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For fossil fuel firms, greenwashing is just good business
Greenwashing — the marketing spin that tries to convince us that products and services are “green” or “sustainable” — is running rampant in Canada. But attempts to protect Canadian consumers through amendments to the federal Competition Act have sparked outrage from the fossil fuel industry and its friends in Ottawa.
Competition Act reform: modernization cannot ignore sustainability
The single most important challenge facing all levels of society—including business—over the next 30 years is the transformation to a sustainable, net-zero economy in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Competition Act cannot be modernized if it does not reflect this reality.
Temper, Waters, Wines and Barnes: Big oil and gas should not be sponsoring Winterlude
How ironic was it that when ice sculptures melted in the streets and the Rideau Canal was shuttered, Enbridge Gas, Canada’s largest methane gas distribution company, was one of the festival’s main sponsors?
Comment: False advertising must never again sabotage climate action
The fossil fuel industry used false advertising and biased industry-funded science to kill proposed regulations a quarter century ago.
Doctors demand ban on fossil fuel ads to save lives
It is the ultimate irony that as Canada celebrated Clean Air Day on June 7, the country was experiencing the worst air quality in the world. In the past few weeks, millions of people from B.C. to Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia have faced suffocating wildfire smoke, resulting in difficulty breathing, exacerbation of heart disease and potential harm to pregnant women and their children.