Steve Smith Articles

Roughly seven percent of all Canadian households have high energy burdens, meaning they spend more than 10 percent of their annual income on energy costs. These energy burdens weigh especially heavily on visible minority households, including Black, Asian and First...

One of the biggest obstacles to wider adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is range anxiety and “charging deserts,” or disadvantaged areas where public charging stations are not readily available. Currently, there are 5,000 EV charging stations in Canadas. There is no...

The transportation sector is the second largest CO2 producer in Canada, just behind the oil and gas industry. In a move to lower the country's current emission rates, the Government of Canada has taken immediate actions to reduce CO2 emissions to net-zero by 2050...