As people who work on climate policy for a living, the news that Conservative leader Erin O’Toole had been unseated brought to mind four unsettling words: Here we go again. While it’s true that,...
Let’s start with the bottom line: electric vehicles are not a question. In 2022, they’re an inevitability. That’s certainly what the world’s big automakers think. General Motors, Ford Motors,...
In a time not so long ago, few Canadians would have said they really felt climate change. It was a scary idea, sure, but ominous abstractions hardly inspire true fear. Canadians are afraid...
Parliament is beginning its term on the heels of the devastating flooding in B.C. and the global COP26 climate summit. Climate action is high on the agenda, as the recent speech from the throne...
Canada is an electricity heavyweight. In addition to being the world’s sixth-largest electricity producer and third-largest electricity exporter, Canada can boast an electricity grid that...
B.C. has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do what few places in the world have managed. The province will soon release its new economic strategy, following the recent release of its Roadmap...
COP26 ended on Saturday with a new deal to try and limit global temperature rise to 1.5C: the Glasgow Climate Pact. Reaction to the deal has been mixed, ranging from anger and disappointment to...
Canada is entering an election amid record-breaking wildfires, heat waves, and floods that have wiped out towns and destroyed communities. There’s no doubt this is a critical time in the climate...
The B.C. government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and...
In fall of 2020, hydrogen was big news—and it still is. In advance of the Government of Canada’s launch of a national hydrogen strategy, we released a report titled A New Hope, exploring...
You’ve probably already heard that the village of Lytton, B.C., broke Canada’s all-time temperature record not once but three days in a row earlier this summer, culminating to an unbelievable...
When it comes to cars, Ontario knows a thing or two. After all, the province ranks second only to Michigan for North American vehicle production. Ontarians will also know that the auto world is...