Victoria Foote

Dec 23, 2024 | corporateknights.com | Victoria Foote

Logistics companies in Canada have been experiencing an unusually busy holiday season this year. Soaring online purchases and a Canada Post strike sent orders for door-to-door deliveries flooding in to Purolator and UPS, which had to temporarily pause shipments to clear the backlog, according to The Globe and Mail and other media outlets. However, one courier service that has managed to keep pace is nrbi, which deploys a fleet of electric cargo bikes in Toronto and Vancouver.

Dec 5, 2024 | corporateknights.com | Victoria Foote

Aniseh Sharifi spent the better part of the past six years trying to convince an unyielding condo board they should invest in electric vehicle charging infrastructure. “A big reason for moving out of my condo was to get a charger,” she tells Corporate Knights. Sharifi says that she was not the only tenant in her building, located in Toronto’s east end, to make such a request. Other EV owners submitted similar pleas and all were told that the board had other priorities.

Oct 28, 2024 | corporateknights.com | Victoria Foote

For more than a century, Algoma Steel forged its namesake in coal-fuelled blast furnaces at its Sault Ste. Marie plant in Northern Ontario. Now, if all goes according to plan, Canada’s second-largest steelmaker will be forging all that metal in electric arc furnaces by year-end. The company, which supplies sheet metal to the auto industry, says the move will cut carbon emissions from production by approximately 70%, a reduction equivalent to each year.

Aug 21, 2024 | pembina.org | Victoria Foote

Purolator’s brightly coloured "Mini-Hub," located on St. George Street on the University of Toronto’s downtown campus, is a busy operation. Wrapped in Purolator’s branding, the 40-foot re-purposed shipping container serves as a central distribution centre for last-mile parcel deliveries, a store front where packages can be dropped off and picked up, and a storage facility for Purolator bikes. But not just any bikes.

Dec 20, 2023 | pembina.org | Chris Severson-Baker |Courtney Smith |Victoria Foote

Chris Severson-Baker at the Alberta Climate Summit. Photo: Roberta Franchuk, Pembina Institute We may look back at 2023 as the year that the world turned the corner on climate action.