Opinion

Research has shown that recognition of a right to a healthy environment results in stronger environmental laws, better enforcement of those laws and a greater public role in environmental decision-making.

The Globe and Mail was wrong to publish Ezra Levant’s most recent article for the same reason Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland would have been right to bar a Rebel Media reporter: Rebel Media is a source of dangerous right-wing propaganda posing an active threat to marginalized groups in Canada. 

If the Amazon is burning right now, it is partly because of the Bolsonaro government, but it is also because there is a huge global appetite for certain agricultural products and certain minerals.

Kenney's war room is good for oil and himself but bad for the country. Without major reductions in oilsands pollution, Canada will not meet its climate commitments.

Anyone who looks closely at the Alberta premier's inquiry into foreign-funded advocacy groups can clearly see it's a farce.

It’s difficult for many to understand how Trump still is able to not only seriously undermine the traditional democratic process in the US but also simultaneously have a highly negative spillover effect on other countries, including Canada.

While many in the Bahamas would want to connect Dorian to some supernatural cause, it is a matter of urgency that we acknowledge the warming of the world, caused by humans, was responsible.

Someone at Postmedia was responsible — apparently someone senior enough to green-light it for publication. Who was it?

With climate change poised to be a central issue in this fall’s Canadian federal election, it's time to take an unvarnished look at the winners and losers during the past four years of Liberal party reign.

Scientists have linked the increasing number and ferocity of wildfires to global heating, but you’d never know that if you depended on Canada’s corporate media.

While we loudly condemn the Maxime Berniers of the world, compassion may be the most appropriate response to its Christopher Caldwells.

The dean of a Quebec law school has a message for those students whom Bill 21 seeks to exclude from the province's public life.

The CEO of the National Post's parent company reportedly wants his journalists to be more conservative. Given what conservatism looks like in 2019, that strategy is a direct threat to marginalized groups.

News is helping make some corporations very wealthy. Canadians expect their government to redistribute some of this wealth to the producers of the news they need to live in a healthy and sturdy democracy.

Inhabitants of low-lying atolls and archipelagos in the Pacific have to worry about losing their security and livelihoods — and even the very existence of the places they call home.