Ottawa Insider

Ottawa residents showed up outside Parliament to crank up pressure on politicians and demand an end to fossil fuels three days before MPs return to the House of Commons for the fall session.

Plenty of political distractions and grandstanding are sure to accompany politicians’ return to the House of Commons on Monday — but there are also incoming climate policies with a suite of repercussions. 

Down in the polls, the Liberals went on the offensive on Day 2 of the Conservative Party of Canada’s policy convention in Quebec City.

Canada’s oil and gas industry says the costly technology it plans to use to reduce its climate footprint requires more investments from the federal government. If governments lend a hand now, the industry maintains the technology will become more affordable over time as more projects proceed, but a new analysis casts doubt on that claim.

If armed with the right knowledge, Canadians can take action to reduce their homes’ vulnerability to extreme heat, wildfires and flooding by using natural tools to adapt to climate change.

Unifor autoworkers at Stellantis, General Motors and Ford are poised to strike over wages, pensions and support for the transition to electric vehicle manufacturing jobs, if necessary. 

Premier Danielle Smith is using a recent alert urging Albertans to reduce their electricity use as ammunition in her firefight against the federal government’s regulations to clean up Canada’s power grid by 2035.

Ontario’s auto sector has a chance to cash in on North America’s growing market for electric buses and electrifying the province’s school buses is a strong place to start, say Pembina Institute analysts.

A few years ago, Ottawa resident Bruce Fanjoy set out to build an energy-efficient house capable of producing all the power it needs. He succeeded.

Alberta's seven-month moratorium on renewable energy development has stalled 118 projects representing $33 billion in investments, a new analysis shows.

If the entire supply of new central air conditioners was replaced with heat pumps starting in 2025, it would mean cumulative energy bill savings of $10.4 billion across Canada by 2035.

“We are still waiting for any kind of climate plan from Pierre Poilievre,” said Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault in an emailed statement to Canada’s National Observer. “While the Conservative party still debates whether climate change is real, the world is on fire,” the statement reads. 

Algonquin leaders and elders argued against a proposed nuclear waste storage facility in Chalk River, Ont., at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s final licensing hearing before deciding whether to allow its construction.

Alberta is pausing approvals for all new renewable energy projects — effective immediately — while it reviews how these projects affect land use, the power grid and how they’ll be cleaned up down the line.

The contractor building the Site C hydroelectric dam in B.C. pleaded guilty to one charge of releasing contaminated water into the Peace River on the same day the megaproject hit a big milestone.