Opinion

A mere seven months remain before the next Quebec provincial election and with the Coalition Avenir du Québec (CAQ) enjoying a comfortable lead in the latest polls it was almost inevitable that the party would start facing intense scrutiny from its political adversaries.

I am on the horns of a dilemma I hope you can help me solve. I campaigned for Justin Trudeau, and was thrilled when, after years of Stephen Harper’s negligence on climate change, Trudeau’s new government made it an early priority to create a national plan to meet our Paris Climate Accord commitments.

Climate change is disruptive. We can all agree on that. But there is a path forward where we can rise above the disruptions: electrification. It’s the best way to bridge the gap to meet our greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals.

The Watch House is something new, both in the Kinder Morgan fight and in protest politics. Its presence is at the very heart of what could become Canada’s Standing Rock. At the same time, it is emerging as a place to reconcile differences, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous gather under its roof.

The federal government has no choice but to step in to protect Alberta’s boreal caribou now that the province has once again proved it is unwilling to do what it takes to save this iconic population.

Since 2014, there have been 162 UN troops killed in the country.

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency increased safety and environmental standards for cars in the 1970s, automakers responded.

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for anyone trying to insist that rape culture and normalized violence against women don’t exist in Canada.

The answer is yes. As an American, believe me, I know Americans are every bit as smart and well-intentioned as Canadians. But when it comes to gun regulation, it's just a fact that U.S. policymakers let arms merchants call the shots. That's not dumb, that's evil.

Our food supply could be at risk because farmland is being bought up by speculators, such as pension funds and foreign investors. This phenomenon is driving up prices, making farms unattainable for young farmers and threatening the viability of the family farm, a new Senate report has found.

Saturday marked a new level of resistance in the protests against Kinder Morgan, as twenty eight people from varied walks of life blocked the gates to the Kinder Morgan tank farm facility in Burnaby.

I live in remote ranch land in the rainshadow area of British Columbia in the Thompson River Valley. It is high desert surrounded by cattle ranches, grazing leases and ‘Indian Reserves’ (reservations).

We just have to move the obstacle out of the way to innovate and adapt to battle climate change and protect the environment, North American business leaders said at the Global Forum in Vancouver. They offered an array of exciting ideas, urban design and technology solutions.

Bright-eyed children run between heaping piles of plastic, a worn-out worker spends his meager wages on alcohol, and a preteen girl gazes solemnly at Western product advertisements she picks out of the monstrous piles of trash around her home. Welcome to Wang Jiuliang’s Plastic China.