Opinion

A rising chorus of youth voices is growing across the front lines of climate change as they demand “loss and damage finance — now!”

Despite a number of polls showing the UCP trailing Rachel Notley’s NDP, Danielle Smith seems determined to keep pushing unpopular ideas and polarizing policies.

Inaction on grid renewal is a dangerous combination of denial and delay, which ultimately results in infrastructure not being in place when wide-scale electrification begins to grow exponentially.

Should we treat the climate emergency like a war? Seth Klein thinks so. In his book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, he lays out a comparison between the Second World War and the climate crisis. He argues that we can't win the war unless we work together like we did in the war against the Nazis. Max Fawcett challenges that idea.

To impress upon policymakers and the public the need to simultaneously balance short- and medium-term climate priorities, we need a more powerful narrative.

Wearing a mask in crowded public settings for a few weeks is hardly the affront that the loud and selfish would like us to believe, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

This editorial calling for action from world leaders on the climate crisis is published today by more than 30 media organizations in more than 20 countries

More than 60,000 jobs can be created by 2030 through investment in climate resilience, according to a new analysis from the Smart Prosperity Institute, supported by the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

This 25-year-old and her young colleagues at Act4Food Act4Change have organized more than 160,000 people from over 100 countries to call on decision-makers to change our food systems so people are put first. 

Conservatives' inability to see cryptocurrency flaws speaks to their judgment, their ability to detect bullshit, and their willingness to traffic in unproven ideas, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

In the era of climate change, cutting conservation authorities out of the development process hinders climate progress and could spell disaster for residents living in flood zones.

Canada has no official position for or against deep-sea mining, and no legal regime that would categorically allow or prevent it.

It’s not often you watch a billionaire get humiliated in public, much less on a daily basis. But that’s what keeps happening to Elon Musk, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

At the 2022 United Nations climate change conference, COP27, each country must set out what it has done and intends to do to limit the increase of the global temperature to 1.5 C.

Against the backdrop of COP27, what can affluent nations like Canada do to change humanity’s destructive course and assume global leadership in building an inclusive, climate-safe global economy?