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Basic Income, Just Transition Depend on Each Other, Regehr Says
Sheila Regehr has been chair of the Basic Income Canada Network since 2014. She’s a retired federal public servant with years of experience working ... -
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Ford, Unifor Reach Tentative Deal to Build Five Electric Vehicle Models in Oakville
Ford Motor Company of Canada and Unifor have signed a tentative collective agreement that commits the company to a C$1.8-billion investment to build five ... -
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Alberta Surges, Ontario Fades as Canada’s Leading Jurisdiction for Wind, Solar
Alberta is set to surpass Ontario as Canada’s leading jurisdiction for utility-scale wind and solar, with 83% of the country’s new installations over the ... -
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Regina Researchers Urge City to Focus on Equity in Climate Planning
When you think of Regina, you might imagine a city that depends heavily on cars. But when University of Regina professor Emily Eaton gathered ... -
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Newfoundland Turns Thumbs Down on Husky’s Offshore Oil Bailout Demand
With Husky Energy on the hunt for government bailouts for its C$2.2-billion West White Rose project off the Newfoundland coast, the provincial government is ... -
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Replace Pickering Nuclear Plant with Renewables, Not Gas, OCAA Urges
The impending closure of Ontario’s Pickering Nuclear Station is an opportunity to build a sustainable energy system based on sound energy efficiency programs, investment ... -
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Big Financial Loss Prompts Petronas to ‘Reassess’ Oil and Gas Investments, Expand Renewables
One of the partners in British Columbia’s massive LNG Canada megaproject, Malaysian state fossil Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas), is planning to cut global oil ... -
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The Battle Plan: Key Lessons from the Second World War for the Climate Mobilization (Part 1)
This is the first of two excerpts from Seth Klein’s A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, published in early September and ... -
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Nuclear Industry Survey Shows 86% Public Support for Federal Investment in Clean Energy
More than three-quarters of Canadians see climate change as a serious issue, 57% say it has affected them or their loved ones, and 86% ... -
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Alberta Start-Up Plans Solar Arrays for Abandoned Oil Wells
An initial two to four abandoned oil well sites in Taber, Alberta will be converted to host small solar arrays, in a bid to ... -
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Freeland, Carney May Be Canada’s Last, Best Chance for a Green Recovery
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Houston in March 2017 and declared fealty to a fossil fuel industry already entering its sunset, he ... -
Carney Joins Brookfield Asset Management as Vice-Chair, Head of ESG and Impact Investing
Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England now serving as United Nations special envoy on climate ... -
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‘Unlikely Allies’ Create Renewable Energy Opportunities in Alberta
What do oil executives and climate activists have in common? Not much, if you listen to popular media narratives pitting environmental protection against economic ... -
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Place Indigenous Youth at Centre of Clean Energy Partnerships, McCarthy and Morrison Urge
Ottawa and the provinces must work harder to support Canada’s Indigenous peoples in becoming full partners in the clean energy transition—and Indigenous youth need ... -
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Plug-In Hybrids Miss Their Carbon Targets as Owners Fail to Charge Batteries
A new study in the journal Environmental Research Letters gets at the strange and vexing question of why some car owners in the United ...
