Opinion

Have you received the ballot for B.C.'s referendum on election reform (despite the rotating strike at Canada Post)? Great. Now for the important part — figuring out which voting system you support most. 

It's an absurd notion that we are adding oil to the fire of populism, harming democracy, somehow capitulating to the “flaky, easily flustered” PC crowd, or turning off moderates who will inevitably jump into the arms of white supremacy if denied the right to listen to Steve Bannon’s hateful rhetoric, writes columnist Toula Drimonis.

After Saturday's shooting in a neighbourhood that was the best place I’ve ever lived, I feel unsafe in a way I haven’t since I was a small child.

Although the public broadcaster has shifted its tone slightly, the original article stands and the criticism keeps mounting.

"The war in Yemen and in Syria, in which Saudi Arabia plays a role, has created a refugee crisis around the world that is having national repercussions here," says Marie Lamensch, project coordinator at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University.

In response to Brazil's election of a wildly neo-fascist president, CBC News is glowing about new opportunities for Canadian mining companies in devastating the Amazon.

A proportional voting system favours voters. It ensures that just about every single vote counts for something: either support for a particular party, or support for a local representative, or both, writes columnist Warren Bell.

As other major countries develop plans to ban gasoline vehicles and increase sales of electric cars, it can be hard just to find an electric car in B.C.

This Khashoggi business has turned into a laughable parody of a Monty Python dead parrot sketch.

In the face of possible and widespread disruption to our integrated North American economy, we have protected more than $2-billion a day in cross-border trade and tariff-free access for more than 70 percent of Canadian exports, writes Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, defending the new United States Mexico Canada Agreement.

Climate change isn’t just about starving polar bears or melting ice, writes Sheila Watt-Cloutier. It is about human rights, human health, food security, poverty, loss of traditional knowledge, and global insecurity as traditional ways of life that are lost to glacier melt, coastal erosion, permafrost melt, rising seas, extreme drought, floods and violent weather.

Chris McDermott, one of Canada's early climate change negotiators, says it's time to ask: At what point do we decide that a carbon tax is too politically toxic to pursue further and start talking about alternatives?

Okanagan Nation Grand Chief Stewart Philip put it best when he said that the decision to exclude Indigenous peoples from the Treaty’s renegotiation is a “shocking unilateral decision” and an “act of absolute treachery.”

It's hard for me as a man talk about what women face in the political realm, but as an observer of social behaviour, I can tell you they have a much harder time than men.

Incumbent mayoral candidate John Tory’s inability to grasp the existence, extent, and implications of his white privilege is akin to white Toronto’s inability to grasp mayoral candidate Faith Goldy. Both are rooted in a conflict-averse fragility that comfortably masquerades as pragmatism.