Opinion

Whether it's chemtrails, "15-minute cities" or the right to remain unvaccinated, there's seemingly no rabbit hole so deep that Alberta's premier won't go down it in search of votes in the upcoming UCP leadership review.

Politics used to be about attracting the best and brightest to the challenge of public service. Now, some of its practitioners seem determined to scare them off.

For Truth and Reconciliation Day, we should also ask ourselves: Are inaccurate understandings of certain procedures preventing me from having a proper comprehension of Indigenous peoples’ experiences?

A remarkable force in global campaigns for human rights and environmental sanity, Kumi Naidoo is the new president of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative.

The problem with the government’s plan to build more highways, though, is that it doesn’t actually solve anything. The money is wasted because traffic only gets worse.

Divya Dey is connecting Black, Indigenous, and women of colour to nature.

The arguments against electric vehicles get weaker by the day. When will the people making them give it up?

David Eby and Jagmeet Singh are trashing the single tax policy that, through its enforced neutrality, has actually put more money back in the hands of low-income voters.

But perhaps the worst housing idea Rustad has shared is his pledge to create a new tax deduction of up to $3,000 per month for mortgage and rent payments that would cost the provincial treasury $3.5 billion in foregone revenue

The finding that logging is a high-emitting sector runs counter to longstanding claims by both industry and governments that logging in Canada is “sustainable” and a low-carbon climate solution.

There is no doubt the climate movement has struggled to regain the pre-pandemic mass momentum of 2019, when real victories seemed near at hand. However, a key value of such rallies is to break through feelings of isolation.

We cannot reach net-zero by 2050 without carbon removal solutions.

For anyone who complained about Jason Kenney’s shoddy leadership in Alberta, it’s a useful reminder that no matter how bad things may seem, they can always get worse. We’re about to get another example of that, it seems, as Danielle Smith's UCP government greases the skids for a massive bailout of the oil and gas industry and its growing inventory of unreclaimed and orphaned wells.

During a recent televised speech to his MPs, Poilievre spat out the carbon word more than twice per minute.

Marcelle Moreira dos Santos and Khushi Khosla started DreamStill to revolutionize sustainable fashion by developing an app to guide textile reuse and a robot-assisted textile waste sorting system.