Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is wielding a series of deceptive statements, from environmental regulations shutting-in production to Ottawa stopping pipeline construction, to make her case for a new oil pipeline to the coast.

David Suzuki counts Jane Goodall among his top inspirations, but he isn't grieving her death. He’s grieving she never got to see the big changes to the political, economic and legal systems that destroy nature and must be reformed.

Danielle Smith is daring Mark Carney to rubber-stamp another pipeline to the West Coast. If she actually wants it to get built, she'll need to put more on the negotiating table than just threats and political rhetoric, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

With pro- and anti-pipeline positions indelibly staked out by First Nations, BC and Alberta, the only remaining question is the same one that’s been hanging over Carney’s government since he set the two trains in motion: which one will he choose?

BC First Nations feel 'déjà vu' Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, told Canada's National Observer the last decade's fight against fossil fuel pipelines by Indigenous groups will be repeating itself through legal battles and blockades.

BREAKING Danielle Smith says Alberta itself will be the proponent for a new pipeline to the BC coast.

Many appointees come from a business background but one council member in particular — Treaty 8 First Nations Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi — was a vocal critic of Carney’s major projects legislation.

Today for @nationalobserver.com, I dig into the federal gov's off diesel goal by 2030 for remote Indigenous communities. That goal was stated as a commitment, but a briefing note we obtained shows the feds never believed it could meet the target — considering it, rather, as “directional.”

“Why does anyone think they'll uphold any of their side of any bargain that is made? They did nothing other than fight every single policy, and there are none of these policies now in any serious way.” My take on oilsands. @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...

Toronto's landfill has the fastest security guard on the planet patrolling its airspace

The former environment minister said carbon capture and sequestration — which Carney has thrown his support behind — is "not a get-out-of-jail-free card to continue increasing emissions.”

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.

The long saga of the ostriches versus the government in interior BC appears to be hitting a climax.

The courtyard in the middle of the Louvre was once a parking lot. Like so much of downtown Paris though, it's been wrested from cars and returned to human beings. I went there to see what that feels like. My new column:

As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.

A review of Imperial’s recent earnings call shows the Strathcona Renewable Diesel plant launched in August with “grey hydrogen” — that is, hydrogen produced with fossil gas and without carbon capture, despite promises otherwise. New regulations aren't helping push industry in the right direction.

We obtained Canada's security planning documents for the G7. High among their concerns was wildfire and how to respond should a fire bear down on Kananaskis while world leaders gathered there, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports.

Recommended read: When it comes to climate change, 'the new normal' is a pitifully inadequate phrase, a stumbling step towards accuracy that results in misdirection. @chrishatch.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/12/o...

Canada’s #fossilfuel industry has singlehandedly scotched any chance of the country hitting its legally-binding 2030 #emissionsreduction targets, due to record #oilandgas production. Read @nationalobserver.com for my piece with @natashabulowski.bsky.social: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/18/n...

Alberta’s new power market plan sidestepped fixes for the intertie with BC, which represents a lost opportunity for Ottawa's dreams of a national grid. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/17/a...

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 federal government needs support for its upcoming budget and several pieces of legislation -- who will be their dance partner in this minority parliament? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/15/n...

The province says, once completed, the facility would produce 6,500 tonnes of cobalt sulphate a year — enough to support production of up to one million EVs.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/12/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...

Climate policy is no longer merely about reducing emissions or averting a crisis in the future. It's now a key part of the ongoing geopolitical conflict between China and the United States — one that presents a clear risk to Canada's interests. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/10/o...

New research published in Nature draws a direct link between high-emitting fossil fuel and cement companies and the frequency and severity of heat waves, including the 2021 heat dome that caused 619 deaths in BC www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/10/n...

Excellent investigation here from @dariussnieckus.bsky.social @rorywh.bsky.social for @nationalobserver.com Google quietly scrubbed mentions of its net zero target from its sustainability pages - while still 'keeping' the target, it has essentially erased its prevalence to real zero -->>

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

Ford himself has acknowledged the problem, saying Highway 407 is “getting pretty busy” since tolls were lifted — even hinting the province may have to consider adding lanes to “lighten up the traffic.”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in 2020 and declared the IT giant was entering the “most ambitious decade yet” in its climate action. Things haven’t quite turned out that way. Read @nationalobserver.com’s exclusive: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/i...

After being shut out from Carney’s cabinet, despite being among his early endorsers, Wilkinson spent months considering whether to move on from federal politics, multiple sources close to him said.

More fear mongering from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. His case to toughen Canada's self-defence law smacks of sloganeering and cheap politics, @adriennetanner.bsky.social writes.

In a moment where Canadians are looking for more serious and sober-minded political leadership, Poilievre’s persistently peevish brand of politics might not be fit for purpose, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai declared in 2020 that the IT behemoth was entering the “most ambitious decade yet” in its climate action. But our investigation has found that Google’s net-zero pledge has quietly been scrubbed from its sustainability website.

More fear mongering from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. His case to toughen Canada's self-defence law is smacks of sloganeering and cheap politics. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/o...

Carney plans to release major projects list in batches with the first decided by two things: projects considered "stuck" in the regulatory process and projects already well underway he can score political points for nudging over the line. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/n...

An accelerating new source of CO2 is adding to the already massive and growing emissions of CO2 caused by humans burning fossil oil, gas and coal.

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...

Sea otters have made an astonishing comeback from the brink of extinction, reaching populations so dense that they're now ploughing through shellfish. All of which is prompting some First Nations to ask: is it time to hunt sea otters again? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/02/n...

In most US elections, the Canadian government prepares a "red" playbook (Republicans win) and a "blue" playbook (Democrats win). In 2024, for the first time, the government had a white playbook too.

@cloelogan.bsky.social and I were working on a story about cuts to a program that monitors endangered whales. But we were stonewalled by Transport Canada for weeks. Frustrated and wanting to know why, I filed an ATIP. I got nearly 400 pages of emails in response: the dumbest coverup I've ever seen.

Again and again, well-intentioned experts in the government suggested clear answers and were immediately shut down by more senior — and more political — staff trying to cover for the government, which had cut funding for the program, @jameswsthomson.com recounts.

The tariffs ruled illegal this afternoon include the "fentanyl-related" duties on Canadian imports. More to come.

Alberta’s grid operator has unveiled long-awaited energy market reforms designed to improve reliability and affordability and pull in fresh private capital for generation/transmission/storage. Critics say the opposite will happen. Read @nationalobserver.com: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/29/n...

Alberta’s grid operator has unveiled its long-awaited energy market reforms. Canadian clean energy advocates have said the plan will lead instead to higher-price gas-fired power in the future — and fewer new lower-cost wind and solar plants in the province.

Is gardening speech? Do we have a constitutional right to let our lawn go wild? @matinsarfraz.bsky.social reports on a fascinating case in Ontario.

A flood of comments hit the BC Wildfire Service in May, pushing conspiracy theories before the fire season had even begun. And then just as quickly as the comments started rolling in, they stopped. What happened?

Oilsands jobs are dropping even as production skyrockets. As oil companies stress automation, is the oilpatch still a driver of jobs?

Liquefied natural gas is in. So are the critical minerals at the heart of the clean energy transition. Oil, on the other hand, can fend for itself, @arnokopecky.bsky.social writes

Canada is ramping up plans to export huge volumes of future liquefied natural gas production into Europe — despite forecasts of falling market demand for gas in the EU after 2030, Tim Hodgson said Wednesday.