Opinion

Like Donald Trump’s latest idiotic tweet, climate change is trending. But, as usual, communities of colour are back of the bus when it comes to environmental protection in Canada, writes Erica Ifill. 

Cancelling the pipeline expansion wouldn't have affected emissions, but the Liberals' $70-billion climate plan will ⁠— provided they're in power long enough to implement it.

Here are the claims worthy of debunking from Trudeau’s pipeline approval speech, writes Sven Biggs.

Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, writes on plastic's key role in the global waste crisis and the role industry in the Great Lakes region can play in turning it around.

Roots of deadly Winnipeg General Strike as relevant today as ever

The key to our elections is not the relatively small number of voters tied to a single party but the much larger number of 'butterfly voters,' who are open to as many as three parties.

We are in a climate emergency.  Status quo behavior is our enemy. It is time for us to step up and do what is required.

Andrew Scheer has certainly waited an awfully long time to release his climate plan. Pundits had given up trying to pry one from him, and I have often tweeted about him being “the man with no climate plan.” Well, no more, at last the plan has been unveiled.

The battle against the forces killing our planet can be won only if the whole of humanity, not just Indigenous peoples, joins the fight.

Extraction industries seem to be the main game in town knocking at the Nisga’a Nation door with various "economic development" proposals. But we must say no, regardless of short-term gain.

Given that transportation is one of Canada’s highest-emitting sectors, the government should be applauded for its suite of policies aimed at increasing demand for low-emission automobiles.

Opinion: The Mental Health Commission of Canada has done for mental health what we desperately need done for LGBTQ2+ communities.

Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change writes that 'while the rest of the world is taking more action to battle this climate crisis, Canada’s Conservatives want to go in exactly the opposite direction.'

Grief itself is a well-known, well studied human emotion and there is much we have learned from the death and dying process of individuals that can help us navigate this larger ecological grief.

While we worry about Russian meddling, a transnational extreme right movement operates online with the goal of influencing mainstream political debate.