vulnerable. In addition to failures in preparation and response, the coroners found that most of the 619 climate victims in B.C. were elders and neighbours with medical conditions, typically living in “socially or materially deprived neighbourhoods.”
A recent survey commissioned by voter mobilization group Future Majority found young Ontario voters are concerned about affordable housing, mental health and climate change.
Independent Sen. Rosa Galvez was struck by the influence lobbyists have on environmental regulation and the imbalanced nature of government consultations when she joined the Senate in December 2016.
The 2020 emissions data is finally out. Here's how Canada and many of its peers did on their Copenhagen Accord targets. (Spoiler alert: Europeans and Americans, yes. Canadians, not so much.)
Canada's forests are being logged faster than they are growing back, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage. That's pouring billions of tonnes of CO2 into our rapidly destabilizing climate.
Linda Solomon Wood, editor-in-chief of Canada's National Observer, spoke with Cat Abreu, founder of Destination Zero, about Canada's newly released Emissions Reduction Plan.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, those who fail to learn from their climate polluting history are doomed to repeat it, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage.