Opinion

Ask journalists and they’ll tell you the numbers revealed in a recent information commissioner’s report are the norm, rather than the exception, says Brett Jolly, national president of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

The federal fiscal update unveiled Monday is a chance to address the current crisis but also move into the rebuild phases of this pandemic, says David Macdonald, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

"Over millennia, we have developed confidence that we will overcome challenges with each other," says 32-year-old La'goot (Spencer Greening). "Yes, you face fear and worry in times of a changing climate, but you have faith that you can overcome together."

The economic decline will not end until people believe it is safe to resume their pre-COVID activities, say the Smart Prosperity Institute's Mike Moffatt and John McNally.

Not all people of colour are — or want to be — activists, so let's stop pigeonholing them, says Aysha Tabassum.

Students have been ignored for far too long, and it is time the city considers students in Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis, says SFU student Ashley Holyk.

The news industry’s job is to shine light in dark places, says Karyn Pugliese, a.k.a. Pabàmàdiz. When the spotlight illuminates our own shortcomings, we mustn’t look away.

If we want to get to net zero by 2050, we first have to get to roughly half as many emissions in 2030 as in 2010, Elizabeth May says.

Meet ​'Cúagilákv (Jess Housty), a 34-year-old Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) change-maker helping to promote food security and self-reliance in Bella Bella, B.C.

It is surprising to find an inconsistent, and occasionally non-existent, application of risk communication practices by those leading the COVID-19 response in many Canadian jurisdictions, says Cathy Slavik.

Why should REITs and corporate landlords be made whole through COVID-19 when so many other businesses are taking losses?

The federal government’s upcoming fall fiscal update will look like no other in Canadian history. With an already record $343-billion deficit and significant promises still to fulfil from the Liberals’ September throne speech, the cost of COVID-19 is mounting.

It was former prime minister Pierre Trudeau who once described sharing a border with America as akin to sleeping with an elephant. “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast,” he said, “one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”

By consciously making space for women in the green recovery from COVID-19, we’ll find new pathways for fixing the economic and ecological imbalances with which our society is reckoning, write Jesse Firempong and Lydie Padilla.

Meet Vanessa Corkal, a sustainable development researcher who's not afraid to ask the big questions.