It’s tough to be optimistic about the future of the news business in Canada.

A successful transition to net zero by 2050 requires a massive, collective mobilization of governments, business, Indigenous leaders and, perhaps most crucially, youth.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2024 budget released on Tuesday continues to make headlines as analysts, pundits and journalists parse through the numbers and proposed policies.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2024 budget Tuesday, with big spending to increase Canada’s housing supply. The only thing keeping the deficit trajectory in check were new taxes, including $19 billion over five years in new capital gains levies on wealthy individuals and corporations – underscoring the extent to which we have fully entered a populist moment in Canadian politics, Theo Argitis writes.

Introducing Means & Ways: A letter from the publisher, Theo Argitis

‘If you look at the Canadian experience, mainly because of a decline in the pulp and paper sector, the annual timber cut has declined by 25 per cent in the last 20 years – but our fire impacts are going up because many of our forests are simply dying,’ says Forest Products Association of Canada CEO Derek Nighbor.

Rural communities are key to Canada's prosperity and high-speed internet access is critical for economic growth