Opinion

How do we balance the needs of an energy transition with the harsh realities of mining critical minerals? 

It’s fair to say the shipping sector matters when it comes to putting efforts into reversing the interlinked issues the planet faces today. 

It may come as a surprise that electrification of the transport trucking industry is well underway.

Genevieve Guenther, author of a new book, The Language of Climate Politics, highlights the six key terms that shape the language of climate change.

In a shared society, people experience — and respond to — the same forces. That includes getting angry and frustrated and keen to throw the bums out, whatever their ideological disposition, when things get tough. Because people want solutions to their problems.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s anti-environment record includes voting “yea” for legislation designed to weaken environmental safeguards.

Damage from extreme weather is disproportionately borne by Small Island Developing States.

If you focus on the kind of fires we’re worried about — the extreme fires — it’s clear that climate change is driving an exponential increase.

Urban and rural communities are pushing their MPs to champion a Universal Heat Pump Program.

I do not think that saving caribou is worth the slaughter of thousands of wolves.

The destruction of our forest and wetland ecologies will make the planet unlivable. We need housing policies that intensify our use of space within urban boundaries.

Canada is about to see a massive drop in GDP as the world decarbonizes. And to pretend otherwise is sleepwalking over a cliff.

I started the Young Politicians of Canada because I saw gaps and exploitation of our political system.

It hasn’t even been signed into law yet, but an anti-greenwashing provision in a federal omnibus bill making its way through the House of Commons is already having an impact on how the fossil fuel industry and its boosters conduct themselves.

Fast forward to 1993 and blockades had expanded to defend all intact areas of Clayoquot Sound. More than 800 people were arrested including this writer and environmentalist Tzeporah Berman, the woman who would later marry me on a summer solstice, at a remote beach on Vargas Island followed by a feast of Joe Martin-fire-smoked salmon.