Opinion

Canada is clearly playing an important role, not as a political powerhouse, but as a genuine contributor to the sense of progress, made all the more significant given our substantial oil production and export economy, writes Bruce Lourie.

Conservatives in Canada continue to place the rights of people who haven't taken a COVID-19 vaccine over their responsibilities to everyone else, including health-care workers.

Climate activism is no flash in the pan movement. Young people like Greta Thunberg will make it stick, writes David Tindall.

The amazing thing is that if cut to the core message, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg are pretty much saying the same thing at the UN climate conference: The hour is late and we are very far from where we need to be, writes Kairn Carrington.

Canada needs more transmission lines to connect provincial grids and allow us, as a nation, to play to our strengths.

Mainstream media has always favoured the right and social media, including Twitter and Facebook, are continuing that tradition, writes Max Fawcett.

Banks should leave natural gas behind and move on to the lucrative renewable future, writes Rob Henderson

In Canada, one of the most striking aspects of climate justice is the disparity between Indigenous peoples and settler society, writes David Tindall.

Within industry, elected to government, and at the heart of their communities, women are organizing locally and transnationally to protect the planet and the future. And a new push was launched this week at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Canada has a dismal record on meeting its promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but carbon taxes are a promising development, writes David Tindall.

"We seem to constantly deal with improvised targets of ever-increasing ambition from a federal government that’s never come close to meeting its targets,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet was not an exercise in building a new team, but more about damage control, plugging holes due to electoral defeats and poor performances, writes Andrew Perez. 

University of Toronto's decision to begin divesting its $4-billion endowment fund from fossil fuels "immediately" could encourage other Canadian universities to do the same.

The victory climate activists are declaring in Quebec could easily prove to be pyrrhic, given the obvious risk of blowback in Alberta — and potentially in Ottawa, says columnist Max Fawcett.