Canada can still crack down on guns — before it’s too late
If we want our country to remain as safe as possible, we’re going to need to remember that American-style freedom comes with American-style costs.
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Would Poilievre fund a Fox News Canada?
Canada isn’t in any danger of embracing Hungarian-style fascism, but the manipulation of the media could easily serve as an inspiration for our conservatives, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
The risky business of chicken and pig farms in Canada
It is of critical concern that our next pandemic is being hastened by our use of animals susceptible to influenza, especially chickens and pigs.
Edge of extinction: 10 Canadian species to know — and save
Canada has hundreds of endangered species at risk of disappearing from our country and from our planet.
In this election, we must protect Ontario, the only home we have
As we’ve seen through the Ontario election campaign, climate change and the environment are not being regarded as a top issue of concern for voters.
Calgary’s billionaires should put their money where their hockey team is
Seattle’s new Climate Pledge Arena serves as a reminder — an unpleasant one for those hoping to extort more cash out of Calgary’s city council — that you can build a new arena without public money, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Making heat pumps ordinary: The Aki Energy story
Instead of heat pumps being the exception to the rule, make them the ordinary way of doing things, write Shaun Loney and Darcy Wood of Aki Energy.
Where should climate-concerned Canadians bank?
Climate-concerned Canadians can take action against fossil fuel-funding banks by shifting their business elsewhere, writes Matt Price of Investors for Paris Compliance. But where should you take your dollars?
Jason Kenney defeated himself
Despite moving the location of the vote, changing the rules around it, and otherwise tilting the table in his own direction wherever possible, Kenney could barely win a plurality of the votes — and didn’t even match the 55 per cent showing that ultimately forced Ralph Klein to step down in 2006.
Public investment needed to protect birds and people in the ‘pandemicene’
Normally, wildlife rehabilitators are just as busy providing care for birds who fall victim to our windows, vehicles and our house cats allowed outdoors. But this year, the landscape is even more perilous, writes animal protection expert Kendra Coulter.
Kick the 'treasonous' Great Replacement Theory out of Canada before it takes us off the rails
Purging the Conservative Party of Canada’s tent of hate is going to be very difficult, given how long and hard people like Pierre Poilievre have worked to churn it up against any number of supposed enemies, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Canada must reduce soaring number of Indigenous people in jails
Last week, we learned Canada has crossed a terrible threshold: 50 per cent of all women in federal prisons are now Indigenous. Lawyer Corey Shefman asks: will this shameful reality continue to be ignored by politicians, policy-makers and the Canadian public?
The tragedy of the commons is holding back Canada’s power grid
Canada needs to help build an improved continental power grid with our American neighbours to avert the worst impacts of climate change, writes public policy analyst Philip Duguay.
Why Canadians shouldn't fall for Poilievre's infomercial sales pitch
Is the Conservative Party of Canada going to elect a wise person as their next leader, asks columnist Max Fawcett, or fall for Pierre Poilievre’s infomercial sales pitch?
The Alberta Court of Appeal gets it wrong — again
As we argued before the Alberta court, the Impact Assessment Act is reasonable, justified and falls squarely within federal jurisdiction. The federal appeal has every chance of success in the Supreme Court.
