Opinion

Live horses do not make up a significant percentage of the overall value of our total exports to Japan and serve only to satisfy a small niche market of wealthy individuals who are willing and able to pay top dollar for raw horse sashimi.     

After three years, COVID-19 is slipping from our collective consciousness, fading into the background, including its origins as a zoonotic infection linked to our use of animals.

Canada’s middle power strategy has served the country very well indeed. Why then, its defenders will inevitably ask, should we consider changing course now? 

What do Jordan Peterson, Pierre Poilievre and Elon Musk have in common? None of them understand how free speech actually works — especially in Canada, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Pierre Poilievre’s crypto catastrophe is more than a humorous political pratfall, writes public policy consultant Adil Sayeed.

Today, progress is being made, with over a dozen climate crisis courses now offered at major universities in Ontario. But none of those are mandatory courses for all undergraduate students, regardless of their discipline. 

Dr. Kevin Liang is a family physician practising in Vancouver. This 28-year-old is passionate about planetary health and tackling health-care's carbon footprint.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Tom Brodbeck looks at how the Conservative leader’s rhetoric is paving a more dangerous road, one that fuels extremist views and intolerance.

Pierre Poilievre has been starting political fires all across the country over the last year, columnist Max Fawcett writes.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes on how the sequel continues the “settler fantasy” as the Indigenous people in the film are, once again, unable to save themselves.

Canada is one of the world’s richest countries, yet millions of Canadians are poor. We meet three of them, looking at the measures they must take to survive and at the roots of poverty in Canada.

As part of #JusticeBeginsHere, Human Concern International has launched its national Water for Life campaign to educate Muslim Canadians on the lack of access in Indigenous communities.

Young Canadians from diverse faiths and spiritual practices are at the forefront of climate justice action.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is upset that taxes on alcohol are going up at the rate of inflation. The real question is whether they should be going up even more, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

This 16-year-old has published two novels and co-hosts a podcast introducing other teens to the world of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).