Opinion

It was former prime minister Pierre Trudeau who once described sharing a border with America as akin to sleeping with an elephant. “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast,” he said, “one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”

Meet Vanessa Corkal, a sustainable development researcher who's not afraid to ask the big questions.

By consciously making space for women in the green recovery from COVID-19, we’ll find new pathways for fixing the economic and ecological imbalances with which our society is reckoning, write Jesse Firempong and Lydie Padilla.

“Canadians don’t like to hear it, and I don’t like to say it, but even under Donald Trump, the Americans did a better job at tackling the climate emergency over his four years than Canada did,” newly elected Green party Leader Annamie Paul said during a public conversation via Zoom on Thursday.

While it's great to see Donald Trump go, don't expect too much change when president-elect Joe Biden takes the reins, writes Andrea Reimer.

The multibillion-dollar venture between Gazoduq and GNL Quebec would entail natural gas, extracted from fracking in northern B.C. and Alberta, being piped through existing pipelines all the way to eastern Ontario.

As a figure unblemished by shame or reflection, Donald Trump perfectly embodies a pre-pubescent ideal of manhood as unrestrained dominance. That he stands today unrivaled as the ultimate Proud Boy icon is entirely fitting, because Trump is childish to his core. 

The host of Democracy Now! stated United States’ staggering pandemic numbers can be attributed to Trump’s “complete incompetence and malevolence.”

It’s time for TransLink and Metro Vancouver to connect city residents to nature through public transit, writes Charlotte Liu.

The logging industry continues to cut faster than Canada's managed forests can keep up with. The resulting flood of CO2 is a rapidly growing climate threat, Barry Saxifrage writes, and Ottawa needs new climate policies to rein it in.

Energy and natural resources employers, educational institutions and other stakeholders across the country have actively taken up green jobs programs to benefit from the skills and perspectives of young workers, and to develop Canada’s next-generation green skills pipeline.

Relying on fossil fuels has run its course. Canada and the world must carve a new path forward for the sake of our economy, health and climate, Tzeporah Berman writes.

Contrasting our election to the U.S. election campaign this past month, British Columbians live in a remarkably civil society, Andrea Reimer writes.

Federal leadership that prioritizes our future is critical, both in terms of our careers and the viability of our communities facing environmental crises, writes Brennan Strandberg-Salmon.

By suppressing all wildfires and incessantly burning fossil fuels, humans have upset the role that fire has historically played in providing ecological balance. We need to rethink our view of fire and accept its presence by changing how we manage lands and plan our communities.