Opinion

In the case of public health, private rights simply do not trump the common good. And people's lives and well-being should never be reduced exclusively to the parameters of a cost-benefit analysis.

Our DNA as a culture is about kindness, courtesy and consideration

A writer’s mental map of the milestones COVID-19 crossed in the past several weeks.

Canada needs a concerted effort to support the clean tech sector during the COVID-19 crisis or companies will go bankrupt or be so delayed in getting their technology to market that our competitive advantage could be lost.

It took months, but North American health authorities are finally recommending we cover our faces when we leave the house.  And that mask can be homemade. 

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Fridays for Future, the youth climate campaign, was seeing numbers of protesters decline and its calls for action falling short of its goals. Now, the movement is recalibrating its strategies to try to usher in the next phase of a global campaign.

We cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected with the coronavirus

Canada has a responsibility to keep inmates and detainees safe from the spread of coronavirus.

Canada’s traditionally strong oil and gas sector will never return to its halcyon boom days of the early 2000s. We need to rebuild the economy we want: a cleaner, resilient one.

“Will aunty die from the virus?” Andrea Landry's three-year-old daughter asked her one morning while they were playing quietly on the floor. Landry recognized her daughter's fear, and she recognized her own. She knew this pandemic was an invitation to feel complicated emotions, but also a time to look to traditional knowledge systems, to survive in the same way as her ancestors did.

Albertans should be asking themselves why TC Energy Corp. needed the Alberta government’s help in the first place. 

The killing of "lone wolf" Takaya should be the tipping point that triggers the end of the recreational killing of wolves in B.C.

Given the science we have about pandemics, climate change and other risks why do humans not take meaningful actions sooner?

Next provincial budget should address funding and implementation for a truly holistic roadmap for flood management in Ontario.