Opinion

Those holding our savings and mortgages and controlling the flow of money into coal, oil and gas — RBC and the rest of Canadian banking gang — need to wake up and smell the CO2, writes Richard Brooks, climate finance director with Stand.earth.

Organizations like CAPP and the API are welcome to make this the hill they die on, of course. But there’s a growing army of people, many of them on Bay and Wall streets, who will be more than happy to put a sword through their hearts. It’s up to the companies that fund those organizations, both here in Canada and in the United States, to decide whether they want to die there with them or not.  

The Supreme Court of Canada's ruling Ottawa's right to impose a carbon tax is just the latest in a series of humiliations for Jason Kenney, writes Max Fawcett.

Where does the Conservative Party of Canada go from here? How can Canadians put their trust in a political party that denies "climate change is real?" asks Gerald Kutney.

When we work to create a fair and affordable Alberta, we ultimately build a strong public service, writes Alberta Union of Provincial Employees president Guy Smith.

Perhaps the real reason for the Alberta government's "ruinously stupid" campaign is to deflect attention from the province's sorry economic state, writes Max Fawcett.

The Trudeau government’s refusal to offer ongoing COVID-19 relief to student loan borrowers is indicative of a larger problem plaguing post-secondary education in the last few decades, writes #FreezeTheNSLSC organizer Patty Facy: Student debt is profitable.

National Observer columnist Andrea Reimer is proud to say she's down to one bag of garbage every three months or so.

Enbridge calls Line 5 “as good as new” and says it can last “forever,” even though the pipeline has failed at least 33 times since 1968, spilling more than 1.1 million gallons of oil in Michigan and Wisconsin, write Maude Barlow and Jim Olson.

For many people around the world right now, it’s not just the threat of contracting COVID-19 that most concerns them — it’s whether their families, especially their young children, can survive another day without food.

We should be skeptical of those who offer recommendations in a field in which they lack the relevant training and competence, writes philosophy professor Colin Ruloff.

Columnist Max Fawcett makes a case for taxing capital gains on your home.

Canada’s longest coastline in the world, along with the U.S.’s largest exclusive economic zone, makes for an ocean-based North American blue economy powerhouse of the future, writes Kate Moran.

If palm oil from the rainforest for cows in the Prairies is either efficient or economical, we have a broken system, writes Shane Moffatt, leader of Greenpeace Canada’s nature and food campaign.

Ottawa does not have a national climate security strategy, which leaves Canada vulnerable to security risks related to climate change, writes researcher and policy analyst Luthfi Dhofier.