Opinion

As Americans and millions around the world sit transfixed by the news emerging from the Mueller investigation, one question seems glaringly absent. How did a guy like Trump elude major scrutiny by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS, gambling regulators and every other major police agency for his entire adult life?

The Liberal plan to legalize pot next year will not only make history. It may be key to the governing party’s chances of re-election in 2019. Polling data that surfaced after the 2015 election suggests that the youth vote strongly contributed to the Liberals’ majority win at the ballot box. Millennials reportedly turned up at the ballot box in “unprecedented” numbers.

John Bennett questions Canada Pension Plan investments in coal assets - think Rio Tinto - when the government is on the global stage championing the transition from coal to a low-carbon future.

Stalling, raising doubt about research and exempting industry from regulations, as Ontario has done, will increase risks for boreal caribou.

Even if the NDP government opposes the pipeline, the Liberal government approved it.

"The process of decolonizing my spirit and finding my way back to my sacred responsibilities had begun," writes National Observer reporter Emilee Gilpin in Vancouver, B.C.

The bottom line is that it's going to take more resources in British Columbia schools and school districts to ensure all kids have access to in-school educational programs.

Lynaya Astephen responds to a tweet from her mayor with a love letter for environmental renewal in New Brunswick.

New research has found that three quarters of the world's honey contains a pesticide known to kill bees. It's time to ban its use altogether, writes celebrated scientist David Suzuki.

A 21st-century Canadian Environmental Protection Act could save health care dollars.

We cannot build a new, clean economy by building more of the dangerous, polluting infrastructure the world is trying to phase out.

Krista Hiddema, the vice-president of Mercy for Animals in Canada, unpacks the environmental implications of fish farming and what you might be getting a piece of when you eat fish.

Jagmeet Singh approached the somewhat obscure Skyrocket, a boutique Vancouver branding agency co-founded by Mo Dhaliwal for help with his campaign.

This morning we learned that the Energy East pipeline project, the largest pipeline ever proposed in in Canada, was terminated by TransCanada.

Last week’s column about B.C.’s housing affordability crisis didn’t mention the role of dirty money in the dramatic rise in real estate prices.