Danielle Smith announces Alberta will be the proponent in a new pipeline application www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/01/n...

Mark Carney's 'Tragedy of the Horizons' speech was a landmark moment for the financial sector to recognize climate breakdown was a severe threat, but a decade later he's flouting his own prophetic warning. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/29/a...

It's the first landfill proposal in the province selected for fast-tracking under Premier Doug Ford's newly enacted Bill 5 — which makes the project immune to many of the checks and balances it would otherwise face.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/26/n...

In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government pursues a grand bargain with it. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...

A briefing note shows the federal government never believed it could meet its off diesel by 2030 target for remote Indigenous communities — considering it, rather, as “directional." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/25/n...

Inside the ‘fresh air factory’ at Canada’s Oxygen8 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/23/a...

National Defence, Fisheries and Oceans and Public Services and Procurement are the target of a federal audit on protecting assets (like buildings, vehicles, ports and other infrastructure) from the impacts of climate change, an #ATIP revealed. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/22/n...

The perception that a bureaucratic maze is preventing Canada from building major projects, as PM Mark Carney has argued to support his deregulatory nation-building agenda, doesn’t hold up according to a data analysis of projects already underway. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/15/a...

Federal planning documents obtained through access to information legislation say its "critical" to incorporate climate risks like wildfires when planning for major events like the G7 Summit held in Kananaskis, Alta. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/19/n...

Justin Trudeau was the prime minister of a Liberal government for almost a decade. But Chrystia Freeland was its heart, soul, and brain — and, in another universe, his natural and deserving successor. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/18/o...

Canada’s legally-binding climate targets require emissions reductions of 40 to 45 per cent compared to 2005 levels by the end of the decade. However, the CCI said Canada’s emissions are only on track for a 20 to 25 per cent reduction by 2030. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/18/n...

How should Canada respond to Charlie Kirk's murder? Doing better here in Canada means refusing to import the worst elements of America’s ongoing culture war into our own politics. @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/16/o...

The wildfire danger where homes meet forests is rising worldwide. Using new data, we built a detailed map of Halifax’s fire-prone forest edge — and explain what it says about the state of the wildland urban interface in Canada. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/16/n...

A major carbon bomb sits atop PM Mark Carney’s first tranche of major projects, sparking backlash from environmental and Indigenous communities who say that doubling down on LNG is placing a dangerous bet on Canada’s future. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/11/n...

“I don’t like the precedent this sets,” said the town’s mayor, Jeff Genung, at a council meeting Monday night. Genung was concerned that if Cochrane exited the program, it could be used as an example to reverse environmental policies elsewhere. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/11/n...

Carney hinted he’ll soon release a ‘climate competitiveness strategy’ that insiders expect will boost industrial carbon pricing while cutting other emission reduction policies, echoing previously failed attempts at striking a grand bargain. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/09/a...

Automakers asked, and the federal govenrment listened: the 2026 EV sales targets were removed today by Mark Carney, with a promise to immediately review the regulations. Climate experts fear this will be another key emissions reduction policy to fall www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/05/n...

Federal documents reveal Canada's plans for a G7-led initiative to craft an international blueprint using AI to protect and prosper from the world's oceans. #DFO #AI #OceanSolutions #ClimateSolutions www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/05/n...

Clean Energy Canada partnered with Abacus Data on first-of-its-kind market research to better understand the next adopters of clean technologies, write Trevor Melanson and Rachel Doran www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/o...

Rumours have been swirling that former energy and natural resources minister Jonathan Wilkinson may move on from federal politics — and with two key diplomatic posts now open in Europe, could he find himself spearheading Carney's trade ambitions? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/a...

Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 net zero pledge. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/i...

Global Affairs Canada prepared at least four playbooks ahead of last year's US election to find leverage whatever the result, and for the first time ever considered what a contested election could mean — a revealing sign of the times. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/02/i...

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A new report shows why the days of Canada's oil and gas industry being a source of job creation is almost certainly in the past. Will the politicians that are so clearly in its thrall finally start looking to the future? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/o...

