Should the government kill the Trans Mountain pipeline project?
Last week, Trans Mountain announced the project will be an eye-watering $8.8 billion over its initial budget.
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Public services, not private donations, are the solution to disabled poverty
Canada needs a national income supplement that would stack on top of existing benefits rather than compromising other forms of support.
Canada was not prepared for an onslaught of disinformation
The convoy has made it clear that not only have we lost the war on disinformation, but we also didn't even know where to look.
Your next car will be electric. Why did it take so long?
When future historians go looking for the moment when the electric vehicle revolution truly got underway, they might end up pinpointing last Sunday’s Super Bowl, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Stephen Harper helped create the anti-vax mandate convoy
There’s no sense in negotiating with the terrorists who are occupying Ottawa and want to overthrow the government, but the political culture that produced them needs to be addressed, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Between right and wrong, vaccinated and unvaccinated — is our humanity
It’s our job as Canadians to ask the person most different from us: What is it that I do not know?
Pest regulatory agency needs to up its game
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency has been told by the court it needs to better explain how it is protecting Canadians and the environment from the risks of pesticides.
The urgent need to cap oil and gas sector emissions: Seth Klein’s testimony to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources
"We pride ourselves on being climate leaders, yet we have been highly resistant to tackling our role as global producers of fossil fuels," writes Seth Klein.
On Canada’s precarious climate politics
It should come as no surprise that politics have played an outsized role in polarizing key energy and climate issues.
We can’t surrender to COVID. Why ‘back to normal’ is a dangerous fantasy
One-third of the population seems to be driving the public discourse right now, making policy in provinces like Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
With police unable or unwilling to end protests, Ottawa residents have been left to fend for themselves
During this pandemic, the phrase “We’re on our own” is not a sentiment that immediately mobilizes solidarity, putting it in stark contrast to the message, “We’re all in this together.”
Healing Canada’s social infrastructure
How can every Canadian play their part in the co-creation of the social infrastructure of tomorrow so that no one is left behind?
Meditation won’t fix environmental, public health problems
Leading environmental and health groups in Canada are calling on all federal parties to prioritize CEPA modernization in this session of Parliament and to pass a strengthened bill before the end of the year.
No, anti-vaxxers — your freedoms aren’t in jeopardy
This convoy and the blockades that it has inspired begs a crucial question: In what way are Canadians not free right now? asks columnist Max Fawcett.