Opinion

Our political leaders appear to be incapable of envisaging alternatives to the current path of dependence on carbon extraction and exports for revenue and employment, writes political scientist Laurie Adkin.

Across Canada and around the world today, people are marching for science. Under U.S. president Donald Trump’s administration, the dismissal and defunding of science – especially, but not limited to, climate and environmental science – has given new urgency to efforts to protect and promote science in the public interest.

As controversy swirls around the fate of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, a quieter storm is gathering about vehicle emissions.

“You’d be hard-pressed to find an Indigenous person who hasn’t experienced that kind of loss and that kind of grief. We all know someone who has been murdered."

Will Canada lead the world in the transition to a more sustainable financial system?

The recent tragic bus crash that took the lives of 16 travelling with the Humboldt Broncos has rightfully shaken many people across Canada. Popular folklore would present us as a “hockey nation”, one where our national sport forges bonds that transcend provincial and territorial borders, race, or even class.

A Matter of Confidence is a new book by two veteran B.C. legislature journalists, Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman. It begins with Gordon Campbell’s disastrous 2009 decision to bring in the Harmonized Sales Tax, which ultimately cost him his job, and ends with the 2017 swearing in of John Horgan as B.C.’s first BC NDP premier since 2001.

Are you listening? While human instinct is often to turn away from stories of violence, loss and pain, in the case of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, people should lean in.

The Haíłzaqv (Heiltsuk) are marine people. Our oral history confirms our existence in our territory since time immemorial. Archaeological evidence corroborates that my people have continuously lived in relationship to our lands and waters for at least 14,000 years, over 700 generations.

Pruitt has lost control of the media narrative in the past week, as numerous outlets have reported on his snowballing ethics scandals. But if he keeps his job — there are reports that President Trump still has his back — you can expect him to double down on his media machinations.

Almost two-thirds of Canada’s 130 residential schools were run by the Catholic Church and many atrocities (physical, sexual, and psychological abuse perpetuated at the hands of nuns and priests and other religious staff members) were committed in the name of “beating the Indian” out of Indigenous children and aggressively converting them to Christianity.

Canadians see waterways as integral to our national identity. Do we take the abundance of water for granted?

While the government’s decision to conduct a full investigation into a flaring incident in south Sarnia is an important step, more needs to be done to protect Ontarians

“It is only when the emergency becomes articulate that we can locate that willingness to serve.” Leonard Cohen