(Photograph by Kathleen Fisher)
Nowhere to buy
Soaring home prices, insane bidding wars and cancelled dreams have spread from urban centres into towns across Canada. How did everywhere become Toronto and Vancouver?
May 17, 2021
It would keep happening, even though Louise Haehnel knew resisting her tendency to daydream would prevent more heartbreak. She and her husband, James, would view a house listed in Oshawa, Ont., or further afield. And she’d begin to imagine: the sofa here, the pictures there; six-year-old Aubree taking this bedroom and four-year-old Ava getting that one, instead of them having to share in the Haehnels’ small apartment. “Then, every single time, we’re disappointed,” she says, “because we’re not just a little bit outbid we’re nowhere near in the running.”
Climate action is going to create too many jobs
Mike Moffatt and John McNally: Two big bottlenecks stand in the way of Canada’s climate ambition a shortage of skilled labour and a shortage of housing By Mike Moffatt and John McNally
May 6, 2021 Cranes and large steel columns at Tesla GigaFactory under construction in Austin Texas on Jan. 4, 2021 (iStock)
Mike Moffatt is an assistant professor at the Ivey Business School at Western University and senior director at the Smart Prosperity Institute. John McNally is a senior clean growth researcher at Smart Prosperity.
Canada’s level of climate ambition targeted this decade keeps climbing ever upwards. We went from having no clear plan to reach a 30 per cent emissions reduction target to now having a 40-45 per cent emissions reduction target and a plan to reach almost all of it in less than two years. This is great for Canada. Targets and policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions fight climate change and create
Carbon-cutting strategy should take a couple of pages from the campaign against smoking
The fight to phase out smoking was a public policy success, and two government actions in particular are worth emulating when it comes reducing carbon emissions, writes Eric Campbell.
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Posted: Apr 22, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 22
Cars and trucks are responsible for almost one quarter of all of Canada s carbon emissions.(Rick Bowmer/The Associated Press)
Is Canada finally inching toward a political consensus on climate change?
On the day Erin O Toole tacitly gave up his party s opposition to carbon-pricing ( We recognize, he said, that the most efficient way to reduce our emissions is to use pricing mechanisms ) he struggled to explain why his proposal for a lower price on carbon was more altruistic than the policies Conservatives have spent more than a decade condemning.
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Erin O Toole s climate plan is debatable, but the political split over climate change has narrowed
Posted: Apr 16, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 16
Conservative Leader Erin O Toole announces his party s climate change policy in Ottawa on Thursday, April 15, 2021.(Adrian Wyld / Canadian Press)