Opinion

Using uncertainty about the ecological and climate crisis as an excuse to wait and see is bad for business, bad for farming and bad for human health.

Removing most homeowners’ eligibility from a new energy-efficient grants program is a step backwards and out of sync with Canadians’ affordability concerns.

Inflation is on track to end 2024 below two per cent, and interest rate cuts are almost surely on their way sooner than that. So why do the provinces keep doing things that drive up the cost of living — and will Pierre Poilievre ever call them out?

The defeat and breakup of the hard-right CPC is the necessary first step in the rebirth of a new progressive conservatism.

With almost everyone turning on the carbon tax, it's time for Justin Trudeau to make the ultimate political sacrifice. How eliminating the carbon tax could end up saving good climate policy in this country — and maybe even his government.

Teachers’ pensions are being mined to prop up the fossil fuel industry. When will the BC Teachers’ Federation address the destruction of our students’ futures?

Wab Kinew's infectious optimism is a welcome relief from the negativity and nastiness that pervades our politics right now. Can he be Canada's answer to Barack Obama?

Canada's provinces and territories should be held entirely responsible for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

If changing the course of a major global industry seems out of reach, you might take heart from the students at Tvind high school in Jutland, Denmark, who built the world’s largest wind turbine in 1978.

As a founder of the youth-led, not-for-profit Community Climate Council, Miranda Baksh helps volunteers in the racialized and newcomer-dominated Peel region of southern Ontario learn how our changing climate impacts them and the places they know.

There are steps Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland can take in next month’s budget to address immediate affordability concerns while also setting the economy on a path toward lower emissions.

The former mayor of Calgary is now officially part of the race to replace Rachel Notley as Alberta NDP leader. In the process, he's challenging the very nature of the party — and its inclination towards choosing principles over power.

The timing has more to do with a widespread media campaign aimed at resisting the inevitable transition to cleaner and more efficient transportation technology.

Analysis of the effects of reduced economic activity during the pandemic revealed that CO2 in the atmosphere was reduced as fossil fuel usage fell during the same period. It then quickly rebounded as economic activity resumed, putting a lie to claims human activity does not affect CO2 levels. 

The movement to ban fossil fuel advertising is about saving lives. People in Canada are already dying from fossil fuel pollution, with more deaths to come.