Taylor C. Noakes

About Taylor C. Noakes
Taylor C. Noakes is an independent journalist and public historian from Montreal
Canada needs Carney's proposed national electricity grid
Forget interprovincial trade barriers and new pipeline infrastructure: what Canada needs now is a national electricity grid.
On April 9, Liberal Leader Mark Carney made what might be the most significant environmental and energy policy proposal of the campaign thus far, and significantly, chose Calgary as the place to do it.
Dark money is poisoning Canada with pro-oil propaganda
In communities lacking adequate local news media, what is in essence nothing more than propaganda might be the sum total of coverage an important issue gets. We need stronger laws to curb misinformation in advertising.
Forget pipelines — the U.S. trade war is our chance to decarbonize
Energy sovereignty is economic sovereignty, and there’s no faster route to energy sovereignty than by harnessing the fully renewable energy resources that are already abundant within Canada and whose value is not dependent on export markets.
Forget the fighter jets. Canada needs a climate army
For the rest of this century, Canada is guaranteed to have an increasing need for water bombers and other tools to combat climate change. It is less certain we’ll need weapons of war.
Why a protest photo of Chrystia Freeland and a scarf caused Twitter to blow up
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was photographed holding a scarf bearing colours associated with a far-right Ukrainian paramilitary group from the Second World War this past weekend.
Six months after floods, some Montrealers still can't go home
This is the unfinished story of the floods that rocked central Canada in May, 2017: after helpful military members cleared out, after politicians talked about revising flood plans, some residents and homeowners are still on hold. They are still waiting to find out if they can rebuild, if they can go home, if their politicians have concrete plans for helping them in the future.