Opinion

Running on a bold climate agenda, Anjali Appadurai came within a hair of being the member of Parliament for Vancouver Granville in the 2021 federal election. 

Leaders across Canada recently celebrated multiculturalism, but the nationwide rise in hate and discrimination requires a more active approach to inclusion.

Tamara Lich's supporters want to build her up as a martyr to freedom and a heroic figure of resistance against the supposed “tyranny” of a minority government and its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TMX was always a financial loser. That’s why Kinder Morgan bailed. But now it is more than a financial basket case, writes Elizabeth May.

To achieve reconciliation in health care, we need Indigenous leaders in areas such as ultrasound, medical records, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy and mental health in addition to primary care.

In fairness, the current federal government is hardly alone in failing to meet the moment here. City councils in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal continue to cater to the noisy whims of local homeowner groups and other organized expressions of NIMBYism, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

With the latest changes to our Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) laws, we have not witnessed a slippery slope in Canada, we have fallen off a cliff.

As the organizing director for the West Kootenay EcoSociety and Neighbours United, she leads teams that have already persuaded 13 regional municipalities to set climate pollution reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement.

Is it possible we are nearing the tipping point of hope about the fate of our warming planet, finally poised to offset the negativism of the last decade?

I’d been treesitting in protest of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) for months. While my friends and I were literally holding the fort, conservationists were doing critical work on the ground, writes Emily Kelsall.

The good news is that reducing methane from the oil and gas industry is the single fastest, available and affordable opportunity to slow down the rate of climate warming. The bad news is that Canada isn’t taking full advantage of this opportunity.

By forcing Putin to choose either butter or guns, economic sanctions lock him in a vise that is gradually tightening.

This December’s UN Convention on Biological Diversity summit, or COP15, has been relocated from Kunming, China, to Montréal. The meeting may provide an ideal opportunity to push Canada and other nations to do better.

But the convoy-tinged rot in the Conservative Party of Canada goes much deeper than some of its members, writes columnist Max Fawcett.