Opinion

At 32, linguist and storyteller Lindsay Borrows has practised law, written a book, introduced hundreds of law students to her people’s world view and is contributing to the revitalization of the Anishinaabe legal system.

"Five years (after the Paris Agreement), facing the ravages of the worst public health crisis in a century, what can we apply from our response to public health to our response climate change?" asks Catherine McKenna, former environment minister and current minister of infrastructure and communities.

LNG development will not only prevent Canada from meeting its emissions reduction targets, it may also be an economic non-starter due to decreased demand for fossil fuels and the increasing affordability of clean energy alternatives, says Beth Lorimer.

In conversation with Canada’s National Observer on Thursday evening, Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein flagged a tangential result of the past four years of Donald Trump: a deluge of hard-hitting, gobsmacking investigative journalism, Luke Ottenhof writes.

In the face of a pandemic and an unprecedented surge in government spending and economic support that has widespread public approval, the organization remains steadfast in its belief that governments ought to be doing less rather than more, Max Fawcett says.

"UNDRIP has become — depending on your politics — a key to transforming Canadian laws in an extraordinary act of reconciliation or a 'bogeyman,'" writes Karyn Pugliese, a.k.a. Pabàmàdiz.

Far from being merely “expenditures,” the federal government's fiscal update presents investments in the recovery as a “down payment” for a greener and more inclusive future Canada, says Sen. Rosa Galvez.

Alexa Goodman, 25, co-ordinates the remediation of abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear — otherwise known as “ghost gear” — for the Nova Scotia-based non-profit Coastal Action.

This fiscal update reminds us that in order to have a resilient Canada, we need to meet times of crisis with strong, smart ambition.

The broad-based mobilization of citizens is essential to ensuring the implementation of emissions reduction measures are commensurate with the urgency of the crisis, says Bruce Campbell.

Solar energy has an increasingly important role to play in combatting the global threat of climate change and helping Canada reach its 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target, writes Robert Hornung of the Canadian Renewable Energy Association.

For conservative premiers across the country, and conservative politicians throughout North America, protecting the freedom to do business seems more important than preventing the spread of a deadly virus.

Ask journalists and they’ll tell you the numbers revealed in a recent information commissioner’s report are the norm, rather than the exception, says Brett Jolly, national president of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

The economic decline will not end until people believe it is safe to resume their pre-COVID activities, say the Smart Prosperity Institute's Mike Moffatt and John McNally.

The federal fiscal update unveiled Monday is a chance to address the current crisis but also move into the rebuild phases of this pandemic, says David Macdonald, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.