Opinion

In the 2012 provincial election, it was the outrageous comments from a Wildrose candidate (and Danielle Smith's refusal to condemn them) that cost her the election. This time, she might want to look in the mirror, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

It can leverage its membership in the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance and stop investing in the oil and gas companies that are putting our pensions and our climate at risk.

To be like Norway, Canadian pension and public investment funds should set targets and transition plans for their portfolio companies to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 by reducing their Scope 1, Scope 2 and material Scope 3 emissions and divesting and excluding the same companies from their portfolios.

Max Fawcett talks with an environmentalist who thinks it is essential for nuclear to be part of the climate solution

When it comes to industrial logging emissions in Canada, policymakers — and the public — are largely in the dark.

Danielle Smith's bad math on net-zero electricity shows just how far she's willing to bend the truth to win an election — and how hard she'll fight the Trudeau Liberals on climate policy if she does, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Abul Bashar Rahman, a 21-year-old economics student at the University of British Columbia, is spending his summer cycling across his home country of Bangladesh raising awareness of his people’s remarkable ability to remain resilient in the face of climate catastrophes.

We need the BC NDP to stop using short-term thinking and focus on the well-being of British Columbians, the health of the planet and the economic sustainability of our province.

For wild animals in need, provincial natural resource branches or local public animal care and control agencies may provide some basic services, but rarely therapeutic veterinary care.

Canadian folk icon Gordon Lightfoot reflected back to us one of our most enduring national myths. The Canadian Railroad Trilogy was powerful stuff.

Who's the true conservative in Alberta's provincial election? The answer is more complicated than you might think — and it holds the key to victory for Rachel Notley, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

There will be a resolution calling for a citizens’ assembly on electoral reform at the upcoming Liberal national convention running May 4 to 6 in Ottawa. 

What the UCP's reaction to an emissions cap says about their commitment to climate policy — and their willingness to trade the future for the present. Columnist Max Fawcett takes a look.

We simply cannot stand by and watch vulnerable countries either being engulfed by rising seas or choked by crushing debt.

As co-founder and COO of Circulr, this 24-year-old Kitchener resident works with grocery store brands in the Toronto and Waterloo-Wellington regions to create a reuse platform to reduce a communities’ collective environmental impact.