While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Catherine McKenna.
Catherine McKenna on misogyny, rage farming, and the toll of online violence in Canadian politics. IN MY FORTIES, I decided to run for public office. We built an amazing team over two years with a hard-core grassroots campaign. Our motto was “Run Like a Girl.” And I won. I was appointed minister of the environment and climate change in 201...
Parliament has returned. Like kids heading back to school, MPs return to their desks — only not with textbooks, but with talking points and attack lines. But like students who may have struggled the year before, many arrive promising themselves they’ll do better this time.
In 1987, U.S. president Ronald Reagan and prime minister Brian Mulroney stood side by side to announce the Montreal Protocol, one of the world’s most successful treaties, which would cut the use of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. Four years later, Mulroney would stand next to Reagan’s successor, president George H.W. Bush, to announce the Canada-United States Air Quality Agreement, which would dramatically...
If you look at the widely circulated photo of leaders from the climate conference COP28 celebrating the UAE Consensus in Dubai, you would be forgiven for thinking that the negotiating process and its outcomes were almost entirely the result of the work of a small, elite group of men. And you would be totally wrong.
This summer scorched the Earth, breaking heat records globally and setting off wildfires that choked North American cities with smoke. Article content And Suncor chief executive officer Rich Kruger? He chose this moment to announce that his company will double down on oil sands production and sideline its renewables strategy.
