Opinion

When Breshna Hellali's family immigrated from Afghanistan in 2022 following the collapse of the democratic government, they believed that securing a rental home would be a process they could navigate.

We need to be more aggressive in our fight with the fossil fuel companies and their financial institution enablers

For Belleville, Ont. native Jessica Turner, there is gratification in opening eyes to the climate crisis using artistic media. That's why she plans to make a career of it.

The Canadian housing market does not suffer from a lack of ideas. It suffers from a lack of execution.

It sends mixed signals for Ontario to forge a path toward being a manufacturer of EVs, parts and batteries while failing to encourage the use of them at home.

A look at photos of the world-famous Sudbury Holiday Inn shows a square concrete block – with windows – featuring a kidney-shaped pool that could accommodate dozens of swimmers if nobody tried to swim

A new Canada-U.S. treaty to support salmon restoration and ecosystem health rings hollow without continued investment in salmon reintroduction by Canada and B.C.

Alberta and Saskatchewan's funding of small nuclear reactors is an obstructionist tactic to slow down the transition away from fossil fuels.

Ulaanbaatar is a modest coal-burning city of 1.5 million with an air pollution problem so severe there are Reddit threads debating whether it is the world’s worst.

Renewable energy investments have also experienced growing earnings over the past 10 years due to steadily decreasing cost of capital across the globe.

The Jasper wildfire devastated a community and destroyed homes. It also threatened a public pension fund investment, illustrating how the accelerating climate crisis puts our collective retirement savings at risk.

The government has rigged the market for industry, with the influx of cheap foreign labour suppressing the capacity for domestic workers to bargain for better wages and working conditions.

More than 230 million litres of oil were collected across nine provinces in 2022. Fortunately, much of that dirty engine oil is recycled by organizations such as British Columbia’s Interchange Recycling.

Following the Jasper wildfire, some have suggested we should direct funding toward adaptation to climate change instead of prevention. This thinking is fundamentally flawed — and will only cost more in the long run.

Until now, successive Alberta and federal governments have given the oilsands companies an easy environmental ride, possibly fearing that too much scrutiny could jeopardize a huge economic driver.