https://thenarwhal.ca Deep Dives, Cold Facts, & Pointed Commentary en-US Copyright 2026 The Narwhal hourly 1 https://thenarwhal.ca/green-party-canada-future/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=36663 For decades, the Green Party has pushed Canada’s environmental conversation forward. But the first federal election in which every party presented a credible climate plan left it battered and leaderless Fatima Syed In-Depth climate change Federal Election 2021 federal politics Green Party Photo: Christian Horz / Shutterstock https://thenarwhal.ca/federal-election-2021-results-liberals-climate/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 04:52:21 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=35339 From eliminating fossil fuel subsidies to support for nature-based climate solutions and protected areas, here are some key things we can expect from the new federal government Sarah Cox Explainer climate change Federal Election 2021 federal politics Fossil Fuel Subsidies nature-based climate solutions oilsands protected areas Photo: Justin Trudeau / Flickr Federal election 2021: Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is seen speaking https://thenarwhal.ca/federal-election-2021-climate-solutions/ Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:53:58 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=35134 Canada has a huge role to play in the global fight against the climate emergency — simply by not destroying the intact forests, grasslands and wetlands that naturally store carbon. Here’s how the major parties are leveraging everything from conservation goals to restorative agriculture to Indigenous Guardians programs in their campaign platforms Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood Explainer carbon cache climate change Federal Election 2021 federal politics nature-based climate solutions protected areas Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca/federal-election-2021-fossil-fuel-subsidies/ Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:54:20 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=35119 In 2009, when Canada and other G20 nations first pledged to tackle fossil fuel subsidies, a collective promise was made to do away with ‘inefficient’ subsidies. But the term inefficient has never been defined, giving governments and political parties during this election a significant amount of wiggle room Sarah Cox In-Depth Canada climate change Federal Election 2021 federal politics Fossil Fuel Subsidies Photo: Todd Korol https://thenarwhal.ca/federal-election-2021-fossil-fuels/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 23:41:57 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=35081 When asked about new scientific research showing much of the country’s oil, gas and coal should stay in the ground so that Canada meets its climate targets, none of the major parties were able to say how they plan to achieve this Ali Raza News coal Federal Election 2021 federal politics fracking oilsands Photo: Justin Tang / The Canadian Press https://thenarwhal.ca/federal-election-2021-electric-vehicles/ Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:20:50 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=34999 As Canadian political parties campaign on increasing zero-emission infrastructure, mining reform advocates warn of the environmental implications of expected rapid growth in mineral extraction Matt Simmons News climate change Conservative Party of Canada electric vehicles Federal Election 2021 Green Party of Canada Liberal Party of Canada mining Mining Association of Canada MiningWatch NDP Pierre Gratton Photo: Wikimedia Commons https://thenarwhal.ca/federal-election-2021-climate-platform-explainer/ Mon, 13 Sep 2021 21:07:25 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=34904 Canadians who watched the English-language leaders’ debate learned little about the differences between the climate policies of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives, Jagmeet Singh’s NDP and Annamie Paul’s Greens. Here’s what the federal election debate missed Emma Gilchrist Explainer climate change Federal Election 2021 federal politics Photo: Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, left to right, Green Party Leader Annamie Paul, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole pose for an official photo before the federal election English-language Leaders debate https://thenarwhal.ca/federal-election-2021-iron-earth/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:31:52 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=34019 Iron & Earth, an advocacy group for oil and gas workers, says massive federal investments are needed over next decade to help companies and workers transition to an economy in line with Canada’s net-zero carbon pollution targets Inori Roy Profile climate change Federal Election 2021 federal politics Iron & Earth nature-based climate solutions oil and gas oilsands renewable energy Photo: Christopher Katsarov Luna / The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-federal-election-2021-voting-climate/ Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:04:05 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=33938 For too many years, governments and corporations alike urged us puny citizens to do our part without bothering to do theirs Arno Kopecky Opinion climate change Federal Election 2021 federal politics Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal Federal election 2021: photo of person holding Purple Prairie Clover in prairie grasslands, featured in Arno Kopecky op-ed on voting https://thenarwhal.ca/federal-election-2021-conservatives-pipeline-protests/ Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:03:44 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=33796 The Conservative Party leader wants to amend Canada’s Criminal Code to stop protests that disrupt key infrastructure, in a move some say will unfairly target Indigenous land defenders and criminalize those who challenge government and industry to respond to the global climate crisis Fatima Syed News Erin O’Toole Federal Election 2021 federal politics oil and gas pipelines Photo: Deb Ransom, OLO / Flickr