Opinion

I could never shake the nagging feeling that I was standing on the sidelines, watching idly as ecosystems around me fell like dominoes, writes Auston Chhor.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says when it comes to health care and the pandemic, her government will ignore the experts and listen to ordinary people instead.

While the B.C. government claims to be a climate leader — touting its CleanBC plan as the strongest climate plan in North America — the evidence tells a different story.

As the director of the Climate Justice Organizing Hub, this 24-year-old Montrealer helps thousands of Canadian volunteer climate activists learn from each other.

Time will tell whether Anjali Appadurai’s martyrdom ends up costing the BC NDP the next election, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Canada does have a particularly poor track record in meeting climate targets, and Liberal governments in Canada tend to wear the “missing targets” badge more than others.

Unlike the usual shenanigans in party leadership races, where membership rolls are sometimes padded with fake identities and nonexistent entities, the people who joined the NDP to vote for a climate justice champion are entirely real.

Our increased dependence on the U.S., our smaller relative weight in a globalized world, and our general disinterest and lack of investment in international affairs all leave Canada unequipped to play the role of a middle power.

The hard work of Canada's medical professionals to battle COVID-19 has been undermined by a small army of right-wing pundits, politicians, and pandemic opportunists who have depleted our stores of social capital.

Improving energy efficiency for low-income households needs urgent attention because they are excluded from federal policy, write Brendan Haley and Abhilash Kantamneni of Efficiency Canada.

With official Ottawa now engrossed in an inquiry into the Emergencies Act, it’s a good time to remember that vaccines and other COVID measures saved thousands of lives.

Premier Danielle Smith's entire electoral strategy revolves around ignoring Calgary and Edmonton, where most Albertans live, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Patricia Lane talks to the Montreal-based founder of Arrêtons GNL, a coalition of most student unions in Quebec, about plans to make his movement Canada-wide.

Cities need a youthful infrastructure that includes affordability, good jobs, safety, mobility, a net-zero focus, physical and mental health, and fun with entertainment, music and green space based on metrics young people devise. 

For all of its noisy talk about oil and gas, the Alberta government has been curiously quiet about the success of its solar energy industry, writes columnist Max Fawcett.