Natasha Bulowski

Saskatchewan's energy security and supply plan calls on the federal government to pay for three quarters of its first reactor without specifying how much it is expected to cost.

From its underwhelming climate competitiveness strategy through near-static clean economy tax credits, the Liberal government’s 2025 spending plan is declared a fiscal and regulatory failure by industry observers

BC Premier David Eby plans to press ahead with an anti-tariff ad campaign despite US President Donald Trump's swift reprisal following Ontario's anti-tariff ad ran during the baseball World Series. To date, Eby has not run this move by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The Carney govenrment's rollbacks of climate policy could pose some legal risk at both the domestic and international level, according to Charlie Hatt at Ecojustice.

Canada's automakers are getting what they want: an out from the federal government's electric vehicle sales mandate. Prime Minister Mark Carney is removing the 2026 sales target and reviewing the policy "immediately." So far the change is temporary but climate experts fear this is just the latest plank of climate policy to fall under Carney's tenure as prime minister.

The federal office tasked with ensuring the long-term health of Canadians’ pensions is accused of underestimating a key threat to those plans: climate change. 

On Friday, the federal government announced $21.5 million for a handful of carbon capture projects in Alberta, and while the amount isn’t going to move the needle, Energy and Natural Resource Minister Tim Hodgson’s choice of words and tone signal how Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government plans to engage with the fossil fuel industry.

The bill will give cabinet enhanced powers to approve and accelerate projects it deems to be in the national interest. It now goes to the Senate for final approval, where it is expected to pass.

Some newly-elected MPs have climate credentials but whether or not they will move the needle on climate policy depends on what roles and responsibilities they are assigned in Parliament. 

Canada needs more people working in clean-tech trades, and a new solar installation course aims to make it as easy as possible to break into this line of work.

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh urged Canadians on Friday to elect NDP MPs to hold the government to account.

A $20-billion loan for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion authorized by the federal government was actually primarily advanced as equity, new filings reveal. The equity portion, experts say, represents a nearly $15-billion bailout.

The nearly $30 billion in financial support could have been used to build much-needed interprovincial electricity grid connection infrastructure, said Julia Levin, associate director of national climate for Environmental Defence and author of the report.

Canada is not ready to deal with the damage climate change will inflict on transportation hubs that safeguard our supply chains, warns a Senate committee report.

The federal government estimates Canada’s planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions are going down, but hitting its 2030 climate targets will require much larger reductions.

Ontario insists it still needs gas-fired electricity as part of its future mix, despite incoming federal regulations to get Canada’s electricity grid to net-zero emissions by 2035. But some municipalities are refusing to take on additional gas generation because of concerns about climate change and health.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is “very confident” the federal government will get back the $34 billion in public funds spent on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. But her statement produced widespread skepticism from opposition MPs.

Alberta’s $7-million ad campaign, railing against a proposed federal industrial emissions cap, comes just weeks before a leadership review for Premier Danielle Smith whose party members are hungry for conflict with Ottawa.

Celebrating CO2 in Alberta

A proposal to stop labelling carbon dioxide as a pollutant and instead celebrate it as a "foundational nutrient for all life on Earth” will be up for debate at the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting in November.