Opinion

The absence of our environmental crises in discussions about cultural policy isn’t a uniquely Canadian problem.

Oil and gas advocates have plumbed new depths of depravity with their willingness to treat the crisis in Ukraine as an opportunity to push, yet again, for projects like Keystone XL and Energy East, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Every penny of our energy subsidies, tax breaks and financing should power that renewable revolution.

A little-known proposed oil project called Bay du Nord  — a collection of six oil discoveries close to each other in the Flemish Pass — is once again bringing the federal cabinet’s commitment to climate action into question. 

When we say net-zero, we should truly mean net-zero, writes Ross Belot.

For the federal Conservatives to win power, they must promise secular government, interesting and appealing economic ideas, an unqualified commitment to equal rights for all and a credible climate policy.

Health risks come from chronic exposure to coal dust particles over many years.

The oil and gas industry Alberta Premier Jason Kenney holds up as ethical has some very unethical Russian money in it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Can our assumptions about economic growth and our attachment to the systems that drive it be adapted, and where necessary, dismantled and replaced to prevent our multiple crises from worsening?

Trumpism has corrupted Canada’s Conservatives and alienated any remaining moderates in their midst, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Think of the Just Transition Act as a vaccine against the rise of the far-right.

The Conservatives have turned themselves into a farm team version of American Republicans and in the process have made Premier Doug Ford look good by comparison.

Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies offer a window into how a form of money is created and how it acquires value.

"Portraying the protest as an act of collective grieving rather than a bacchanal of vandalism and constitutional hooliganism was a choice," writes columnist Max Fawcett.

We are “group animals” and our progress demands we focus on ways to understand and mediate, rather than condemn one another.