In your words: Why it's time for thermal coal to go
Oct 21, 2021
During the 2021 federal election, we asked supporters to reach out to their local papers to tell them why it's time for Canada to finally - finally!- end coal exports. We saw some moving, smart an Read more
Election’s Over: It’s time for Parliament to get to work on the climate crisis
Oct 04, 2021
Another election came and went. In many ways it seems like not much was accomplished - or not much changed. Yet I’m ready to greet Canada’s 44th Parliament with higher hopes for ambitious climate Read more
Canadian governments have spent $23 billion on fossil fuel pipelines since 2018
Jul 06, 2021
In a climate emergency, how do you think the federal government should be using public dollars? Solar energy and battery storage come to mind. So does electrified public transportation and energy e Read more
Paying Polluters: How much Canada gave in federal financial support for oil and gas in 2020
Apr 15, 2021
A new report released today by Environmental Defence - Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas i Read more
Oil is crashing, again. And this time it won’t recover. We can’t let the oil lobby bring Canada down with it.
Oct 19, 2020
Keith Brooks writes in iPolitics about the need for an open conversation about the diminishing benefits and increasing environmental impacts of Canada's oil and gas sector. Read more
Why does Shell pay the oil and gas lobby to do its anti-climate action dirty work?
Oct 05, 2020
Tim Gray argues in the Hill Times that oil supermajor Shell's ongoing membership of the Canadian oil and gas lobbying association, CAPP, is increasingly hypocritical. Read more
The climate crisis: learning and taking inspiration from our COVID response
Jul 22, 2020
Canada needs to abandon its practice of setting and missing distant targets and adopt concrete, detailed, and specific action plans that we rigorously follow and track. Read more