The Wolastoq watershed - also known as the Saint John River - is facing the impacts of a changing climate deeply. Read about efforts to restore the ecosystem, with the support of @wwfcanada.org and Wawanesa Insurance - and the flora and fauna that call it home. corporateknights.com/story-studio...

The Wolastoq, also known as the Saint John River, is home to several species at risk, among them wild Atlantic salmon. Restoring ecosystems along the 700 km waterway is crucial. @wwfcanada.org and Wawanesa Insurance have teamed up to help make that happen. corporateknights.com/story-studio...

Energy storage deployment has set new records every year since 2014. In 2025, annual additions exceeded 100 gigawatts for the first time – a surge that far outpaces wind and solar growth. Source: BloombergNEF Link: about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

"History shows that successive severe shocks tend to drive profound changes in the global energy mix... Exports of electrotech from China in the months of March and April have been higher than in any month before." From Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Lion Electric once had 1,500 employees manufacturing six models of trucks and buses. Then it went bankrupt. Now investors have revived the company to make one product, which it sells exclusively in Quebec, writes Martin Patriquin for The Logic. Paywall article here: bit.ly/4u5IoUo

At the heart of Canada's critical-minerals investment blitz is a complex challenge over how to negotiate trade with the United States. In this article, journalist Kelsey Rolfe speaks to experts and dives into the intricacies of the dilemma: corporateknights.com/mining/canad...

If the federal government wants to shake up competition, it needs to go to the heart of how control is exercised in markets, writes Keldon Bester in a new op-ed. Read his argument for how Ottawa can "take on the gatekeepers" and bolster Canada's competitive environment: bit.ly/4neEeru

Canada is hoping to become a critical-minerals powerhouse for Western countries seeking to diversify their supply chains. But with $72.4 billion on the table, Canada’s critical-minerals drive must thread the needle between the United States and China. Read the story: bit.ly/4njEYvo

Ottawa’s recent spring economic update brought some brief excitement for anyone sick of dealing with the monopolies that dominate our economy: a new plan to bolster competition. But the details don't live up to the packaging, writes Keldon Bester in a new op-ed: bit.ly/4neEeru

Paul Belanger is an environmental engineer who worked in the oil and gas industry in Alberta for more than a decade. He believes that water leakage from old well sites is an under-recognized threat in Alberta. Read our investigation: corporateknights.com/health/canad...

Before the Iran war, Canada’s oil and gas industry was expected to make $30 billion this year in profit. Now that could rise to $100 billion. Read our story about why some organizations and politicians are calling for a windfall tax on the oil industry's war gains: bit.ly/4dprye5

In a survey of mostly Canadian asset managers and owners who’ve signed onto the Principles for Responsible Investment, 88% cited lack of clear policy direction from the federal government as the main obstacle to the real-world adoption of a Canadian sustainable finance taxonomy. Source: ISF & PRI

In a new op-ed, Climate Solutions Prize CEO and co-founder Galith Levy argues for a pragmatic path forward out of Canada's green innovation bottleneck. Read it here: bit.ly/4emkQXk

Alarms about the health impacts of Alberta's oil and gas industry have been ringing for two decades, yet definitive monitoring and investigations remain elusive. Read our feature investigation into how lack of data is shrouding the risks of oil & gas infrastructure: bit.ly/4utqlrT

"When people ask me whether I’m optimistic about climate, my answer is unequivocal: yes," writes Galith Levy. Why? Canada's green innovation ecosystem is already building the solutions the world demands. But, she argues, Canada has a bottleneck between breakthrough and deployment: bit.ly/4emkQXk

Lack of data is shrouding the health risks of Alberta’s orphaned oil wells, writes @cfrangou.bsky.social in this in-depth investigation in the latest issue of Corporate Knights. And the province’s plan doesn’t address the gap. corporateknights.com/health/canad...

Mark Carney has pitched Canada’s new sovereign wealth fund as a break from the past when robber barons profiteered from big infrastructure projects. How? By getting retail investors in on the act. Read more about the fund and why green investors may recoil: corporateknights.com/finance/mark...

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative has certified more than 150 million hectares of forest in North America. But environmental groups allege that the certification system amounts to greenwashing. @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social dives deep in this new feature. corporateknights.com/issues/2026-...

Our latest issue is out today, and it's all about how green technologies are rewiring geopolitics and the global economy. Grab a digital edition or order a print copy here: bit.ly/491MuVN Read it here: bit.ly/48nRggh

In a showdown of geopolitical brinksmanship, the planet’s ecological future is at stake. @nataliealcoba.bsky.social reports on the dawn of a new era in the latest spring issue of Corporate Knights, out now! corporateknights.com/energy/dawn-...

The environmental movement's successes tend to have two things in common: 1) viable substitute technology 2) visceral stakes that people feel in their bones. The climate crisis shares these traits, but climate change has been stuck in abstraction, writes CK publisher Toby Heaps: bit.ly/3Qtc3ZG

The 1.5°C threshold has been a pillar of international climate policy since the Paris Agreement, but starting in 2023, the planet began transgressing that limit. What does this mean for global climate action? Managing editor Mark Mann investigates: corporateknights.com/climate-and-...

Resist the idea that climate change has fallen off the radar of public concern. Yes, it may be displaced by other issues right now, writes Rick Smith, president of the @climateinstitute.bsky.social. But the pendulum is about to swing back. Read the column here: corporateknights.com/perspectives...

New registrations for battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars jumped 37% in Europe in March, to a monthly all-time high of almost 540,000 EVs sold. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/surging...

"Some of the additional capital we need to fix Canada’s problems is already right here at home if we can leverage philanthropic endowments through impact investing," writes Rudi Wallace, CEO of the Hamilton Community Foundation, in this new op-ed: bit.ly/4sKlmC3

OPINION | Foundations could be putting more of their resources to work on behalf of people and the planet. Rudi Wallace, CEO of the Hamilton Community Foundation, argues that Canadian foundations should use more of their endowments for impact investing. Read it here:https://bit.ly/4sKlmC3

At the heart of the debate over Canada's sustainable finance taxonomy – and the reason it has been so slow to be developed – is the question of whether natural gas should be included as a transition fuel. Canada's environmental NGOs and climate action groups say "No": bit.ly/41AWKAw

Seven years after it was first proposed, a key sustainable taxonomy tool to guard against investment greenwashing in Canada is finally in the works. Go here for the what, why and how: corporateknights.com/responsible-...

Buckle up. Bill McKibben quoting Seth Borenstein in this article: www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...

This chart shows clearly why Canada must start investing more in climate resilience. Read the full argument by Kathryn Bakos and James K. Stewart of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation: corporateknights.com/perspectives...