The silent culprit in the monarch's decline
Ending the “radio silence” on wireless radiation should be a late-breaking research topic for Canadian leadership as the country hosts the COP15 biodiversity conference, writes Meg Sears.
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We need to protect endangered ecosystems to protect endangered species
The outcome of the global gathering in Montreal may be our last best hope for nature, writes Dan Kraus.
Time to take on the hoarding class
Amid all this suffering — what we’ve been through and what’s to come — there is one statistic that marches ever upward: corporate profits, Avi Lewis writes.
Jude Sampson finds climate resilience in community-building
In high school, Sampson co-led the organizing of 10,000 people in the 2019 Fridays for Future Halifax climate strikes. This 20-year-old is now encouraging their university, Dalhousie, to divest from fossil fuels.
Winter is coming, and Germany faces the consequences of relying on Russian energy
Germany's dependence on Russian oil and gas has left the country uniquely exposed to the Kremlin's attempts to use energy as a weapon, write Francesca Schulz-Bianco and Jacqueline Koerner.
Message to Freeland: Disney+ subscriptions are not the reason Canadians are struggling
People aren’t picking between Disney+ or Netflix, they’re choosing between which bills they can and can’t pay, writes NDP MP Niki Ashton.
Danielle Smith declares war on the rule of law
Now that Bill 1 is tabled in the Alberta legislature, the question is which will die first: Danielle Smith's government or the province's rule of law, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
The Order of Ontario rewards a climate villain
By continuing to fund fossil fuel expansion, RBC is complicit in robbing us of a livable future, write Jordan Thaker, Dani Michie and Amy Mann.
The commission is over, but the ‘Freedom Convoy’ rolls on
Anything short of a summary conviction of the Prime Minister and his closest advisers will be spun by the convoy’s leaders and their various enablers as a betrayal of democracy, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
RBC's Reconciliation Week sponsorship looks different than RBC at Wedzin Kwa
RBC was an “exclusive presenting sponsor” of the annual Truth and Reconciliation Week this year. But as construction crews continue to build Coastal GasLink on Wet'suwet'en territory, Greg Macdougall writes, the problem was in starker view.
Polarized Politics
A discussion with former Alberta Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Donna Kennedy Glans on politics, oil and gas (of course!) and Danielle Smith's brand of populism.
Why Thomas Clark is turning flies and food waste into face cream
This 29-year-old is disrupting the beauty industry by using oil from flies that consume food waste to make beauty products.
We are living on borrowed time. Will the G20 rise to our collective futures?
A systemic rethink of the G20’s fit for purpose is warranted. We desperately need meaningful multilateralism to restore humanity’s path towards common prosperity.
Canada’s record on government transparency isn’t looking so hot
We’ve seen significant public attention paid to transparency of government action concerning the Emergencies Act. Transparency matters across all levels of government.
Beware Pierre
The latest video from the Conservative Party of Canada leader, shot in front of a makeshift tent city near the Port of Vancouver, might be his most cynical and depraved yet, writes columnist Max Fawcett.