Bruce Lourie
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Columnist | Toronto
About Bruce Lourie
Bruce Lourie is president of the Ivey Foundation and co-author with Rick Smith of Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health.
Canada can thrive and achieve climate success with or without a carbon tax
For climate policy experts, the carbon tax was always meant to be part of the solution, not the dominant climate policy.
97,000 at COP: A questionable parade of oil execs and climate groupies
Activists are horrified by a climate conference in one of richest petrostates on the planet. Remind me why they went?
The trouble with climate targets
Canada does have a particularly poor track record in meeting climate targets, and Liberal governments in Canada tend to wear the “missing targets” badge more than others.
Mood in the streets is for bold climate action. Are world leaders listening?
Canada is clearly playing an important role, not as a political powerhouse, but as a genuine contributor to the sense of progress, made all the more significant given our substantial oil production and export economy, writes Bruce Lourie.
Crisis Readiness: Who is best fit to manage the country?
With the Federal election garnering little attention for big ideas, one may want to evaluate the prospective parties and their leaders through one question: who would be best-suited to respond to the next global crisis?
O'Toole's climate plan has a carbon price — just don't call it a tax
Erin O'Toole's six priorities are hit-and-miss, and revert back to traditional technological solutions in the energy sector while missing many of the important economy-wide measures to help the regions of Canada without oil.
The risks of COVID-19: Why humans act too slowly in the face of danger
Given the science we have about pandemics, climate change and other risks why do humans not take meaningful actions sooner?
An illuminating look at what Doug Ford just did to Ontarians' energy bills
The implications for the Conservatives are serious. Scrapping Ontario’s cap and trade system will be “messy and costly”