Opinion

Justin Trudeau has a fondness for big promises and soaring rhetoric. But if you’re going to preach something to the public, you’d better be sure you’re practising it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Now more than ever, Canadians need to understand that climate action is good for the pocketbook.

This 33-year-old is the executive director of Student Energy, which has already supported over 15,000 young people in Canada and 50,000 students in 120 countries to accelerate the fight against climate change. 

Renewable energy power storage is successfully being added to the North American grid to keep the lights on, computers running and the electric vehicles charging.

Freeland and the female staffers that were with her escaped unharmed, but it seems like it’s only a matter of time before somebody does something much worse.

Thankfully, in Canada, our Supreme Court actually decides cases on the basis of the law, not politics, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Hate is still all around us, and not everyone is fortunate enough to enjoy the Pride parades that made a comeback this summer.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair on the 2015 secret deal between the Harper government and Catholic leaders to discharge the church from its legal obligation to raise $25M for residential school survivors.

There are several energy innovators in Canada that have made huge strides in adopting low- or no-carbon solutions by blending energy sources with the goal of helping large and small energy users achieve their 2030 goals. One solution is renewable natural gas.

Oilsands companies and their advocates are doing their level best to stall Canada's climate plans, writes columnist Max Fawcett. Ottawa needs to hold them accountable.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes on how Haudenosaunee recognition and inclusion in the Olympics will be an issue.

Columnist Julian Brave NoiseCat reflects on identity, community and family at Toronto's first-ever two-spirit powwow.

Upon closer inspection, the treaty Canada negotiated with the European Union from 2009 to 2014 is completely out of step with the times. To begin with, it contains no reference to the Paris climate agreement.

Europe and Canada need to invest in the energy transition, not new fossil fuel infrastructure that will start becoming stranded assets over the next 10 to 15 years.

The photo with Jeremy MacKenzie wasn’t Pierre Poilievre’s first exposure to the Diagolon movement, writes columnist Max Fawcett.