Opinion

Conservatives' inability to see cryptocurrency flaws speaks to their judgment, their ability to detect bullshit, and their willingness to traffic in unproven ideas, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Canada has no official position for or against deep-sea mining, and no legal regime that would categorically allow or prevent it.

In the era of climate change, cutting conservation authorities out of the development process hinders climate progress and could spell disaster for residents living in flood zones.

It’s not often you watch a billionaire get humiliated in public, much less on a daily basis. But that’s what keeps happening to Elon Musk, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

At the 2022 United Nations climate change conference, COP27, each country must set out what it has done and intends to do to limit the increase of the global temperature to 1.5 C.

Against the backdrop of COP27, what can affluent nations like Canada do to change humanity’s destructive course and assume global leadership in building an inclusive, climate-safe global economy?

This 24-year-old student works at SevenGen, providing mentoring, funding, skill and capacity-building to teams of emerging young Indigenous energy transition leaders.

To ensure our carbon tax does not damage the Canadian economy or the climate through leakage, we need to implement carbon border adjustments, or CBAs.

Are they here to serve and protect the public, or just the portions of it that share their ideological convictions and partisan beliefs? asks columnist Max Fawcett.

The federal government has lots of cash, but little political courage, writes David Macdonald, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

If Doug Ford and François Legault have their way, Canada may not have a Charter worth defending for much longer, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Big Oil created the climate crisis; they haven’t even begun to pay their fair share towards climate action.

Policy wonks inadvertently got us into this growing standoff over federal carbon pricing, but they might just be the ones who can get us out, too, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

To capture the real potential of next-generation climate policies informed by “circular thinking,” a more strategically focused approach is required.

To Canada’s leaders heading to COP27 who may find themselves struggling with the “balancing of climate policy and energy security policy,” remember that there is a force of parents united across this country here to remind you what is at stake.