John Woodside

Experts are dismayed at the lack of progress from the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), which received the complaint in April 2024. Part of the problem is the head position at the CORE has been vacant for months and in the absence of accountability, ReconAfrica has continued drilling.

Striking a deal between the climate and fossil fuel development is a tantalizing goal for Prime Minister Mark Carney, but this grand bargain approach is the wrong framing that backfires anyway experts say.

The multi-billion dollar Canada Greener Homes Loan program that gives zero interest loans to Canadians to retrofit their homes was so popular it got a $600 million top up last year. But within months, that refill will be exhausted, an access to information request reveals — unless the prime minister injects new cash.

Triggering immense backlash from climate groups and Indigenous leaders, Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed his long awaited first batch of nation-building projects that includes doubling capacity at LNG Canada's site in Kitimat, BC.

Replaying the Trudeau-era strategy of influencing policy by lobbying high-level officials isn't working for climate groups who are now pivoting to an outsider game in an attempt to find leverage in the age of Carney.

Should research published by banks be held to the same anti-greenwashing rules as other corporate documents? One shareholder advocacy group is pushing a Quebec regulator to decide, in a move that could open up a new battleground for corporate accountability.

Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to see the Pathways Alliance project built in exchange for a new oil pipeline to the BC coast — a risky bet on the country’s economic future.

In theory, industrial carbon pricing is a workhorse climate policy for Canada. But a fractured regulatory landscape and some provinces' hostility is undermining it and now the feds are preparing to step in.

Financial data suggests Canadian banks are poised to profit if Donald Trump’s plan to takeover Venezuela’s oil industry comes to fruition.

Hundreds of workers responsible for pollution prevention, weather forecasting, conservation and environmental disaster response are being at Environment and Climate Change Canada received workforce adjustment notices as Prime Minister Mark Carney's government takes a chainsaw to the public service.