Opinion

If we can’t handle even two years of what has been an inconvenience caused by the pandemic, how are we going to handle the even bigger changes we need to make to transition our economy to renewable energies and systems? 

Life-sustaining ecosystems are disappearing very quickly due to urbanization and land-use practices.

With policing costs chewing up nearly 10 per cent of the city’s overall budget, Ottawa residents have a right to ask what they’re getting for their money — and why police funding keeps going up, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The market for Canadian food will grow, and Canadian farmland will increasingly become a global oasis. It is our reasonable service to protect it.

With the right message and the right leadership, the occupation of Ottawa can end, writes columnist Max Fawcett. And when it’s over, we need to take full stock of who was really behind it — and what they wanted to achieve.

Our personal choices will determine how fast we achieve net-zero emissions.

If you think there’s something extremely fishy about the GoFundMe “Freedom” campaign, you’re onto something, writes columnist Sandy Garossino.

Extreme weather events in Canada have not prepared our communities, our institutions and our built and natural environments for a changing climate.

If bumblebee populations do continue to dwindle, most assuredly, we will be worse off for it.

Conservative governments have traditionally prided themselves on refusing to negotiate with terrorists, but the UCP seems more than happy to do it here, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

When it comes to delivering pollution reductions from the oil and gas sector, an aggressive push from the oil and gas lobby has the government focused on carrots.

Ford, for all of his failings as Ontario premier, remains reasonably popular — especially in the parts of the country where federal Conservatives need to win to form government, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Just think about the impact the government could have if it advertised on Canadian broadcasters the way it supports Facebook and Google.

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently storing it is essential in the fight against climate change.

Cops show double standard when protesters are white, Max Fawcett writes