Opinion

Jagmeet Singh’s NDP is particularly popular among younger voters, the same demographic that helped propel the Trudeau Liberals to their first majority in 2015, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Nova Scotia PCs have more in common with the 2015 Trudeau Liberals than the 2021 O’Toole Conservatives, given they won their election by outflanking their provincial competitors to the left on everything from climate change to health-care spending, writes columnist Max Fawcett. 

Canada's cornerstone environmental protection law hasn't been updated since 1999, and modern-day exposures, including those in some workplaces, are inadequately addressed under the legislation in its current form, write Atanu Sarkar and Jane McArthur of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.

While I didn’t want this election, I think we need it, writes Cameron Fenton, Canada team lead with 350.org.

To their credit, Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives have stopped pretending climate change isn’t a real issue, but you can forgive Canadians for not taking them seriously on the matter just yet, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Getting humiliated on Twitter might seem like a weird way for the Conservatives to win an election, but there may be a method to this madness, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The asbestos lobby uses the same tactic as the Alberta oil industry — vilifying its opponents as enemies secretly working for foreign interests who wish to destroy the livelihoods of local communities, writes former director of the BC Human Rights Commission Kathleen Ruff.

In the debate over COVID-19 vaccine patents, a flawed logic is being used to justify putting profits above saving lives.

Surprisingly, individuals can do a considerable amount to fight climate change. And much of this battle takes place in the kitchen, writes Stephanie J. Miller. 

The Xi Jinping regime will not bend or give ground until the Meng Wanzhou proceedings are terminated, whether by Canada or the United States, writes columnist Sandy Garossino.

It seems we’re consuming faster than 100 km/h when the safe speed is 30 to 50 km/h, writes Ralph Martin, author of Food Security: From Excess to Enough.

It’s as if everyone is waiting for someone else to make the first move — and draw the ire of the anti-vax movement so they don’t have to, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Canada, a country which has profited enormously from burning fossil fuels, has a “moral obligation” to people forced to flee rising seas, drought and other plagues of a world on fire, writes columnist Jesse Firempong.

The forest fires raging across northern Ontario and much of the rest of the world are another stark and frightening reminder of the climate emergency that fossil fuels create, writes Dianne Saxe.