Canada’s energy opportunity is bigger than a pipeline
Protests. Politics. Polarization. Pipelines are dominating our national discourse once again. Is it a serious issue? Certainly. And yet the time and attention it’s consuming risks distracting...
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As the world transitions to clean energy, are Canadian companies ready?
Change happens, with or without us. Just as social media upended communications, the transition to clean energy is rapidly undoing century-old expectations around electricity, transportation and oil...
Ontario PCs: abandon carbon pricing at your own risk
Ontario politics has been turned on its head, again. With less than four months until the general election, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party is leaderless, and would-be-leaders have already...
British Columbians deserve to hear the real cost of LNG
With the prospect of building LNG facilities in B.C. back in the headlines, British Columbians are once again confronted with the question of whether or how LNG should proceed — and the climate...
How Canada is subtly shifting its economy for the future
The headlines today are full of stories on the North American Free Trade Agreement, and rightly so. But while NAFTA rules the front pages, other economic policies in Canada are taking shape in the...
With or without Site C, the future of B.C. is electric
We’ve reached peak Site C. You can’t turn on the TV, open a newspaper or scroll through Twitter without hearing about B.C.’s multi-billion-dollar Site C mega-dam. And depending on the day and...
It’s time Canada got serious about electric cars
Not long ago, electric cars were curiosities — auto show novelties, toys for the rich, outliers in oil-demand forecasts. But like the iPhone, Netflix and other history-bending innovations, electric...
A little-known policy that will build an industry and fight climate change
If asked what the federal government is doing to cut carbon pollution, most Canadians would likely point to the policy they’ve heard the most about: carbon pricing. But there’s another...
Two huge energy trends Canada can’t afford to ignore
What does Canada’s energy future look like over the longer term? It’s a critical and timely question—made even more relevant as our country, at least many of our political and business...
As China headlines the energy transition, will Canada be backstage or out in the crowd?
If the global clean energy transition were a music festival, China would be dominating the main stage. In the past five years alone, China has invested over half-a-trillion dollars in renewables....
How Canadian mines could supply the clean energy transition
For many Canadians, a clean energy job probably conjures up images of working in an engineering lab, manufacturing solar panels, or assembling a wind turbine. Sectors like mining are rarely...
Why rebates for electric cars work
Last month, Ottawa officially kicked off work on a national strategy for zero-emission cars. And this week, a thoughtful report from Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission said that offering incentives to...