If you live in Vancouver, you are used to seeing a few things you don’t see in other big Canadian cities. Over 1,000 millimetres of rainfall per year is one thing. Teslas everywhere is another. The...
Last year, saw a collapse in global energy demand brought on by the pandemic—the biggest drop since the end of the Second World War. It might seem like a sombre lead for an op-ed about Canadian...
When it comes to climate action, two different worlds exist. There’s the world where its ardent proponents do battle over numbers and details, and there’s the world where everyone else lives. And...
As our largest trading partners rapidly reimagine their economies, one thing is clear: Batteries will be the literal engines of the modern world—powering our cars, our trucks, our ferries, our...
It’s easy enough to imagine what the energy transition will look like in your city or neighbourhood: electric cars and buses rolling through the streets, more people walking and biking, solar...
A Biden administration will undoubtedly mean wide-sweeping economic changes for the U.S. in the years ahead, but it also has big implications for how B.C. does business. While America’s new...
Joe Biden’s bold vision for a cleaner, more sustainable U.S. economy has been making headlines for a year now, but despite the president’s laudable ambition thus far, his boldest promise...
When imagining what will build and power a net-zero world, it’s hard not to contemplate the future of Canada’s largest export: crude oil. One might even conclude that the energy transition puts...
New U.S. President Joe Biden has a US$2-trillion plan to build America’s clean economy. That’s trillion with a t. The plan is sweeping and includes, among many other things, spending on modern...
Canada has a car conundrum. Our transportation emissions are up, and our auto manufacturing sector is down. While these two challenges might sound only tangentially related, they share a common...
It was our current prime minister’s father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who once described sharing a border with America as akin to sleeping with an elephant. “No matter how friendly...
When the federal government delivered its Throne Speech in late September, no words were minced: climate action would be a “cornerstone” of this government’s recovery. And it wasn’t just...