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CanadaEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Climate Remains a Top Issue, Minority Government a Near-Certainty as Election Day Looms
After six weeks of campaigning, months of preparations, and years of advance political positioning, Canada is just three days away from a national vote ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisTar Sands/Oil Sands
Beer: Emissions Are Set to Rise Through 2050. And Fossils Think Climate Protesters Are the Naïve Ones?
With the latest trend report for fossil fuel consumption projecting higher carbon dioxide emissions through 2050, Canadian fossils are expressing the odd view that ... -
#ClimateStrike in Pictures: Quiet, Staid Ottawa Comes to Life
Angry. Joyous. Creative. Determined. Loud. Ottawa isn't a town that usually comes out in large numbers for public marches. For #ClimateStrike September 27, 20,000 ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaAsiaCarbon Levels & MeasurementChinaCitiesClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDrive to 1.5EuropeFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesNational Plans & ResponsesOpinion & AnalysisUnited States
UN Climate Summit Falls Short as Major Emitters Fail to Commit
With 77 smaller countries pledging to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but the world’s biggest emitters largely failing to step up, UN ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsHeat & TemperatureMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSevere Storms & FloodingTar Sands/Oil Sands
Canada’s Climate Change Election: Will Extreme Weather Drive the Vote?
As Canada’s federal election moves into its first full week, one of the looming questions is how and whether voters’ concerns about climate change, ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon Transition
‘Shut Up, Franzen!’: Climate Hawks Scorch U.S. Novelist’s Latest Fiction that Warming Crisis is Unstoppable
From the outpouring of criticism U.S. novelist Jonathan Franzen is receiving for his latest piece of overwrought climate fatalism in The New Yorker, he ... -
Beer: After Spat Over Pro-Fossil T-Shirt, Are Climate Action Messages Now Welcome in Senate Gallery?
The agency responsible for security across Parliamentary Precinct in Ottawa seems to be inadvertently taking sides in Canada’s politically fraught energy debates, after an ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsHealth & SafetyMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail Transport
Canadian Climate Hawks Face Death Threats, Safety Fears as Federal Election Call Looms
On the eve of what promises to be a gruelling, six-week federal election campaign, the online venom the climate community has faced from assorted ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Kenney Unveils Fossil ‘War Room’, Faces Criticism on Carbon Tax Repeal, Wildfire Impacts
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced the cost but few details of his much-touted, C$30-million oil and gas “war room” Friday, prompting immediate pushback from ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy PoliticsOpinion & AnalysisPetrochemicals & PlasticsPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Greens Want to End Oil Imports by 2030, Break Canada’s ‘Oil Habit’, but Keep Producing Plastics from Bitumen Past 2050
Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May appears to be borrowing a page from Conservative Andrew Scheer’s playbook, with a campaign promise to free the ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCulture, Curiosities, & HumourMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon Transition
‘We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For’: Youth from 125 Countries Join May 24 School Strike
The day before more than one million young people in 125 countries around the world took to town and city streets yet again to ... -
AfricaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationOpinion & AnalysisSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
100 Resilient Cities Closure Shows Limits of Climate Philanthropy
In the spring of 2013, the Rockefeller Foundation—the hundred-year-old charitable organization started by Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller—launched an ambitious program to help ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisSub-National Governments
Pre-Election Messaging Rolls Out as Ottawa Confirms Federal Carbon Tax for Alberta
With Ottawa confirming last week that it will impose its backstop price on carbon after the Jason Kenney government moved to eliminate Alberta’s carbon ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatCanadaEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFirst PeoplesMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisSub-National Governments
Ford’s Anti-Carbon Tax TV Ad Backfires, But Indigenous Budget Cut Hits Home
The Doug Ford government in Ontario faced widespread ridicule last week for an inept anti-carbon tax video that delivered the opposite of its intended ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsFirst PeoplesLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Oilpatch Journalist Debunks Krause’s Conspiracy Theories About Anti-Pipeline Campaigners
Part of Jason Kenney’s “pushback strategy” is a C$2.5-million public inquiry into “the foreign source of funds behind the campaign to landlock Alberta energy.” ...
