Climate

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has donated the nearly $4-billion company to a specially designed trust and a non-profit dedicated to protecting the environment, a decision designed to help the company put its profits toward environmental advocacy and stay in business. 

Days after signing a landmark $2.5-billion deal with the provinces and territories to subsidize Canada's farmers, the federal agriculture minister says she was betrayed by a cadre of conservative premiers.

As King Charles III begins his reign after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, environmentalists will be watching how — and if — the new monarch will continue to advocate for climate action and the environment. 

Even record-setting temperatures can’t melt the continent’s reluctance to install cooling technology.

The Goldboro LNG project is set to liquify natural gas piped in from Alberta before it’s shipped off to Europe. Opponents argue the proposition needs more environmental scrutiny.

The summer session begins Monday with the provincial throne speech on Tuesday, after which Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy will retable the 2022 budget.

May ran the party between 2006 and 2019 but resigned after she promised her daughter that year’s election would be her last race as leader.

A nuclear energy advocacy group is calling for Ontario to extend the life of the Pickering nuclear power plant as the province faces an impending electricity crunch.

The city is tagging on to a larger campaign, Sue Big Oil, which is a collection of local governments across British Columbia banding together for a class action lawsuit, arguing fossil fuel companies should help municipalities recoup climate-related costs.

The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation holds a total of $199.6 billion in managed assets and oversees retirement savings for the province's teachers, nurses, municipal workers and other government workers, according to its site.

Grabbing groceries before they get trashed has a green side-effect, too: reducing food waste cuts down on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, research shows.

The group found an ample amount of rare lichen among the trees slated for logging, requiring enough buffer zones to make over half of the area protected.

In other parts of the world, the kind of nightmare scenarios the West is anticipating have already arrived. 

Tim Takaro, a retired doctor, reflected on events that led him to spend 16 months in a treehouse protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

The press releases from the Ontario Green Party HQ gush forth, as they have for months, long before the Ontario election campaign officially began.