Opinion

“Birds of a feather flock together,” so I am sure that nearly all of those reading this article accept the main findings of climate science. Yet many people don’t. Instead, they believe a variety of climate myths.

One day those who haven’t yet been born will look at these pictures and marvel that no one gathered there knew what would happen next.

"The time to act is now," the NDP MP writes, explaining why she has joined the call for a grassroots movement for global social, environmental and economic justice.

As the federal government invests multi millions in a chicken processing facility, Animal Justice director Anna Pippus says it's time for an urgent transition to a plant-based diet to help save the planet.

This is the terrain on which the great struggle of our time is being waged: who defines crisis, who benefits from it, and what is made invisible in the process. And we are not yet winning: this very same month saw plenty of genuine crises, all connected to climate breakdown, which made only time-limited appearances in our national debate.

To understand our climate movement’s evolution, read Nietzsche. To understand our Achilles’ heel, study Gandhi.

An increasing use of back-to-work legislation indicates that the post-war period of labour peace in Canada may soon be over, writes columnist Nora Loreto.

As a moratorium on oil tankers off the north coast moves closer to becoming law, the Hereditary Chiefs and political leaders of First Nations along the North Pacific Coast pledge our full support for the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act and urge the Senate to pass Bill C-48.

Toronto reporter Fatima Syed explores what is changing in Ontario politics and shares five things you may not know about Ontario's first-ever Green MPP.

Has the situation gotten out of hand?

The Green New Deal, catapulted onto the national agenda by a fiery mixture of political champions like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and mass youth-led organizing by the Sunrise Movement, is perhaps the most straightforward policy proposal for tackling climate change that many of us have ever seen.

It feels like an instant replay of the project’s last NEB review, which concluded in 2016. That review and the resulting federal cabinet approval of the pipeline and tanker project resulted in 15 legal challenges that led to a two-week hearing at the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA). The result? The court quashed the federal approval

No one would minimize the deep distress of workers losing their jobs in Oshawa, writes Elizabeth May. But the idea that the jobs must be saved because we must keep making the internal combustion engine is as tone deaf to global reality as deciding we have to buy a pipeline because oil prices are low. 

B.C.’s proposed new Environmental Assessment Act is a massive improvement over what’s in place now, but experts say it doesn’t go far enough to protect the environment or ensure Indigenous consent.