Analysis

As the return to school looms, teachers and their unions can draw on several legal avenues if they feel unsafe in the classroom or unable to work due to the pandemic.

The debate over hydrogen is a colourful one ranging from green to black.

It’s crucial that we don’t accelerate deeper into danger, like we did after the last recession.

David Suzuki, Catherine McKenna, Tzeporah Berman, Bruce Lourie, Graham Saul, Noam Chomsky on the fork in the road: a conversation series broadly agreed on some of the principles for post-pandemic Canada. Invest in green energy that can replace fossil fuels. Electrify the supply and distribution of power. Don’t subsidize or bail out big gas and oil companies.

The question of how to deal with education sits at the centre of the province’s reopening dilemma, since anything less than a full return to classes makes it difficult for working parents who have for months been juggling both the working and the parenting.

Top political analysts Bruce Livesey and Sandy Garossino join Linda Solomon Wood to tackle wide-ranging questions about the conservative movement on both sides of the border.

At the beginning of 2020, voters were increasingly turning away from the Ontario government’s lack of climate action. But now, COVID-19 has changed everything. Could Doug Ford use a new burst of political goodwill to deliver a robust climate plan?

And as Canada struggles to meet its medium- and long-term targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the transportation sector must be part of the overall plan.

Critics have a long list of suggestions for Education Minister Stephen Lecce and the school boards charged with turning government policy into practice.

Chomsky avoids the trap of blaming America's woes on a single politician, no matter how destructive and venal.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) labelled glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” More than 50 million kilograms of glyphosate were sold in Canada in 2017.

George Floyd moved to Minneapolis to seek a better life. In the last week, we’ve come to learn that the 46-year-old Texan was a gentle giant and beloved son, brother and father; a former star football and basketball player at Jack Yates High School in Houston, and a musician who played a key role in one of the great southern rap traditions.

Canada’s universities and colleges face challenges on multiple fronts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the solutions may include sharing more and hiring less, a discussion paper from the Royal Bank of Canada says. Student and faculty unions are dubious.

Protesters across Canada this weekend joined those south of the border in standing up against police brutality in the wake of the death of a young Black woman in Toronto.