Opinion

There’s one last political hail-mary Justin Trudeau could try — one that, ironically, he can thank both the Bloc Quebecois and Canadian Association of Retired Persons for.

The experiences with Hurricanes Helene and Milton serve as a stark warning of the problems we face in an era of accelerating climate change alongside rampant misinformation.

Politicians have a historic opportunity to prove that they care more about the safety of communities and healthy ecosystems than political games. 

A $200 rebate cheque that will soon reach 15 million Ontarians is a blatant pre-election bribe.

With all due respect to Al Gore, 2024 is the most important climate election in human history — even if nobody's willing to talk about it that way.

Has the University of Toronto really fulfilled it promise to divest from fossil fuels? Or has its investment team engaged in deceptive greenwashing practices to boost its climate action profile?

The premier has gone back to his roots in his latest tirade against bike lanes, which he’s been teasing for a while now but officially acted on earlier last week. His government recently proposed legislation that would ban all new bike lanes that take up space that could otherwise be used by cars — unless they receive special permission from the province.

This isn't the first close election in BC's recent history, but it is the first that attracted the sort of conspiracy theories and fever dreams that followed Donald Trump's defeat in 2020. That's not a coincidence.

Ella Bradford uses student climate strikes to raise awareness in Yukon. This 18-year-old student is a recipient of the I-SEA 2024 youth climate activism award for her high school leadership of the “Fridays for Future Yukon” student movement.

While the media narrative would have readers believe that sales are stalling, recent numbers show that EVs are still setting records in both the U.S. and Canada.

By failing to address the public transit problem, we risk a future that is costlier, more polluting, and where gridlock holds people and goods back from their full potential.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has already decided to rip up the bike lanes on major thoroughfares in Toronto like Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue in an obvious attempt to win over traffic-addled voters before an increasingly imminent provincial election.

As a condition of supporting the NDP, the Greens ought to insist on another kick at the electoral reform can, which they campaigned on once more in 2024.

While B.C.'s election campaign was superficially about pocket-book issues such as short-term tax relief, it was actually more about competing appeals to anger and fear.

The Ontario legislature is about to begin its second reading of a bill to protect citizens from extreme weather events and safeguard agricultural systems and ecosystems — but the bill does not adequately address the implications of climate change on the spread of infectious diseases.