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La semaine dernière, 10 mois après la catastrophe qui a frappé la ville de Lac‑Mégantic, les procureurs du gouvernement du Québec ont déposé des accusations criminelles contre trois employés de...
Last week, 10 months after disaster struck the town of Lac-Mégantic, Québec government prosecutors laid criminal charges against three front-line employees of Montréal Maine and Atlantic Railway (...
This report examines the assumptions behind the BC government’s projection of a $100 billion "Prosperity Fund" from LNG exports, and finds that the returns promised to the public are not realistic...
Some winter we’re having, eh? This winter has been cold, no doubt about it. It is probably the coldest we’ve seen in North America since some time in the 1990s. So, does this mean that global...
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." —Heraclitus, 535 BC-475 BC.
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When European...
Twenty-five years ago, when I first scrutinized the text of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA), I warned that the proportionality clause in the energy chapter posed a grave danger to...
The Ontario Green Energy Act was a creative effort to reduce the impacts of climate change and revitalize a faltering provincial economy. Though the Ontario government missed a self-imposed 2013...
BC stands at a carbon crossroads: developing a multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry would make it impossible to obey BC's 2007 law on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which...
With the images of burning cop cars, the Mi'kmaq blockade in New Brunswick has been associated with violence, but the protest against fracking is an act of hope and peace, and has a long pedigree...