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B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad paints dire fiscal picture in speech ahead of election call
B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad, speaks to media in Vancouver on Friday, September 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
alberta
Pressure still on oilsands sector despite silence after greenwashing law: think tank
In the absence of public communication from the Pathways Alliance, a clean energy think-tank says the oilsands industry group is running out of time to deliver on its emissions reduction promises. An oilsands facility is reflected in a tailings pond near Fort McMurray, Alta., on July 10, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
world
Youth activists protest to demand action on climate as big events open in New York City
Participants hold up placards with the lettering 'Act as if there was no tomorrow' (L) and 'Earth first' during a climate protest organised by the Fridays for Future movement in front of the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany on September 20, 2024. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)
newsletter
Morning Update: A wildfire wake-up call
Firefighters from Mexico march along a fire guard as they battle wildfires near Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada July 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jesse Winter
canada
Canada’s wildland firefighters are stretched thin. Where are resources falling short, and can they catch up?
report on business
Oil and gas emissions swamp progress in other Canadian sectors, report says
A general view shows a Syncrude oil sands mining facility near Fort McKay, Alberta, on September 6, 2022. - At Fort McKay near Fort McMurray in western Canada, in the heart of the country's boreal forest, the pines and the people were long ago cleared out to make way for huge open-pit mines dedicated to excavation of oil sands. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
Mr. Singh, meet your ‘big polluters’: all of us
The Editorial Board
globe climate newsletter
Globe Climate: Resilience lives on in Mi’kmaq country
Meadow Christmas, 22, of Membertou with an 8-lb lobster on the wharf in Port Morien, NS, July, 2024. Meadow is on her second season of lobster fishing under the Membertou band’s in-shore, commercial licence. // Shae Denny, 28, is the aquatics research program manager with the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources (UINR), which represents the five Mi’kmaw communities in Cape Breton.
report on business
Nova Scotia premier repeats calls for Ottawa to pay for protecting Chignecto Isthmus
<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, meets with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston in Halifax on Tuesday, October 4, 2022. Nova Scotia's premier is repeating his government’s calls for Ottawa to foot the full bill to protect a vital strip of land that connects the province to the rest of the country ahead of a new parliamentary session. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese</p>
world
Death toll keeps rising as torrential rain and flooding force mass evacuations across Central Europe
Debris collects on a small overpath on the Opavice River near Krnov, Czech Republic, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
world
Four people found dead in eastern Romania as rainstorms leave hundreds stranded
In this photo released by the Romanian Emergency Services Galati, rescuers assist a local person on a flooded street in Pechea, Romania, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024 after torrential rainstorms left scores of people stranded in flooded areas.
canada
NDP caving to Poilievre on carbon price, has no idea how to fight climate change: Trudeau
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to the media at the party's caucus retreat, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 in Montreal. Singh won't say whether he would keep the consumer carbon price if his party forms government at the next election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
opinion
Hurricane Alley is expanding north. Canada must be prepared
Porter Fox
canada
Canada’s wildfire season ranks among worst but less severe than feared
A devastated neighbourhood in west Jasper, Alberta on Monday August 19, 2024. Parks Canada says a weekend drenching of rain on parts of Jasper National Park is doing a lot to quell fire activity, but the wet weather also comes with a warning. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
report on business
Proportion of Canadian CEOs concerned about climate change rose dramatically this year, report says
The Bay Street financial district of Toronto is shown on Sunday Set. 8, 2024. A new report says the proportion of Canadian business leaders who worry about climate change rose dramatically this year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Doug Ives
energy and resources
Trillions of dollars of fossil fuel finance routed via tax havens, study says
AES Indiana Petersburg Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Petersburg, Ind., on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
world
Flash flood sweeps away hamlet in northern Vietnam as typhoon death toll rises to at least 155
This aerial view shows the landslide site in the remote mountainous village of Lang Nu, in Lao Cai province on September 11, 2024, in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi hitting northern Vietnam. A landslide in the wake of the deadly Typhoon Yagi devastated a Vietnamese village, state media reported on September 11, as severe flooding in the aftermath of the area's strongest storm in decades claimed victims across multiple countries. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
machines like us
There’s a way to cool the planet. Scientists are terrified of it
Podcast
machines like us machines-like-us
canada
Toronto’s Don River floods offer urgent planning lessons for climate-challenged cities
science
The Globe answers reader questions about climate change
Beautiful pack ice near the Arctic island Spitsbergen/Svalbard in the North Pole region.