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Canada needs a concerted effort to support the clean tech sector during the COVID-19 crisis or companies will go bankrupt or be so delayed in getting their technology to market that our competitive advantage could be lost.
It took months, but North American health authorities are finally recommending we cover our faces when we leave the house. And that mask can be homemade.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Fridays for Future, the youth climate campaign, was seeing numbers of protesters decline and its calls for action falling short of its goals. Now, the movement is recalibrating its strategies to try to usher in the next phase of a global campaign.
Canada’s traditionally strong oil and gas sector will never return to its halcyon boom days of the early 2000s. We need to rebuild the economy we want: a cleaner, resilient one.
“Will aunty die from the virus?” Andrea Landry's three-year-old daughter asked her one morning while they were playing quietly on the floor. Landry recognized her daughter's fear, and she recognized her own. She knew this pandemic was an invitation to feel complicated emotions, but also a time to look to traditional knowledge systems, to survive in the same way as her ancestors did.