For nearly two weeks in May, BC Wildfire Service's feed on Facebook was suddenly slammed with an unprecedented number of conspiracy-laden comments, many claiming — falsely — that fires burning in the province at that time were set by arsonists. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/29/n...

After months of ambiguity on his view of oil, gas, and clean energy, the prime minister has begun picking favourites. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/29/a...

Robertson said the government is weighing the demand-dampening effect of its tariffs on Chinese vehicles against the need to shield auto workers from US President Donald Trump’s tariff war against Canada.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/27/n...

Elizabeth May's announcement last week that she will not lead the party into the next election leaves the party at a crossroads and begs the question, can it survive without her? @adriennetanner.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/26/o...

How a centuries-old fire foreshadowed the future www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/25/a...

Pressure is on the federal government to refill dwindling coffers — that could run dry this year — of its loan program to help Canadians improve energy efficiency in their homes. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/21/n...

In the past 12 months, The Epoch Times has spent over $300,000 on Facebook and Instagram ads promoting political surveys to collect the emails of Canadians using a series of anonymous pages. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/21/i...

Chinese EVs won’t break Canada’s car market — but they could improve it www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/20/o...

Poilievre is back and plans to mount a campaign against the EV mandate, one of the last vestiges of the Trudeau government’s climate policy. Shows once again, he’s stuck in the past along with fossil fuel companies whose days are numbered. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/18/o...

The growing bill on Canada's so-called "senior promise" — the combination of Old Age Security, healthcare spending, and other senior-oriented benefits — threatens to bankrupt the country. Why Mark Carney can, and should, do something about it. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/18/o...

Changing the Coast Guard's "mandate to increase its security or enforcement role may impact the need to arm some of its personnel or fleet,” the briefing note obtained with a federal access to information request reads.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/18/n...

The Trump administration wants to eliminate a NASA satellite mission that pinpoints carbon dioxide emissions from a specific source, such as a power plant or wildfire, and track changes in the growing season. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/14/n...

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. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/13/a...

Canada isn’t losing the trade war — yet www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/13/o...

Dangerously dry conditions have forced Nova Scotia to restrict public access to forests and trails. Why the decision is the latest litmus test of our collective willingness to pull together in a crisis — and how some people are failing it badly. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/07/o...

As Carney stickhandles his nation-building agenda, accepting the Nunavut Land Use Plan offers Ottawa an opportunity to build — but to do so requires rejecting long-standing mining sector objections. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/07/a...

The fisheries department is seeking solutions as major industry players prepare a possible exit, which would leave closed containment contenders scrambling for a new source of Atlantic salmon eggs. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/07/n...

Hotter summers prompted us to consider the ways people interact with their urban environments in an age of extreme heat. Our research brought us to an oft-overlooked solution: splash pads. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/06/n...

“There's a solid base of Canadians that, basically, come hell or high water, is always going to give to the federal NDP,” David McGrane said. “It's part of their identity. It's part of how the federal NDP has become entrenched in Canadian politics." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/06/a...

A Canadian economist and conservative columnist who recently called Prime Minister Mark Carney a "climate zealot" played a critical role in the Trump administration's push to eradicate US climate rules. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/01/n...

In an open letter, Alice-Anne Simard and Anne-Céline Guyon argue that renewables and so-called "conventional" fossil fuels are on opposing paths — and that the prime minister must choose the sustainable one. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/31/o...

In a decision released Wednesday, Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas said the plan violates  Charter rights, which protects the right to life and security of the person. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/30/n...

As insurance providers roll out new advertising that emphasizes the rising threat of increasingly common natural disasters without mentioning climate change, Canadians are noticing that their premiums are also increasing at alarming rates. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/29/n...

As insurance providers roll out new advertising that emphasizes the rising threat of increasingly common natural disasters without mentioning climate change, Canadians are noticing that their premiums are also increasing at alarming rates. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/29/n...

Climate change is a far bigger contributor to food price inflation than federal climate policies in Canada. At some point, even the most blinkered Conservative partisan is going to have to face up to this politically inconvenient truth. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/29/o...