The pandemic, through the eyes of our researchers

What the new agreement gets right—and where there's room to go bolder

After 18 months of haggling, a leaked counter-proposal covering only vaccines has global health advocates fuming

Canada’s trade win over U.S. tariffs on solar product imports is a good thing, but a regional strategy for decarbonization is where the money—and climate potential—really is.

Temporarily suspending trade rules covering COVID-19 vaccines and treatments would speed up the global recovery. Our government has other plans.

To get the just transition right, we need to defang trade and investment treaties that give polluters a veto on responsible and sustainable economic transformation.

A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.

We dive into what the Green Party has promised ahead of the 44th Canadian election.

We dive into what the Conservative Party has promised ahead of the 44th Canadian election.

A post-CETA free trade deal with the United Kingdom should facilitate decarbonization and a just transition, not get in the way.

Canadian business is understandably concerned about Buy America conditions on Biden’s US$2.3-trillion COVID recovery plan. But lobbying U.S. governments for waivers for Canadian suppliers can only get us so far. In addition, the Trudeau government should increase the pool of transit, water and green energy projects these firms can bid on—by attaching sustainable and social purchasing criteria to badly needed public infrastructure upgrades here in Canada.