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David Eby is a lot of things: the premier of British Columbia, the MLA for Point Grey, and Canada's last competent defender of carbon pricing. Is he also the federal NDP's leader-in-waiting and the person who can finish the work Jack Layton started?
The climate crisis knows no borders and is intensifying at an alarming rate. As long as we’re dependent on fossil fuels, we will continue to live in a volatile global landscape worsened by climate change.
Canada's climate policy is built on the foundation of an economy-wide carbon tax. But as that continues to get eroded, it's worth asking if there's a better way forward — and if are there lessons we can learn from the ongoing attacks on the levy.
For the first time, a Canadian electric utility announced plans to ensure sufficient clean electricity will be made available to fully support legal climate objectives.
A political consensus is emerging that climate policy is not compatible with a fair and prosperous economy, which puts Canada’s broader efforts to tackle the climate crisis at grave risk.
In 1965, Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson brought Pierre Elliott Trudeau into politics in order to shore up his bench — and eventually take his job. Is it time for Justin Trudeau to do the same with Mark Carney?
