Opinion

Climate change is an existential threat to humanity, yet our capacity to address it is undermined by widespread climate disinformation spread through online systems that taint our information environment with divisive junk science.

Stevie Cameron was a reporter whose career carries many lessons about the importance of dogged determination to get to the truth in an age of disinformation, misinformation and political spin.

Hydro-Québec estimates it will cost up to $185 billion in the coming 12 years just to support the province's climate goals.

The poor Liberal performance in the last three byelections don’t doom them to failure, but they do suggest that rumours of the party’s coming demise aren’t exaggerated.

Canadians, and especially younger ones, are dead tired of dealing with a housing market that continues to punish renters and prospective buyers while rewarding older homeowners with a seemingly endless bounty of price appreciation and untaxed capital gains.

The NDP's decision to abandon the Liberals restores the influence of the Bloc Québécois.

This is apparently how the carbon tax ends in Canada: not with a bang but a surrender. Last week, B.C. Premier David Eby acknowledged his government wouldn’t maintain the province’s long-standing consumer carbon tax — one that predates the federal version by a decade — if a future federal government eliminates its own.

Heat records were shattered again this summer. Yet even though concern about inflation has declined somewhat, climate change has not rebounded as a public priority.

In partnership with the Suzuki Elders, Solastalgia convenes intergenerational gatherings to use shared art creation and storytelling to explore climate emotions.

Ontario's renewables pledge was still undermined by its ongoing plans to expand gas plants and keep Ontarians hooked on fossil fuels.

From his fondness for online name calling to his studied indifference to things like causality and jurisdiction, Singh has behaved far more like the Conservative Party of Canada’s leader than the prime minister.

Carney is accomplished and plainly has tremendous capacity. He’s also a technocrat and a mild reformer who is very much of and within the boundaries of the status quo.

Federal political leaders are using class and socioeconomic status as political wedges for partisan gain.

Russia has long relied on so-called “useful idiots” to carry its ideological and political water, but these particular idiots belong in the useful idiocy hall of fame.

Canada will need its own plan to reduce emissions to avoid European Union tariffs — and our existing carbon pricing system already does that at the lowest possible cost.