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1. Green handwringing over new North American trade pact

   Environmentalists are wringing their hands over the new he United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), in part because the Trudeau government did not get what it wanted for environmental protections. Early in the process, Foreign ...

2. U.S. invites new oil and gas investment while Canada lags behind

   Last week, America’s oil and gas sector received good news on the investment front. Pembina Pipeline Corp’s CEO Mick Dilger said that the next “game-changing” project could be in the United States, not Canada. He’s referring to the ...

3. U.S. and Canada take diverging paths on net neutrality

   The Trump administration recently announced its plan to repeal virtually all of the U.S. government’s existing net neutrality rules. Under the Obama administration, net neutrality rules subjected Internet service providers (ISPs) such as ...

4. It’s time for Canada to reassess its climate policy

   The federal government recently unveiled its new national carbon pricing scheme, calling it a “backstop.” Under the backstop plan, provinces are given until 2018 to create their own carbon pricing system or Ottawa will impose its own. ...

5. Canada’s climate policy—we’ll (not) always have Paris

   The consequences of adopting extreme targets for reducing Canadian greenhouse gas emissions became somewhat clearer recently, as a secret memo from Environment Canada to Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna (pictured ...