Opinion

CEOs of fossil fuel companies coming to Ottawa cap in hand for $50 billion of subsidies may be Canada's last chance to put the oilsands on a path to long-term environmental and financial sustainability, writes energy and climate journalist Markham Hislop.

As the crisis manifests, it’s time the provincial government gave its climate plan a reboot, writes columnist Seth Klein.

Canadian leaders need to start designing our border carbon adjustment system now to keep our economy competitive and our climate ambition on track, write Michael Bernstein of Clean Prosperity and development economist Aaron Cosbey.

During the first half of 2021, RBC has been the target of a public pressure campaign spanning from coast to coast — with customers, shareholders, and employees calling on the “worst fossil bank” in Canada to stop financing fossil fuels.

While ongoing delays feel like the same old story for Canada's main environmental law, we cannot let this setback spell the end of Bill C-28, write Larry Barzelai and Jane McArthur of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.

Canadians are united not by hockey or poutine or some other overplayed national stereotype, writes columnist Max Fawcett — they're bound together by unreasonably high cellphone bills.

Countries such as Canada may be required to constrain extraterritorial actions by their own companies or citizens that threaten the environment, writes Ottawa-based climate consultant Geoff Stiles.

The Alberta premier’s United Conservative government is busy implementing quasi-socialist policies on an almost weekly basis, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Many Canadian environmental groups have chosen to applaud the passage of Bill C-12 — while holding their noses over its inadequacies — because they are desperate for any legislation that might help move the federal government to action on the climate crisis, writes Ken Johnson.

If we can dramatically accelerate building retrofits, we will eliminate fossil fuel use in buildings while producing societal benefits, such as improved health and reduced energy poverty, write Brendan Haley and Ralph Torrie, co-authors of a recent Efficiency Canada report.

The recent heat waves and fires sweeping Canada illustrate that the skeletons in the closets of Exxon and all fossil fuel companies have proven more than metaphorical, writes columnist Jesse Firempong.

The party's internecine struggles with leader Annamie Paul are destroying its ability to gain traction when climate is front and centre on the political agenda.

The colonial mindset that claimed a God-given right to steal children, land and resources was the same logic that built an economy based on limitless extraction and consumption, creating the climate catastrophe, writes Avi Lewis, NDP candidate for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country.

Food sovereignty puts the voices and concerns of small farmers — most of whom are women — centre stage, along with fishers, Indigenous Peoples and others marginalized by the global food system, write Eric Chaurette and Gisèle Yasmeen.

For those who fetishize freedom and worship at the altar of liberty, the removal of mask restrictions is probably worth celebrating. But for the rest of us, it marks the beginning of an uncomfortable experiment, writes columnist Max Fawcett.