Opinion

I’ll start by letting you in on a little open secret: This year (and in past years) the only Canadian media outlet to send reporters to COP, aside from the CBC, was Canada’s National Observer.

For traditional and moderate conservatives, the merger of Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance and Peter MacKay's federal PC party to form the Conservative Party of Canada has been a tragedy.

Yusra Shafi is a 22-year-old immigrant from Kuwait. With KAIROS Canada, she helps empower women to build climate-resilient communities in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel/Palestine, and South Sudan.

At COP28, the fossil fuel industry promoted carbon capture and storage as a way to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In reality, the technology is growing at a snail’s pace compared to wind and solar energy.

The polls are starting to show a meaningful bounce in Liberal support — one that could portend a much better year for Justin Trudeau's government in 2024 than it had in 2023.

Not to mention, destroying our shrinking opportunity to combat climate change. As a reader, you matter today as you never have before, and here’s why.

There's a growing conflict between ambitious climate action and retrograde investment treaties that indemnify foreign investors from government decisions that cut into their future profits.

At COP28, oil and gas companies and petrostates like Alberta made their pitch to have their climate cake and eat it too. Now that the conference is over and the world has agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, they're in for a rude awakening.

For the past few months, Canadians have been banned from sharing news articles on Facebook and Instagram, places where many people turned for information.

Finding middle ground between the oil and gas sector and climate activists may be the right chess move in politics, but the wrong moral move that gambles with our children’s future.

A fossil fuel phaseout would add momentum to the influx of green jobs and investment already underway in Canada.

Contrary to what Premier Danielle Smith keeps saying, the federal government's new emissions cap on oil and gas won't force Alberta to reduce its oil and gas production. That's going to be the market's job — one it's already starting to do.

As co-founder of Gay4Nature, Anna Bigland-Pritchard uses opera to raise awareness of queer and environmental issues.

There’s one important aspect of climate solutions discussed at COP28 that deserves more attention — the environmental impact of digitization.

COP28 has finally delivered a breakthrough commitment for a new Loss and Damage Fund to support the countries most impacted by climate change. But billions are needed if the fund is to serve its purpose and make a real difference.