Opinion

With inequality growing, would Canadians benefit from taxing the richest among us?

The country is choosing to ignore the signs of a global evolution to a green economy at its own peril. 

"When we start to act, hope is everywhere," climate activist Greta Thunberg said. "So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then the hope will come."

When fires cause your community to have to evacuate, climate change ceases to be an abstract political issue and instead becomes something personal.

From cutting costs to fighting pollution, everyone wins when Canadians and businesses waste less energy.

With the federal election a mere four months away, the most important information for people to have is a clear sense of which federal parties have a real plan to tackle the climate crisis ⁠— and we need it before heading to the polls on October 21. 

Ottawa spends billions subsidizing the corporate sector but somehow never manages to find money to help its own citizens.

A UBC professor objects to Sandy Garossino's recent column, in which she argues the Trans Mountain expansion is integral to the Liberals' climate strategy.

The United States military is one of the world's largest climate polluters — bigger than entire countries like Sweden. Alberta's oilsands industry emits even more.

Like Donald Trump’s latest idiotic tweet, climate change is trending. But, as usual, communities of colour are back of the bus when it comes to environmental protection in Canada, writes Erica Ifill. 

Cancelling the pipeline expansion wouldn't have affected emissions, but the Liberals' $70-billion climate plan will ⁠— provided they're in power long enough to implement it.

Here are the claims worthy of debunking from Trudeau’s pipeline approval speech, writes Sven Biggs.

Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, writes on plastic's key role in the global waste crisis and the role industry in the Great Lakes region can play in turning it around.

Roots of deadly Winnipeg General Strike as relevant today as ever

The key to our elections is not the relatively small number of voters tied to a single party but the much larger number of 'butterfly voters,' who are open to as many as three parties.