Opinion

While some saw an obviously staged (and crassly executed) stunt, others treated it like a shining example of Doug Ford’s best political trait, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

We have to find ways to make renting more lucrative for renters, not just their landlords, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Given the resistance of far-right bases to logic, morality, and reason, however, it seems unlikely that Goldy’s financial wrongdoings will do much, if anything, to alienate her supporters, writes Luke Ottenhof.

For a brief moment in time, public-minded values like community engagement and communal decision-making were allowed to eclipse private interests, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

When it comes to housing in Canada, the rich just keep getting richer, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Many Asian-owned businesses have had to fight two foes during the pandemic: racism and the COVID lockdowns.

The suggestion that increased racial sensitivity by Canada’s public broadcaster is the effect of elite American liberal posturing is flatly bizarre, writes columnist Sandy Garossino.

Some topics are just too big to be covered in one column. That’s why, over the next two weeks, Max Fawcett will tackle the housing crisis and the ways we could address it in a series of them. First up: the need for more federal leadership. 

The rest of us have already wasted far too much time trying to humour anti-vaxxers' beliefs and accommodate their demands, writes columnist Max Fawcett. Now, it’s time for us to move on — and leave them behind.

The collapse of U.S. democracy would carry especially damaging climate consequences, writes Mark Hertsgaard, co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now.

To save the planet, the degrowth movement calls not for us to sacrifice prosperity, but to redefine it, writes Peter Sutoris.

We need to look hard at our shared attitude towards public schools and teachers, and why our elected officials have been so willing to make them carry the weight, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Beyond individual action, Canadians could accept a system that will tangibly assign financial costs to the increasing environmental impacts of flying so that those who choose to fly pay the bill, writes Ralph Martin.

Media outlets must begin thinking about what we learned from COP26, and how we can use the UN conference as a blueprint for climate coverage in 2022.

For decades, Alberta’s conservative politicians have complained about the preferential treatment Quebec receives from the federal government and its elected officials, writes columnist Max Fawcett.