Opinion

By unlocking the power potential of households and businesses, we can ensure a reliable and cost-effective electricity system that depends less on gas.

Canadians want reassurance people in Ottawa are ready to defend our values against Donald Trump's tirades. It is deeply disconcerting this is not happening.

Natasha Kumari cleans up after mining companies. This 31-year-old from Burnaby, British Columbia, is vice president of marketing and operations for Tersa Earth, which uses nature-based solutions to clean the water in mining tailings ponds and reuse the minerals. 

Ontarians are set to spend roughly one out of every five days in 2025 an election. It’s going to be tiring, obnoxious, and cynical stuff.

Can we be confident that carbon capture and storage can deliver safe, permanent carbon sequestration?

I spent some time this fall on northern Vancouver Island preparing new episodes of The Salmon People podcast

Regardless of which party forms our next government, we will need strong journalism holding decision makers' feet to the fire. Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are threatening to unwind most climate policies, seeing climate change as a cultural wedge issue to rile up their base. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau’s beleaguered Liberals have introduced a number of climate policies, but they’re often too weak. We are not yet on track to meet our targets.

We funded National Observer through crowdfunding and a handful of "social impact" investors who knew they might never see a return beyond social good. In one of North America's least affordable cities, we found an affordable space in a building we came to call The Save the World Building - or, on darker days, The Building of Lost Causes

Unlike his father, who also left office amid widespread unpopularity but had just repatriated the Constitution and created the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it’s not clear what this Trudeau government’s legacy will be — nor how the Liberal Party should try to sell it.

Canada needs a well-thought-out plan to ensure that only hydrogen projects that work for our environment, our economy and our people are developed.

Canada’s National Observer provides rigorous evidence-based journalism that demands our attention and invites citizens to demonstrably think and defend our democracy.

Ankur Patel, a 21-year-old nursing student from Terrace, British Columbia, is helping nurses see care for the planet as care for people.

You’re kind of unusual. Don’t be offended — I think I must be too.

Liberal governments have gotten most big policies right but many smaller policies wrong.