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Financing our future with a green building bonanza
By Gord Hicks and Andrew Hicks
A national energy efficiency stimulus plan would spur jobs, GDP and innovation

	2020 Global 100 Issue Financing our future with a green building bonanza A national energy efficiency stimulus plan would spur jobs, GDP and innovation By Gord Hicks and Andrew Hicks

	Leadership It’s time we see paying taxes as a sustainability issue Instead of asking for tax credits for solar panels, ask if your firm is paying its fair share of taxes By Karie Davis-Nozemack

	Feds’ corporate law reform may create more problems than it solves Instead of making it easier for a board of directors to consider a company’s climate impact, revised act could make it harder By Ed Waitzer

	Leadership Co-operators CEO challenges corporate Canada to ramp up coordinated response to climate crisis Rob Wesseling calls for "all hands on deck" with coordinated corporate push for low-carbon economy

	Climate Crisis It’s time to call climate change what it is – an emergency – and act accordingly Hundreds of Canadian towns lead global push to declare climate emergency. Let's follow with "real action," writes Dianne Saxe

	Waste It’s time Canadian grocers – and governments – get tough on plastics Metro's OKed reusable containers and Montreal might ban Styrofoam-backed meat, but we need nationwide action By Adria Vasil

	Indigenomics in action The $100 billion Indigenous economy is the marker of a new economic reality on which Canada’s future now depends By Carol Anne Hilton

	Leadership PEI’s Green Party poised to win by putting planet and people first If the polls are right, PEI is about to prove to Canada that Green ideas are viable and Green governments are electable By James Marshall

	Spring Issue 2019 Canadian economy can’t succeed if the Indigenous economy fails Enjoying the spectacle of Jody Wilson-Raybould cleaning the floor with the PM? Guess what corporate Canada: you’re next By Toby A.A. Heaps

	Spring Issue 2019 Flawed forecasts: how to fix the clean energy crystal ball So unnervingly consistent is the International Energy Agency's underprediction of renewables, it can itself be predicted By Paul Mainwood

	Leadership ‘Reset’ on Canada’s road to resources First Nations National Energy Strategy is the only way forward to tap Canada’s resource wealth By Bill Gallagher

	Supply Chain Why not even one company is on track to meet 2020 deforestation pledges Hundreds of companies vowed to axe deforestation from their supply chains, but a new report says they're failing forests By Adria Vasil

	Responsible Investing Tim Nash’s sustainable stock showdown: St. Paddy’s Day edition Getting to the bottom of which alcohol company is more sustainable: Constellation Brands or Diageo By Tim Nash

	Leadership Who runs the world? The global status of women in leadership By Sophie L'Helias & Adria Vasil

	Responsible Investing Is your ethical investing app upselling greenwash? 'Animal welfare’ funds heavy in animal testing? Low-carbon funds dripping in oil? Your BS-free green guide to 9 SRI apps By Adria Vasil

	Responsible Investing Tim Nash’s sustainable stock showdown: SNC vs. WSP If you have had enough of scandal-plagued SNC, there are alternatives. How do they measure up? By Tim Nash

	Food Retail stores scramble to deal with hormone disruptor-laced receipts How are Loblaw, Sobeys, Walmart and other top Canadian retailers responding to receipt controversy? CK investigates By Adria Vasil

	Leadership Don’t let SNC axe ‘Maple Leaf Advantage’ It’s time for Ottawa to stop sitting on its hands and bolster corporate accountability checks By Toby A.A. Heaps

	Waste Can Loop’s 21st century milkman fix plastic plague? TerraCycle's new circular shopping platform rescues big packaged brands from PR crisis By Adria Vasil

	Leadership Global 100 eyebrow raisers Big oil and big pharma aren’t everyone’s vision of sustainability superstars. So why are they on CK's Global 100 list? By Adria Vasil