Opinion

What the average person rarely thinks about is the massive impact PPE is having on the already vast waste stream of plastic, particularly in industrialized societies, writes columnist Warren Bell.

Not a single government is fully prepared to help deliver a safe climate — despite the fact national emissions have only dropped by one per cent since 2005, write Prof. Thomas Gunton and the Pembina Institute's Isabelle Turcotte.

While Canada has stabilized its fossil fuel emissions at home, it is also exporting more emissions than ever before, writes Ecojustice lawyer Fraser Thomson.

It’s hard to miss as commissioner Steve Allan’s inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns tries to spin the conspiracy straw it was handed into political gold, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Historical monuments serve to valorize the past, not preserve it, and so it hardly counts as historical revisionism to wish to change the name of a school, writes Andrew Kemle, a master's student in political science at the University of Calgary.

The atmosphere doesn’t discern between carbon emitted from forests and carbon from fossil fuels — but Canada does, writes Jennifer Skene of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The so-called natural gas "bridge" to a low-carbon future might have just become a bridge too far, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The gentle approach is not going to get us to herd immunity. It's time to impose stronger measures to encourage vaccinations, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

CEOs of fossil fuel companies coming to Ottawa cap in hand for $50 billion of subsidies may be Canada's last chance to put the oilsands on a path to long-term environmental and financial sustainability, writes energy and climate journalist Markham Hislop.

Canadian leaders need to start designing our border carbon adjustment system now to keep our economy competitive and our climate ambition on track, write Michael Bernstein of Clean Prosperity and development economist Aaron Cosbey.

As the crisis manifests, it’s time the provincial government gave its climate plan a reboot, writes columnist Seth Klein.

During the first half of 2021, RBC has been the target of a public pressure campaign spanning from coast to coast — with customers, shareholders, and employees calling on the “worst fossil bank” in Canada to stop financing fossil fuels.

Canadians are united not by hockey or poutine or some other overplayed national stereotype, writes columnist Max Fawcett — they're bound together by unreasonably high cellphone bills.

While ongoing delays feel like the same old story for Canada's main environmental law, we cannot let this setback spell the end of Bill C-28, write Larry Barzelai and Jane McArthur of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.