Opinion

There are many Canadian clean tech manufacturing and innovation firms, but they have not got the government support they need to achieve stock market status, nor have they acquired private financing of the order of magnitude potential witnessed elsewhere.

Truly, in this season filled with economic distress and border closures, masks and militias, snake oil salesmen and demagoguery, the news from America can seem like an assault.

Forty per cent of plastic ends up as waste in the oceans, as litter on the land, and disposed of by uncontrolled burning. Less than 10 percent of plastics is really recycled.

Oil and gas industries employ millions of people; therefore, governments and politicians tend to neglect future growth opportunities in favour of short-term, vote-garnering decisions. 

Canadians may be unaware of the many critical COVID-19 projects that rely on work in collaboration with various branches of engineering and science.

Michael Shellenberger's new book focuses more on the alleged dangers posed by those fighting climate change than climate change itself.

As countries prepare to announce ambition-raising climate actions for the 2020-2025 period, it is critical that Canada does its part to increase both the quantity and quality of its climate finance. 

Erin O'Toole's six priorities are hit-and-miss, and revert back to traditional technological solutions in the energy sector while missing many of the important economy-wide measures to help the regions of Canada without oil.

Of course, convincing Justin Trudeau to defund Trans Mountain won’t happen overnight. But if the NDP brings the pipeline into their negotiations with Trudeau, it will force a national conversation about Canada’s post-pandemic priorities.

Private or public security forces are regularly deployed in support of extractive companies and to the detriment of the rights of women land defenders.

This is no time for half measures or pilot projects. For this plan to work, we must spend big. And that is where Chrystia Freeland must shine. 

The act of producing journalism is predicated on upholding high ethical standards, which demands that information gathered during the reporting process be presented accurately, fairly and transparently for public consideration. 

Our lives as Indigenous and especially Indigenous women are in endless danger.