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Environment / May 2021

Ask an Expert: What’s the Future of Oil in Canada?

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 - by Imre Szeman

The Keystone XL pipeline has been cancelled. What happens next?

Jason Kenney speaks at a conference in November 2019.

Politics

What Jason Kenney’s War Room Is Costing Alberta

January 14, 2020March 6, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

The province’s failure to consider climate risk may lose it billions in global investment

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Business

The Decade in Money

December 16, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Vancouver’s unaffordable housing to millennials planning for early retirement, these are the money conversations that defined Canada

An oil pumpjack stands in an open prairie field covered with snow.

Business

Give Alberta Oil Back to the People

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 - by Linda McQuaig

Norway has banked more than $1 trillion—all thanks to its state-owned oil company. Should Alberta follow its model?

Environment

Should Oil Companies Be on the Hook for Climate Change Costs?

January 26, 2018November 11, 2019 - by Christopher Pollon

From wild fires to rising sea levels, ecological disasters are expected to cost Canada $5 billion per year by 2020—and some communities want big oil to pay its share

Environment

The Other Pipeline

November 26, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Ben Powless

The proposed Energy East project will traverse six provinces and some of the most sensitive ecosystems in the country

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December 2015 / Memoir

The Roughneck Diaries

November 25, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Remembering when the oil sands were young

Politics

Green Peace River

September 24, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Andrea Bennett

Liz Biggar divided her oil-and-gas town. Now she’s running for election

May 2015 / Society

In Denial

April 20, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Atom Egoyan

The Armenian genocide, a century later

Environment / May 2013

Editor’s Note

April 15, 2013April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

The modern green movement was born in Concord, Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau wrote The Maine Woods, a book extolling the benefits of conservation. Some of its readers were inspired …