Opinion

It felt weirdly self-indulgent to mourn the loss of a Montreal skating rink when Cape Town, South Africa, is on track to run out of water in April. But both are strong reasons to step up the fight against climate change, writes Mitchell Beer.

No one is violating anyone’s right to protest. People who oppose abortion on moral grounds are still perfectly free to say so. They are simply no longer free to do it while wearing sandwich boards plastered with gruesome pictures of what they claim are aborted fetuses while yelling in a woman’s face while she’s about to undergo a very private, personal, and perfectly legal procedure.

Many Canadians cannot afford their medication, so they skip doses, split pills, or simply don't fill their prescriptions. It's time for a universal pharmacare program, writes Canadian Labour Congress president Hassan Yussuff.

Opinion: Alberta political scientist Laurie Adkin concludes that Alberta's war cry against British Columbia over oil transport restrictions is an ill-fated strategy. "All Canadians are in this together."

The cosmos must be messing with Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley. Just as the Kinder Morgan pipeline controversy surges to fever pitch over oil spill impacts, a barge near Vancouver has sunk, spilling diesel into the ocean in the territory of the Squamish Nation.

Threatened and endangered species continue to disappear despite federal legislation designed to protect them and help their populations recover. What’s going wrong?

On the anniversary of the Quebec City mosque attack, we should take time to consider the women and children who continue to live the real life consequences of deep hate and violence, writes Reyhana Patel, head of public relations at Islamic Relief Canada.

Day after day, allegation after allegation, conviction after conviction, writer Toula Drimonis says she's inspired by those brave enough to come forward with their personal and painful #MeToo stories.

Criticizing these subsidies takes guts. It means targeting some of the world’s largest resource companies, writes celebrated Canadian scientist, broadcaster and TV show host David Suzuki.

In Canada, large-scale projects such as Site C in B.C. and Muskrat Falls in Labrador run counter to our commitments to combat climate change and respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Both projects are over budget and years behind schedule.

A dark cloud hovers over a Vancouver summit aimed at securing peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula, write two female civil society leaders.

Many, many countries with far fewer resources and far less wealth have accepted more of those in need than Canada. We can do better.

Premier Horgan announced in December that his government would proceed with the Site C dam, increasing its budget by more than 2 billion dollars despite having opposed it before.

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.