Opinion

With the latest changes to our Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) laws, we have not witnessed a slippery slope in Canada, we have fallen off a cliff.

In fairness, the current federal government is hardly alone in failing to meet the moment here. City councils in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal continue to cater to the noisy whims of local homeowner groups and other organized expressions of NIMBYism, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

As the organizing director for the West Kootenay EcoSociety and Neighbours United, she leads teams that have already persuaded 13 regional municipalities to set climate pollution reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement.

Is it possible we are nearing the tipping point of hope about the fate of our warming planet, finally poised to offset the negativism of the last decade?

By forcing Putin to choose either butter or guns, economic sanctions lock him in a vise that is gradually tightening.

I’d been treesitting in protest of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) for months. While my friends and I were literally holding the fort, conservationists were doing critical work on the ground, writes Emily Kelsall.

The good news is that reducing methane from the oil and gas industry is the single fastest, available and affordable opportunity to slow down the rate of climate warming. The bad news is that Canada isn’t taking full advantage of this opportunity.

But the convoy-tinged rot in the Conservative Party of Canada goes much deeper than some of its members, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

This December’s UN Convention on Biological Diversity summit, or COP15, has been relocated from Kunming, China, to Montréal. The meeting may provide an ideal opportunity to push Canada and other nations to do better.

The great forests of B.C. were a source of unlimited wealth. We are now reaching the limits of available supply.

According to Oxford Economics, there were 2.3 million fewer people working in aviation worldwide last September compared to the beginning of the pandemic, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Now that MPs and senators have returned home for the summer, it’s a good time to assess the progress made on environmental issues during the first half of 2022.

Since kids seem to innately know what is healthier for them and the planet, why not feed provide healing doses of kindness and science in whatever way we feel inspired to?

As the sustainability engagement co-ordinator at the University of Waterloo and a member of the Intermunicipal Partnership for Active Transportation advocacy group, this 24-year-old is applying her research to ensure youth are heard.

It wasn’t that long ago the Maple Leaf flag was a mostly inoffensive, and occasionally inspiring, symbol of Canadian national pride, writes columnist Max Fawcett.