Opinion

Nuclear energy is greener than renewables and safer than fossil fuels. But people seldom make decisions based on facts, writes freelance science journalist Tyler J. Kelley.

This silliness around ‘15-minute cities’ will die down in due course, writes columnist Max Fawcett. Still, it speaks to a larger problem that won’t go away any time soon.

Simply put, the provinces haven’t been doing their share of the heavy lifting — even though health care is their responsibility.

Alicia Richins is a sustainability and social impact consultant based in Toronto, and a fierce advocate of the United Nations' sustainable development goals, or SDGs.

Rachel Notley's NDP is suddenly trailing the United Conservative Party — and the provincial election is just a few months away. Can she turn things around before it's too late?

Despite its vast environmental, economic and social significance, the ocean continues to be largely taken for granted.

The Trudeau Liberals are at their lowest ebb since winning the 2015 election. If they want to win the next one, they'll have to stop making mistakes — and start telling their own story better.

Coal mining may be on hold in Alberta, but clear-cut logging will increase in a region where the downstream agriculture industry can ill afford to damage its watershed.

In pausing the expansion of MAID, the government has taken a baby step in the right direction, but it still does not seem to get it: too much time is spent considering who should die, rather than how to help people live.

If anyone needs an example of the dangers associated with cutting back on rules and regulations, they need only look at Michael and Doug Ford’s Ontario, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Left-wing political parties must build a multi-racial, working-class coalition for progressive change dedicated to real, measurable, material improvement in the lives of ordinary people, writes Jen Hassum.

Her entry into environmental justice came by chance in 2012 when an activist asked Ingrid Waldron to research environmental racism in Nova Scotia.

The Canadian Environmental Protection Act is woefully inadequate at protecting people’s bodies from present-day environmental health harms, writes Honour Stahl of the Women's Healthy Environments Network.

The longer people are fed that sort of toxic nonsense, the more likely it is that it winds up in the head of someone who could do something about it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Oil companies are asking the federal government to allow them to release the tailings into the Athabasca River, which flows north into one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world.