Opinion

Will the new frontier of artificial intelligence, like social media, begin as a forum for addictive fun that spirals into an online world populated by dark forces such as bullying, racism, manipulation, corruption, greed and anger?

New research shows that gas stoves might be hazardous to your kids' health — and conservatives are melting down about it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The world has already witnessed how climate denialism failed the United States, Australia, and Brazil. Will Canada be next?

This 23-year-old engineer co-founded and co-led a movement to plant a million and a half trees across the Caribbean and now works in coastal restoration. 

Scientists need to learn more about climate change’s negative impacts on the nervous system in order to mitigate it.

Live horses do not make up a significant percentage of the overall value of our total exports to Japan and serve only to satisfy a small niche market of wealthy individuals who are willing and able to pay top dollar for raw horse sashimi.     

For a guy who said he wasn’t interested in fighting with Alberta, the prime minister is sure throwing a lot of jabs these days.

After three years, COVID-19 is slipping from our collective consciousness, fading into the background, including its origins as a zoonotic infection linked to our use of animals.

Canada’s middle power strategy has served the country very well indeed. Why then, its defenders will inevitably ask, should we consider changing course now? 

Pierre Poilievre’s crypto catastrophe is more than a humorous political pratfall, writes public policy consultant Adil Sayeed.

What do Jordan Peterson, Pierre Poilievre and Elon Musk have in common? None of them understand how free speech actually works — especially in Canada, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Dr. Kevin Liang is a family physician practising in Vancouver. This 28-year-old is passionate about planetary health and tackling health-care's carbon footprint.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Tom Brodbeck looks at how the Conservative leader’s rhetoric is paving a more dangerous road, one that fuels extremist views and intolerance.

Today, progress is being made, with over a dozen climate crisis courses now offered at major universities in Ontario. But none of those are mandatory courses for all undergraduate students, regardless of their discipline. 

Pierre Poilievre has been starting political fires all across the country over the last year, columnist Max Fawcett writes.