Opinion

According to Oxford Economics, there were 2.3 million fewer people working in aviation worldwide last September compared to the beginning of the pandemic, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The great forests of B.C. were a source of unlimited wealth. We are now reaching the limits of available supply.

Now that MPs and senators have returned home for the summer, it’s a good time to assess the progress made on environmental issues during the first half of 2022.

As the sustainability engagement co-ordinator at the University of Waterloo and a member of the Intermunicipal Partnership for Active Transportation advocacy group, this 24-year-old is applying her research to ensure youth are heard.

Since kids seem to innately know what is healthier for them and the planet, why not feed provide healing doses of kindness and science in whatever way we feel inspired to?

It wasn’t that long ago the Maple Leaf flag was a mostly inoffensive, and occasionally inspiring, symbol of Canadian national pride, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

What is clear is that B.C. will continue to experience more frequent and severe climate-related disasters. The question is: how are we going to respond to these threats?

Monique Labelle-Wheeler has been refilling the same plastic bottle with dish soap for 10 years. She figures she has saved about 120 plastic bottles from the landfill, writes Becky Rynor.

On June 29, 350.org, along with partners and grassroots organizers across the country, is organizing to mark the one-year anniversary of the heat dome with a call to end climate delay in Canada.

If there’s good news here, it’s that abortion rights are on much firmer ground in Canada, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Let us be clear: Europe and Ukraine do not need your gas. We need more clean, affordable, accessible and transparent energy policies, ones based on the best available science and technology — not on vested interests.

For all the talk about deficits, supply chains and other knock-on impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, oil and gas have applied the bulk of the inflationary pressure on both global economies and household budgets, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Leave it to a pyjama-wearing eight-year-old to spark an epiphany in her father about climate action.

"Thanks to Roe v. Wade, I had choices when having kids at the centre of my life wasn’t a great idea."

Exploring for more oil, delineation of new fields, constructing new oil infrastructure and commissioning new projects are all activities that waste Canada's shrinking carbon budget.