Opinion

Since winning the leadership, Erin O’Toole has worked fearlessly to soften the several jagged edges that had come to characterize his party since its inception, writes Andrew Perez.

The Liberals, NDP and Greens all aim to build on Canada’s climate efforts. They want to increase both ambition and action — and one party, the Conservatives, wants to go backward, write Clean Energy Canada's Merran Smith and Sarah Petrevan.

If Canadian voters genuinely care about climate change, they’ll do themselves a favour and put O’Toole’s plan in the trash can — before he gets a chance to do it himself, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Voters in this year's federal election must push parties to put climate change and biodiversity on the top of their agendas, writes the Sierra Club Canada Foundation's Conor Curtis.

While Erin O’Toole has tried to present a positive and policy-oriented face to Canadians during this election campaign, he is stewarding a party that still boils with hatred for his opponent, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

With numerous polls now showing the Conservatives and Liberals in a statistical tie, an election campaign that was supposed to be smooth sailing for the governing party has now gotten deadly serious, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The original Line 3 pipeline is responsible for the worst inland spill in U.S. history, and even before oil has begun to flow, the new pipeline has caused 28 drilling fluid spills into 12 river crossings, writes Evelyn Austin.

As a country that asked those people to stand beside us, whether as translators or as soldiers, we owe them an enormous debt that must be repaid, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Nobody knows where the premier is, and even his own staffers are unwilling to talk about when he might return, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Trudeau-Ford détente and Ford’s extraordinary decision to bar his ministers from even interacting with O’Toole’s candidates could impact the election’s dynamics in seat-rich Ontario.

Effective action against climate breakdown is near impossible while governments are vulnerable to lawsuits, writes George Monbiot.

Canadian carbon pricing is complicated, and Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s carbon pricing plan would only further complicate it, writes lawyer Marc Z. Goldgrub.

If Erin O'Toole's Conservatives want to actually win an election, they’ll have to start taking things like the “she-cession” more seriously, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Until both sides are willing to spend more time talking about the merits of their own ideas rather than dunking on their opponents, Canadians aren’t going to get the kind of political conversations they need — and deserve, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

We should be used to history-blind Conservative fear-mongering on this front by now, writes Randy Boswell.