Canada

Before heading to this year’s climate conference, Canada's new environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, should announce to Canadians clear and ambitious timelines to develop and implement the government’s climate platform, Lisa Gue and Tom Green write.

Many of Canada's marine protected areas are weakly protected and vulnerable to threats from extraction industries, trawling, or dumping despite Canada's ambitious conservation goals as it heads to COP26.

Gasoline cars are even more CO2-intensive than coal power plants. And in Canada, it is gasoline, not coal, that is driving climate failure, says columnist Barry Saxifrage.

Rachael Cadman’s PhD studies involve supporting the Torngat Wildlife, Plants, & Fisheries Secretariat and other partners to map out and help implement an Inuit community vision of the future of fisheries in Nunatsiavut, a self-governing Inuit region in northern Labrador. 

As Justin Trudeau and his most senior advisers finalize their cabinet picks, they have an embarrassment of riches to choose from among the 160-member Liberal caucus, writes Andrew Perez.

Plastics are expected to contribute more to climate change than coal-powered generating plants within the next decade, a new report by U.S. environmental organization Beyond Plastics has found. But the problem has so far received minimal attention from politicians and businesses.

A week-long water crisis that has left residents of Nunavut's capital city Iqaluit without drinking water is also exposing a chronic problem for many northern communities: It's almost impossible to safely get rid of garbage.

Our country has all the necessary ingredients to excel in this challenge, write Andy Chisholm and Sean Cleary.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair examines how racism isn’t just costing taxpayers more, but costing people their lives.

Cheap plastic coffee cups, takeout containers, and hundreds of other single-use items have long been a substitute for more durable alternatives made from glass, ceramic, or wood, despite the environmental harm they cause. 

At the current UN summit aiming to pull biodiversity back from the brink, global leaders emphasized conserving nature is vital to achieving climate targets set at COP26.

About a fifth of fish harvested from the world's oceans — including over half of Canada's $3.6-billion annual catch — is being given away for a pittance to a handful of companies and investors, a new study warns. 

Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement Monday that the transit pipeline treaty “guarantees the uninterrupted transit of light crude oil and natural gas liquids between the two countries.”

Now, with an election behind us and a federal government that has plenty of support on the climate file, it’s time for Canada to place a bet on the economy of the future — and get on with building it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

As a family, we have been at the receiving end of almost everything Canada did to First Nations people, and my mother saw it all, writes Robert Jago.