natural resources

Does Canada’s Arctic strategy undermine cooperation with allies and adversaries there, ask Michael Howlett and Nigel Kinney.

Michael Howlett and Nigel Kinney on the two large steps Canada can take to alter the existing domestic energy mix.

Andrew Grant on Canada’s past contribution to provide global public goods.

A good first step for Canada: damage control. By Michael Howlett and Nigel Kinney.

Less regulation is not the answer, says Andrew Grant.

How many times do Canadian governments need to be told to save more resource revenues before the message sinks in, asks Madelaine Drohan.

Andrew Grant on what he considers the greatest challenge facing policymakers in Ottawa regarding natural resources.

The situation in the DRC is incredibly complicated. The solutions will need to be just as sophisticated says Marie Lamensch.

The disorderly development of Canada’s oil resources benefits today’s economy, but will leave little for future generations, says Daniel Trefler.

While other countries have created sovereign wealth funds to collect resource revenue, Canada has failed to do so. Matt Gouett outlines how successive governments have avoided proper fiscal management of our natural resource wealth.

Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon challenges conceptions of the Arctic as a realm of contestation rather than cooperation.

Ralph Pentland, author of Down the Drain: How we are Failing to Protect our Water Resources, debunks three of the biggest myths about Canada’s water resources.

Natural resources are playing an important role in Africa’s economic growth. Experts from NSI’s Ottawa Forum explain why governance of the extractive industry is critical if the benefits and risks are to be shared equitably.

Jennifer Jeffs on the strong policy recommendations made in the new Chatham House report Resource Futures.

Jennifer Jeffs introduces the CIC’s report on Canada’s resource sector.

John Hancock speculates on the fate of the Canadian economy if commodity prices fall.