Opinion

Without a beneficial ownership registry that is publicly accessible, it is difficult to know if a company representative is a tax dodger, a drug trafficker or a recently sanctioned Russian oligarch.

The old-growth forests of B.C. are the cooling systems, air filters and oxygen supply for Vancouver Island and the mainland. So why are governments still allowing ancient trees to be felled?

For those concerned about animal welfare, facilities like Porgreg red-flag the negligence of government agencies tasked with ensuring farmers meet the physical and emotional needs of their animals.

Indigenous studies have matured into powerful mechanisms for ensuring a level of societal knowledge and practice for Indigenous graduates that is unprecedented since colonization.

Canadians should be paying particularly close attention to the Jan. 6 committee hearings taking place in Washington, D.C., writes columnist Max Fawcett.

We need a larger focus on policies and initiatives that place persons with disabilities in jobs, help them afford post-secondary education, connect them with affordable housing and support them if they are struggling.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is what it looks like when we privatize the profits and socialize the risk of energy production.

The only people who seem to oppose this long-overdue change in drug strategy are the ones who keep talking about how much they love freedom and liberty.

The experience of national non-profit organization Generation Squeeze in the Ontario election underscores why anemic turnout should reinvigorate debate about a bill pushed through Ontario’s legislature in June 2021 limiting what’s called “third-party advertising.”  

Most people are looking for housing that is affordable, secure and part of a community. Co-operative housing fits this bill. 

At a time when the public’s engagement with our democratic process is at a dangerously low ebb, mandatory voting can help restore faith in our political institutions and system, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Oil was seen as the province’s path to economic independence. Is that still the case?

To be fair to both Del Duca and Horwath, however, Ford was always going to be hard to beat.

June 3 marks the anniversary of the 2021 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People National Action Plan. Where is the action?

Citing Natural Resources Canada, Pollution Probe’s Richard Carlson says an average household uses about 900 kilowatt hours of energy annually for drying clothes.