John Woodside

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A land use plan that defines economic and conservation zones is the last major outstanding issue from the 1993 Nunavut Agreement, and Ottawa's major projects agenda may be the opportunity to finally see a missing piece of Inuit self-determination fall into place.

The Wet'suwet'en Nation is taking a Japanese bank to task over its fossil fuel financing which overrode the nation's right to free, prior and informed consent. It's a preview into the risks looming on the horizon as Prime Minister Mark Carney pursues his major projects agenda.

Four years after a heat dome killed at least 619 people across British Columbia, much work has been done to better prepare for extreme heat. It's still not enough.

Canada's two largest pension funds are taking radically different approaches when it comes to sustainable investing. This yawning gap between the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is at least partly explained by fossil fuel linked board directors at the former polluting its outlook, experts say.

All federal party leaders say Canada must fend off the US from a position of strength, but whether new fossil fuel infrastructure can achieve that was hotly debated at the leaders’ debate Thursday evening.