The lead up to Global Divestment Day is seeing unprecedented progress in the development of Divestment Campaigns across Canadian campuses. On Tuesday, faculty at the University of British Columbia (UBC) voted in favour of divesting completely from fossil fuels within five years! This is not an insignificant gesture. According […]
The Prime Minister’s comments on the importance of economic growth over climate change action, reported in a recent article in the Toronto Star, create a false choice. They are evidence that he has ignored the advice from some of Canada’s brightest minds, who for the last 25 years worked on the convergence […]
We recognize the dim future of the fossil fuel economy yet we continue to search frantically for new sources of oil. As KAIROS demonstrates in its research paper “Pumped Up: How Canada subsidizes fossil fuels at the expense of green alternatives“, we spend far more money in Canada to […]
According to this professionally conducted telephone poll: 77% of Canadians support increased taxes on carbon based fuels, with revenues used to fund research and development for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs; and 84% agree that “Rich countries like Canada have a moral obligation to show international leadership by reducing their […]
