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1. Conference Board report misrepresents Canada’s air quality

   The Conference Board of Canada last year released a report that compared environmental performance for 16 high-income countries including Canada. Surprisingly, we ranked at or near the bottom on most of the nine indicators assessed. Air ...

2. Ontario coal phase-out did not end ’smog days’

   Jennifer Keesmaat, chief planner for the City of Toronto, has been tweeting about how phasing out coal in Ontario has made “smog days” a thing of the past. She also credits the coal phase-out with enabling Toronto to meet its city ...

3. Ontario environmental policy—excessive costs, little environmental benefits

   In a recent news release, the government of Ontario recognized “outstanding achievements in environmental protection” by announcing the recipients of the 2016 Minister’s Award for Environmental Excellence. Since 2011, the award has been ...

4. Canada’s air quality dramatically improved despite increased energy use

   In recent decades, Canada has experienced something many environmentalists thought couldn’t happen—strong economic growth and large reductions in pollution. This is a good news story that deserves telling, and a recent Fraser Institute ...

5. Canada’s air quality is much improved—no need for more costly regulation

   Appeared in the Financial Post, April 21, 2017 This Saturday is Earth Day, a worldwide celebration of environmental protection. Canadians care about the environment, especially the quality of the air we breathe. According to a survey conducted in 2016 by ...

6. Canada's Air Quality Since 1970: An Environmental Success Story

   Canadians have long been concerned about the state of our air quality and the belief that air pollution is a major problem seems to be widespread. This publication examines the evolution of air quality in Canada from the 1970s onward and looks at how the ...

7. It’s official—Ontario’s coal phase-out was all for nothing

   Appeared in the Financial Post, January 17, 2017 The federal Liberal government plans to impose a national coal phase-out, based on the same faulty arguments used in Ontario, namely that such a move will yield significant environmental benefits and reduce ...

8. Did the Coal Phase-out Reduce Ontario Air Pollution?

   In 2005, the province of Ontario began a process that would eventually lead to the phasing out of its coal-fired power plants, the largest of which were the Lambton and Nanticoke facilities in southern Ontario. The rationale for shuttering these plants ...

9. The misguided attraction of energy conservation

   Appeared in the Financial Post At the end of March, the CEO of the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) issued a directive regarding the implementation of Ontario's "Long term energy plan," which spells out  what the provincial energy regulator ...

10. Air Pollution Policy in Canada: Improving on Success

    This paper describes the evolution of Canadian air quality since the early 1970s and discusses the scientific question of whether current air pollution levels are a threat to human health. It then describes the existing structure of Canadian air-pollution ...