Opinion

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?

This 24-year-old student works at SevenGen, providing mentoring, funding, skill and capacity-building to teams of emerging young Indigenous energy transition leaders.

To ensure our carbon tax does not damage the Canadian economy or the climate through leakage, we need to implement carbon border adjustments, or CBAs.

Are they here to serve and protect the public, or just the portions of it that share their ideological convictions and partisan beliefs? asks columnist Max Fawcett.

The federal government has lots of cash, but little political courage, writes David Macdonald, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

If Doug Ford and François Legault have their way, Canada may not have a Charter worth defending for much longer, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Big Oil created the climate crisis; they haven’t even begun to pay their fair share towards climate action.

Policy wonks inadvertently got us into this growing standoff over federal carbon pricing, but they might just be the ones who can get us out, too, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

To capture the real potential of next-generation climate policies informed by “circular thinking,” a more strategically focused approach is required.

To Canada’s leaders heading to COP27 who may find themselves struggling with the “balancing of climate policy and energy security policy,” remember that there is a force of parents united across this country here to remind you what is at stake.

It’s abundantly clear, given both his statements about being a “free speech absolutist” and his own interventions on Twitter, that Musk isn’t going to crack down on the spread of misinformation or conspiracy theories.

Honeybees are facing lower survivorship and greater stress than ever due to disease, pesticides, extreme weather and poor land management practices.

For the past 13 years, this spoken word poet from Victoria, B.C., has mentored hundreds of high school students at the annual Victorious Voices spoken word festival.

Most Canadians say they want provincial and territorial governments to match the federal pledge to protect 30 per cent of land and ocean in Canada by 2030, writes Sandra Schwartz of CPAWS. 

Any significant attempt right now to help Canadians contend with inflation would be like trying to put a fire out with gasoline, writes columnist Max Fawcett.