Opinion

It’s no secret developers want to build in Ontario's Greenbelt. If the provincial government opens the door to allowing land swaps, there will be no way to close this door again. 

It was important for countries at COP27 to name the so-called elephant in the room — oil and gas — the main cause of climate change, write Keith Brooks and Dave Gray-Donald.

When it comes to Danielle Smith’s view of how to fix the health-care system, it would be every Albertan for themselves, says columnist Max Fawcett.

When youth lend their voices and expertise to the decision-making spaces that disproportionately impact their future, they increasingly search for policies and programs that amplify their needs.

This 26-year-old Montreal-based PhD student at McGill University works at BrainBox AI, which uses artificial intelligence to help buildings use energy efficiently.

By procuring construction products with a lower carbon footprint, governments can effectively support a sizable market for clean building products. This approach is referred to as “Buy Clean."

Trudeau's ability to provoke completely irrational responses in the people who dislike him most was evident after his public dispute with Chinese president Xi Jinping.

I dearly hope David Eby takes a bunch of Anjali Appadurai’s bold ideas and makes them his own, writes Seth Klein.

A rising chorus of youth voices is growing across the front lines of climate change as they demand “loss and damage finance — now!”

Despite a number of polls showing the UCP trailing Rachel Notley’s NDP, Danielle Smith seems determined to keep pushing unpopular ideas and polarizing policies.

Inaction on grid renewal is a dangerous combination of denial and delay, which ultimately results in infrastructure not being in place when wide-scale electrification begins to grow exponentially.

Should we treat the climate emergency like a war? Seth Klein thinks so. In his book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, he lays out a comparison between the Second World War and the climate crisis. He argues that we can't win the war unless we work together like we did in the war against the Nazis. Max Fawcett challenges that idea.

To impress upon policymakers and the public the need to simultaneously balance short- and medium-term climate priorities, we need a more powerful narrative.

Wearing a mask in crowded public settings for a few weeks is hardly the affront that the loud and selfish would like us to believe, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

This editorial calling for action from world leaders on the climate crisis is published today by more than 30 media organizations in more than 20 countries