Opinion

Government directly controls only a small part of our national emissions, and even large government subsidies to households and firms are repeatedly shown by leading researchers to have but a small effect, writes Mark Jaccard.

Following Canada’s 44th election is a bit like rewatching old political dramas on Netflix, says columnist Jesse Firempong. We’ve seen them all before, and we know what to expect.

Political parties that meaningfully seek to address tax fairness and income inequality issues on the campaign trail will attract robust support from across the political spectrum. 

"If you want to become disillusioned with the state of Canadian politics, all you need to do is spend a few minutes watching a federal leaders’ debate. The format of the recent English language debate, which seemed needlessly chaotic and confrontational, didn’t help."

And in case anyone still wants to pretend this is all just talk, there’s the terrorist attack earlier this year that killed a Muslim family in London, Ont., writes columnist Max Fawcett.

If it were not for the Liberal government's Trans Mountain purchase, Canada would now be in the grips of a serious national unity crisis, writes associate law professor Martin Olszynski.

We are in a climate emergency, and Canada's dominant parties remain fixated, for the most part, on market-based “solutions” inherently unable to meet the task at hand at the speed and scale required, writes columnist Seth Klein.

It's officially time to take Maxime Bernier seriously and start asking questions about what his rise means for the five other federal parties, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Magical thinkers are content to simply sit on the sidelines and radiate good thoughts at those doing the heavy lifting to solve the world’s ills, writes Louise Fabiani.

This isn’t the time to humour their irrational beliefs, or cater to their selective interpretation of our Constitution and its contents, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Canada Pension Plan was designed to promote retirement security. By increasing fossil fuel investments in a climate emergency, it is making all of us less secure, write James Rowe, Jessica Dempsey and James Mager.

When Jason Kenney promised Albertans the “best summer ever,” he probably didn’t imagine it would end like this, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Now is the time for commitments to end all subsidies, public finance and other fiscal support to the oil and gas sector by 2022, write Anjali Helferty and George Tjensvoll Kitching.

The absence of a law criminalizing unsanctioned abortions isn’t the same thing as a law guaranteeing access to them, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Maybe the most fanciful part of CAPP’s platform is its belief that Canada should ramp up its LNG exports to Asia and actually get credit for the emissions reductions associated with the switch from coal to natural gas, writes columnist Max Fawcett.