Opinion

Since he was elected in 2014, Mayor John Tory has had it easy. With Doug Ford now the premier-designate of Ontario, things are about to get hard.

Environmentalists have accused the B.C. government of lying about the amount of majestic, centuries-old trees left standing in the province. The National Observer reported last month that the B.C. government, through B.C. Timber Sales, had approved permits for logging that saw some of the world’s biggest red cedar and Douglas fir trees cut down in the Nahmint Valley on Vancouver Island.

It's been a crazy week in politics. Here's an analysis of influences and voices beyond borders, with National Observer's Editor-in-Chief.

Ford isn’t a stable politician in a solid party, writes Nora Loreto. The party has deep divisions that can be exploited by progressive social activists.

June 8th is World Oceans Day, when people around our blue planet celebrate and honour the ocean, which connects us all. Under-regulated oil barges and articulated tug barges, which move vast quantities of oil and other fuels, require immediate attention.

As someone who feels completely at home in both, the tone of recent relations between our provinces has been unsettling for me. Increasingly we seem to be acting like siblings in a quarrel that is obstinate and escalating.

Students at an an all-girls private school in Montreal have launched a petition to make bras optional after a student was told she should be wearing one.

A three-day International Refugee Rights Conference opening in Toronto Thursday provides an opportunity to highlight the urgent need to devise solutions for people driven from their communities by climate change.

Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford says he's heard about real struggles across Canada's largest province. As Ontarians ready to cast ballots on June 7, Ford makes the case for voting for him in an opinion piece for National Observer.

On the eve of Ontario's provincial election, Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner writes about the southern Ontario community that could make history on June 7.

A 2012 report released by the Toronto Environment Office projected Toronto’s future weather patterns in this age of climate change and found a whole lot of misery.

La crise climatique sera peut-être le vrai test de l’utilité du Sommet du G7 et de sa capacité à aborder les grandes crises mondiales... à tout le moins, ce le sera pour la présidence canadienne.

The Beaver Lake Cree case will be the first time a court is asked to draw the line defining too much industrial development in the face of constitutionally-protected treaty rights.

The ugly king in the south, the beautiful king in the north, and the Roman god, Jupiter. Viewing our predicament through the lens of symbolism reveals a lot about the questions that might lead us to the Holy Grail.

"No deal ... no buyout." A speech that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could have given if he'd said 'no' to Kinder Morgan is imagined by 'Mitchell Beer, publisher of The Energy Mix, an e-digest on climate change, energy, and post-carbon solutions.