Opinion

With opioid deaths surging, the province’s decision to shut down the McCullough Centre in Gunn is just the latest example of the governing United Conservative Party’s callous disregard for the lives of people coping with addiction in Alberta, writes Susan Slade, a vice-president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees.

Matt Humphrey — an Anglican priest, writer and educator who lives, works and plays on Songhees territory in the Cecilia Creek watershed (Victoria, B.C.) — mixes faith with environmental stewardship.

"Abandoning biofuels as a major climate action in the transportation sector, as must be done, raises the question of how to reduce GHG pollution," writes Victoria-based transportation planning consultant Eric Doherty.

The Canadian government launched a new program in 2020 to address the hundreds of journalism jobs being lost, the dozens of news organizations being shuttered and the obliteration of the old revenue model for journalism, Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood writes.

Carbon pricing is the best way to support the technologies we need to solve the climate change problem, writes Michael Bernstein, executive director of Clean Prosperity.

CEO and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood shares why she started Canada's National Observer, how independent media is vital to preserving democracy and what to expect from us in 2021.

"I wonder if there is not a risk that people are tiring of the standard COVID-19 messaging. How do we encourage positive behaviour, even as the situation becomes more dire?" author and consultant Ingrid Stefanovic asks.

Just as COVID-19 vaccination should strive for universal coverage and be guided by equity, governments should legislate paid sick days on the same basis, emergency physician Jesse McLaren writes.

For the sake of meeting the challenge of the climate emergency, we need to pay heed to the lessons of COVID-19 and apply them to climate policy, writes Andrea Reimer.

How pension funds invest our retirement savings is a major factor in how quickly we transition to a zero-carbon economy.

“No matter where you work, I respect you for putting food on the table. But I do have to say that my life has additional meaning now,” Nick Kendrick says.

As an emergency room physician, Dr. Gaibrie Stephen has seen the many ways in which COVID-19 has devastated people’s lives.

Only a fraction of Indigenous chiefs are women, and many of those who hold the title complain of being harassed and disrespected by men.

As America is ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump squats with his eyes glued to his phone, tweeting. A petulant grin on his face, he seems oblivious to the virus spilling out all around him in this cartoon by Michael de Adder.

As much as COVID-19 is a large-scale human tragedy, no doubt science tells us this is just a warning compared to the existential risks global warming poses to our civilization in the years and decades to come, writes Christian Burgsmüller, the European Union's chargé d’affaires to Canada.