Opinion

A Just Transition Act needs to invest first and foremost in those communities bearing the brunt of both climate change and the fossil fuel industry, writes Cameron Fenton, Canada team lead with 350.org.

Despite the extremely low risks that approved COVID-19 vaccines pose to health compared to COVID-19 itself, these concerns need to be treated as valid by health experts and vaccine decision-makers because they are justified, writes PhD candidate Cathy Slavik. 

Democracies are fragile and can fail when power-hungry leaders practise dog-whistle politics, writes Andrea Reimer.

Human behaviour is finally on the table as a factor in epidemic coronavirus infection, writes family physician Warren Bell.

The government of Alberta has invested more than a billion dollars in the Keystone XL pipeline. If the project goes down, the money vanishes with it, writes Max Fawcett.

In 2019, Sebastien Molgat, now 23, created the Arctic Youth Network with an international team of young people. And he has bigger plans for the future.

"This is a moment for the NDP and Bloc Québécois to use the powers and influence this minority Parliament affords them to demand improvements" to Canada's climate accountability legislation, writes Seth Klein.

While no single Christian denomination has fallen entirely to conspiratorial thinking, those individuals who have often come from hardline conservative traditions, PressProgress reporter Alex Cosh writes.

Protected areas are home to more than three-quarters of Ontario’s species at risk, but shockingly few plans to manage them actually contain actions to protect or even track their populations, writes Katie Krelove, Ontario campaigner for the Wilderness Committee.

The Conservative Party of Canada has a full-blown case of Trumpism, Canada's National Observer columnist Max Fawcett writes, and the real question its members need to answer is whether it’s terminal or not.

When Miklos Alvaro Sunario saw some of his classmates struggling with math online, he started a free tutoring service to help them succeed.

The year 2020 witnessed the intersection of the global pandemic, anti-Black racism and the climate crisis. How do we overcome the crisis? The Jewish faith tradition has some hopeful teachings that can help with the answers.

Julian Brave NoiseCat watched as America's already frayed democracy was further shredded this week. Doubts and fears remain.

When it comes to the Alberta government’s fondness for personal responsibility, one thing should be clear by now: They only think it applies to other people, not themselves, writes Max Fawcett.

If the least surprising thing in the world is that a mob of Trump extremists would storm the U.S. House and Senate as they met to confirm the president-elect, the most shocking was that it would be so easy, writes Sandy Garossino.