Opinion

With official Ottawa now engrossed in an inquiry into the Emergencies Act, it’s a good time to remember that vaccines and other COVID measures saved thousands of lives.

Premier Danielle Smith's entire electoral strategy revolves around ignoring Calgary and Edmonton, where most Albertans live, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Cities need a youthful infrastructure that includes affordability, good jobs, safety, mobility, a net-zero focus, physical and mental health, and fun with entertainment, music and green space based on metrics young people devise. 

Patricia Lane talks to the Montreal-based founder of Arrêtons GNL, a coalition of most student unions in Quebec, about plans to make his movement Canada-wide.

The Pakistan floods should force us to reframe what we call the climate emergency, writes Zain Haq. 

For all of its noisy talk about oil and gas, the Alberta government has been curiously quiet about the success of its solar energy industry, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

And the crisis is a direct result of the acceleration of climate change, writes Mahmuda Khan with Human Concern International.

The federal Conservatives promise to scrap the carbon tax and thereby make all our lives affordable again. It’s a cunning attempt to link inflation to the carbon tax, writes Rob Miller.

This is the problem with playing stupid games: sometimes, you end up winning a really stupid prize. Columnist Max Fawcett weighs in.

As a co-founder and chief financial officer of investment firm Akira Impact, she is supporting ideas that are good for the planet and the people who live here.

Girls care deeply about political issues, from education, health, and poverty, to the environment and climate change, writes Lindsay Glassco.

The Conservatives, including Poilievre, have largely painted any attempt at curbing or mitigating online harms as an exercise in state censorship of the internet.

Smith has already announced plans to challenge the Canadian Constitution, disregard the courts that interpret it and wage a broader war on the health-care system that would even make Jason Kenney blush.

The Trudeau government is pushing the "Norway model" and greening our economy while raking in oil and gas revenue, writes Ross Belot.

Old habits die hard, and few habits are older for conservatives than pushing tax cuts for the rich, writes columnist Max Fawcett.