Stories byNathaniel Crouch

Set to become the last coal-dependent province in Canada, Saskatchewan is choosing the most expensive electricity option out to 2050, one that stands to squeeze household and business budgets just as Canada faces mounting economic pressure from Donald Trump’s trade war, warn experts at the Calgary-based Pembina Institute.

Federal impact assessment reviews for two Ontario nuclear projects risk serving as little more than procedural approvals, a Toronto environmental studies professor says, as they move through the process without first identifying the reactor types to be built.

Four years after Sen. Rosa Galvez (ISG-Quebec) first tabled the Climate-Aligned Finance Act (CAFA), the bill returned to the spotlight this week as a panel of lawmakers, policy experts, and reporters probed what’s changed, what remains unresolved, and whether Canada can translate the proposal into enforceable regulation.

The federal government is investing more than C$100 million in three Western Canadian transmission projects, underscoring the consensus that Canada’s clean-energy transition depends as much on wires as it does on wind turbines and solar panels.

Ontario’s plan to build the world’s largest nuclear generating station at Wesleyville, near Port Hope, is rapidly emerging as one of the most consequential infrastructure decisions in the province’s history, as well as one of the most controversial.

A new report from Environmental Defence Canada challenges Ontario’s highway-heavy approach to congestion, arguing that projects such as the proposed Highway 413 will cost billions but do little to ease traffic in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

Despite recent assertions from Ontario Premier Doug Ford that construction has begun on Highway 413, one of the province’s most controversial transportation projects, advocacy group Environmental Defence Canada says no such work is under way.

Freelancer Nathaniel Crouch set out for The Mix to see what clean energy looks like in Canada’s largest city. From a lone wind turbine at the Exhibition Grounds to solar panels tucked into a high school and a hidden geothermal field beneath the University of Toronto, this photo essay reveals...