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Will Canada’s Race Towards US-Style Environmental Laws Threaten the Pivot to the EU?

As the EU-Canada Summit in Montreal on October 29, 30 approaches Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to forge a new “Alliance for the Future” by strengthening Canada’s economic, defence and social ties ...
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Natural gas has no place in Canada’s green finance rulebook for electricity

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, CARBON TRACKER INITIATIVE, CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK – RÉSEAU ACTION CLIMAT CANADA, SHIFT: ACTION FOR PENSION WEALTH & PLANET HEALTH, WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW A new report from ...
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Toronto Candidates Are Asked to Commit to Clean Power in New Pledge

The Renewables-Ready Toronto Pledge lets voters know where candidates stand on the city’s clean energy future Toronto | ...
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Ontario and Ottawa’s $9 Billion “Action Plan” Is Another Step Backwards on Climate

Toronto | Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – Today’s $9 billion ...
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Four Years Later, Canada’s Biggest Steel Mill Is Still Burning Coal

On October 13th, it was officially four years since ArcelorMittal Dofasco “broke ground” on their decarbonization project. There’s been no discernible ...
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Canada’s green finance taxonomy should exclude oil and gas ‘abatement’

This is a guest blog by Jessica Carradine, lead author of The Taxonomy Fossil Fuel Conflict: Why Oil and Gas Inclusion Would be Counterproductive All submissions to the public consultation on the ...
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New Polling Shows Federal Pipeline Plans Hurting Government’s Popularity

The Government of Canada’s plans to subsidize a new oil pipeline and roll back environmental safeguards are hurting government support in key federal ridings Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of ...
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Canada’s Latest Climate Report Should Be Call to Action, Instead Gov’t Tried to Bury It

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Canada’s latest state of the climate report is a stark warning of what Canadians will face if governments fail to tackle ...
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Canada’s Most Polluting Methane Gas Export Project Announced Today

Toronto | Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – Today’s announcement of one ...
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Fossil fuel lobbying skyrockets in first year of PM Carney’s government

Correction: This release was updated on 19 August 2026. Environmental Defence’s latest analysis of the federal Lobby Registry shows Big Oil has unprecedented access to the federal government. Ottawa | ...
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Federal Government Nixes Toronto Island Airport Expansion After Massive Public Opposition

Toronto | Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat — Tonight, we’re celebrating a ...