There are many Canadian clean tech manufacturing and innovation firms, but they have not got the government support they need to achieve stock market status, nor have they acquired private financing of the order of magnitude potential witnessed elsewhere.

With all fossil fuel sectors in decline, what better time for the federal government to develop an electric vehicle national strategy?

Environmental impact assessment of offshore oil-and-gas drilling on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland is being eclipsed by COVID-19 and pipelines

While governments around the world are part of the growing fossil fuel divestment momentum Canadian financial institutions and governments are still betting on fossil fuels. 

Ford, GM and Fiat Chrysler need to make up for lost time to compete with foreign counterparts on electric-vehicles.

Should a Canadian citizen want to make investments which exclude the fossil fuel sector or divest from fossil fuels, and is inclined to give priority for Canadian companies, they appear to be out of luck.

The country is choosing to ignore the signs of a global evolution to a green economy at its own peril. 

For the first time in the history of Quebec, the provincial government has no senior ministers and only two elected representatives from the island of Montreal. Will Dubitsky examines divisions emerging over proposals by the Coalition Avenir Québec government, notably a law banning certain public officials from wearing religious symbols.

While getting Big Oil to pivot to clean energy may seem far-fetched, some fossil fuel giants are starting to get serious about reducing their carbon footprint and diversifying towards clean technologies. Shell is one notable example of the widening fault lines among Big Oil.

China already offers a wide selection of EVs and sales are already booming, the European migration to EVs is imminent while North American governments and automakers are lagging behind, with modest exceptions in some progressive U.S. states and Québec and BC.