Berlin turned down the concept of a new financing instrument for the defence industry last year, but German parliamentarian Stefan Rouenhoff says its experts are holding discussions with Canadians, and a decision has not yet been made. Read full story

The federal government is putting forward a number of proposals that put our clean water and healthy watersheds at risk. Read full story

Canada’s recently released nuclear energy strategy sets goals including construction of up to 10 new large nuclear reactors over the next 15 years, as well as a doubling of uranium exports. Read full story

The country has done this before. In the 1880s, the unifying technology was steel rail, and the political insight was that Ottawa had to pay for what the provinces could not. The technology has changed. The lesson has not. Read full story

Every public dollar diverted to prop up a U.S.-backed LNG terminal is a dollar stolen from the clean energy sectors Canadians and Indigenous communities desperately need. Read full story

If Canada is serious about developing the North, then Canada must also be serious about helping build the energy infrastructure that makes northern development possible. Read full story

The federal government's recent historic nature investment does not buy it a free pass on environmental reviews. Read full story

Canada is the only G7 country without a national office for wildfire responses. The federal government says co-ordination is a top priority, so it should establish one national agency for a single point of contact to break down any barriers between different levels of governments. Read full story

Estimates suggest that, between the feds and provinces, ‘the duty to consult is triggered hundreds of thousands of times per year in Canada,' says one committee witness. Read full story

For it to succeed, consultations must move beyond the strategy’s broad ambitions and tackle the critical issues that could make or break it. Read full story