Opinion

It's no small irony that today is the eight-year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti that devastated the country and took more than 700,000 lives. The country's continued resiliency and dignity stands in sharp contrast to the unkind words of a pampered man who has never known a day of struggle or deprivation in his entire life.

According to the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, inequality in B.C. is the highest in Canada and growing at a fast rate. We can do better, writes columnist Tracy Sherlock.

It’s been a long time since I’ve heard durability as a positive attribute of a product. In today’s fashion-obsessed world, how many children would accept hand-me-downs from siblings?

With the election of Donald Trump, it’s become clear that the American system for choosing a political leader — which has much in common with the Canadian system — is in serious trouble, and needs to be changed.

Atmospheric hurricanes have devastated many lives recently, their ferocity enhanced by warm seas and moist air associated with climate change. And that same historic crisis, coupled with massive droughts and huge social and political stresses in the Middle East and North Africa, is creating human migrations on this planet so violent they can be described as 'refugee hurricanes.'

Despite progress in stabilizing the stratospheric ozone layer, all the other problems scientists looked at in 1992 have worsened.

In an era of click-bait and instant gratification, a sea-change may be hard to apprehend. The mass migrations we are witnessing is one such revolution. So, too, is the rise of the right and populism everywhere, whether ISIS, Trump, or Modi. The question is whether the perfect storm of anger and hate on one hand, and apathy combined with willful ignorance on the other, will rise to the fore.

This was the year that transformed Donald Trump from buffoon candidate into president of the United States and sent the globe careening toward the precipice over which it now teeters. It was the year the world began to comprehend how deeply Russian propaganda has penetrated the American psyche. They used a wholly unexpected and lethal weapon — our own irresistible addiction to the Internet.

In this era of climate action, trying to sell natural gas with weak methane regulations is like trying to sell oil that produces higher emissions. The world is less and less interested.

Comme disait le proverbe, un mensonge a le temps de se rendre à l’autre bout du monde alors que la vérité en est encore à mettre ses souliers.

There's more at stake than being 'wrong' when you publish a story containing false information about a marginalized or vulnerable community, writes Montreal columnist and former news director Toula Drimonis.

Greenpeace author Jessica Wilson says the federal energy regulator is playing fast and loose with constitutional obligations by allowing Kinder Morgan to bypass Burnaby, B.C. bylaws for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

These days, we as a society are talking and writing a lot about deaths related to addiction, and the drugs that fuel them. But we've been glacially slow to deal with this human tragedy because of deep-seated, long-standing and widespread prejudice against addicts.

Empowered by fossil fuel–driven technology, a rapidly growing human population and an insatiable demand for constant growth, our species is responsible for the calamitous consequences.

The themes raised at a recent workshop in Europe represent a great opportunity for the Bank of Canada and our financial market regulators to consider how Canadian financial sector giants are preparing for a clean energy future.