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Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Northvolt AB, the Swedish battery maker building a $7-billion factory in Quebec, said on Monday it will shrink its operations in Europe and cut jobs as [...]

Not all institutions agree whether a green taxonomy should include new natural gas exploration and production among certified transition-related investments, Canadian institutional investors are growing impatient that Ottawa has yet to formalize a guidebook for sustainable finance, according to a new survey, with some saying the country risks losing out [...]

Battery maker’s announcement comes as several auto makers temper plans to slow rollout and expansion of electric vehicles, Northvolt AB, the Swedish battery maker building a $7-billion factory in Quebec, said on Monday it will shrink its operations in Europe and cut jobs as a slowdown in electric-vehicle [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff ESG AND SUSTAINABLE FINANCE REPORTER Canadian institutional investors are growing impatient that Ottawa has yet to formalize a guidebook for sustainable finance, according to a new [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Algoma Steel Inc.'s smokestacks have been a fixture on the bank of the St. Marys River at the eastern end of Lake Superior for more than [...]

The 5,200-square-metre facility, scheduled for completion by the end of 2025, is aimed at bolstering reliability of power grids and industrial electricity storage, Malahat Nation and Energy Plug Technologies Corp. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/PLUG-CN/ are launching construction on a $57-million battery assembly factory on Vancouver Island, a venture the First Nation hopes will provide it with [...]

The board did not give specifics behind Charles-Antoine St-Jean’s departure, saying only that ‘this decision reflects his personal priorities’, The chair of the organization in charge of overseeing Canada’s adoption of international sustainability reporting standards has stepped down, prompting a search for a replacement at a key time in [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES, MARIEKE WALSH, ERIC ATKINS CALGARY, OTTAWA, TORONTO -- Canada's unionized railway workers on Friday urged the federal labour tribunal to back their right to strike, adding more [...]

Although CN has declared its lockout over, the union issued a strike notice at the Montreal-based rail carrier for Monday at 10 a.m. ET, Canada’s unionized railway workers on Friday urged the federal labour tribunal to back their right to strike, adding more risk that Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. and Canadian National Railway [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Canadian lumber industry and government officials say they will defend the country's economic interests as they seek a resolution after the U.S. Department of Commerce nearly [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. said on Friday it agreed to sell its renewable energy business for up to US$2.5-billion in a quest to pay down [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Matt Price doesn't wield the financial clout of a big-time investor, but when it comes to efforts to hold major companies accountable for their environmental pledges, [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF, JEFFREY JONES A carbon-reduction startup created by one of Canada's most successful technology entrepreneurs has unveiled its first three projects to capture climatewarming greenhouse gas from the [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES, EMMA GRANEY Increasingly destructive wildfires, like the one that ravaged Jasper, are taking their toll on the country's tourism industry, forcing operators to prepare for emergencies and [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Some of Canada's largest institutional investors support quick adoption of a slate of new sustainability reporting standards while energy and mining companies want disclosure to remain [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES, EMMA GRANEY CALGARY -- Canadian National Railway Co. suspended freight service on its main line through Jasper, Alta., and other companies took stock of the impact from [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff The federal ethics commissioner has ruled the former chair of Sustainable Development Technology Canada contravened conflictof-interest rules when she failed to recuse herself from funding decisions [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Adoption of new international sustainability reporting standards is moving quicker than expected, with countries accounting for more than 55 per cent of global GDP, including Canada, [...]

The number of jurisdictions enforcing reporting rules for bolstering climate finance and eliminating greenwashing continues to rise, a year after the International Sustainability Standards Board’s first published them, Adoption of new international sustainability reporting standards is moving quicker than expected, with countries accounting for more than 55 per cent of global GDP, including Canada, signing on to the [...]