Author: Alicia Rasmussen

To address Canada’s housing affordability crisis successfully, the public and private sectors must work collaboratively on solutions. In this Brief, we outline what is driving the issue, share our perspectives on the roles commercial landlords are uniquely positioned to play in rental housing and our recommendations for how firms can take meaningful action.

Quinn+Partners welcomes Eunho Baek to our growing team, where he will contribute to the firm’s financial and operational excellence as we continue to deliver leading sustainability, climate change and impact advisory services.

Business leaders and investors gathered recently to discuss clean energy, climate finance, nature-based solutions, industrial decarbonization and food system transformation at Climate Week NYC. These themes spanned various industries and highlighted the climate imperative across all aspects of our society and economy.

Quinn+Partners is pleased to announce the release of our 2025 Sustainability Report. In this report, we share how Q+P advanced meaningful change through our team, company operations and client work over the past year.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a day to honour the children who never returned home, the Survivors of residential schools, and their families and communities. Public commemoration of this tragic history and recognition of its ongoing impacts are vital parts of reconciliation. At Quinn+Partners, we pause today to reflect on our own learning journey and share some of the actions we have taken in the last year to advance reconciliation.

Quinn+Partners is pleased to announce that we have again been included in The Globe and Mail’s annual ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies, placing 276 overall in 2025.

As 2030 nears, climate transition plans have emerged as a way for organizations to plan and communicate their efforts to achieve their climate ambitions. Transition plans are strategies for aligning business activities with the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. Like any business strategy, they play a role in clarifying objectives, setting key performance indicators (KPIs) and outlining resourcing and accountabilities to inform broader strategies. Canada’s largest banks have all released their latest climate-related disclosures, detailing progress on their transition plans. Below are our key takeaways on the state-of-play of climate transition planning for Canadian FIs and our recommendations for how FIs can prioritize their climate efforts throughout the balance of 2025.

The 2025 Social Finance Forum brought together a diverse community of 500+ investors, philanthropists, community leaders, entrepreneurs and enablers working to grow Canada’s economic systems with purpose. Held in Toronto in mid-June, the Forum served as a powerful reminder that there remains a strong and growing commitment to advancing positive social and environmental outcomes related to Indigenous reconciliation, equity, climate, food and housing through finance, even in a complex economic and political landscape.

To navigate the transition to a low-carbon economy, financial institutions must have a clear, credible understanding of the climate-related risks and opportunities tied to their investment portfolio.