Opinion

While governments around the world are part of the growing fossil fuel divestment momentum Canadian financial institutions and governments are still betting on fossil fuels. 

Was it too much to ask that the family make it through just one day of unimaginable grief without someone dredging that up?  In 2020, yes it was.

Global-warming-induced crises like the fires in Australia will hopefully trigger a long-overdue change in consciousness.

Stephen Harper’s tough-on-crime laws have plunged sentencing into a legal quagmire that is playing out in the courts today.

I feel I must speak out for the sake of my beloved fans, the “beluga grads” and their kids, on the climate emergency we all face.

Fisheries and Oceans needs to take an ecosystem-based approach to herring fishery management and reduce the focus on maximizing harvests.

Members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation have fought for many years to keep three pipelines from running through their land in northern B.C. At stake, the protesters say, is their way of life, their culture and their system of governance which was recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada in the landmark Delgamuukw decision in 1997.  

It is important in times of crisis to look to history for solutions. The model of Second World War mobilization in Canada demonstrates the incredible capacity of people and society to change rapidly, to adapt and plan and to successfully navigate and survive crises.

I am a climate scientist on holiday in the Blue Mountains, watching climate change in action

In place of the elite, nimble fact-checking bureau Premier Jason Kenney had promised for Alberta’s oil and gas sector, the war room appears instead to be building the media equivalent of a roaring $30-million bonfire of government money in front of the legislature.

Foreign mining and energy companies that invest in the region have a responsibility to help safeguard local activists.

Climate Action Network Canada members and allies respond to COP25 outcome