Anti-vaxxers are stealing our flag. Let’s take it back
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.
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Only political will and action can hold off B.C.’s climate threats
What is clear is that B.C. will continue to experience more frequent and severe climate-related disasters. The question is: how are we going to respond to these threats?
It’s Plastic Free July. Reuse, refill, rinse and repeat
Monique Labelle-Wheeler has been refilling the same plastic bottle with dish soap for 10 years. She figures she has saved about 120 plastic bottles from the landfill, writes Becky Rynor.
Let’s never forget last summer’s deadly heat in B.C.
On June 29, 350.org, along with partners and grassroots organizers across the country, is organizing to mark the one-year anniversary of the heat dome with a call to end climate delay in Canada.
Why Roe v. Wade matters in Canada
If there’s good news here, it’s that abortion rights are on much firmer ground in Canada, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
A message from Ukraine: Don’t be fooled — push for new LNG export facilities in Canada isn’t about ‘helping Europe’
Let us be clear: Europe and Ukraine do not need your gas. We need more clean, affordable, accessible and transparent energy policies, ones based on the best available science and technology — not on vested interests.
What’s driving inflation? The fossil fuel economy
For all the talk about deficits, supply chains and other knock-on impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, oil and gas have applied the bulk of the inflationary pressure on both global economies and household budgets, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Beyond the climate crisis gloom and doom: Kids just get climate action
Leave it to a pyjama-wearing eight-year-old to spark an epiphany in her father about climate action.
Millions of women have abortion stories. Here’s mine
"Thanks to Roe v. Wade, I had choices when having kids at the centre of my life wasn’t a great idea."
New research says leave 40 per cent of existing fossil fuels in the ground
Exploring for more oil, delineation of new fields, constructing new oil infrastructure and commissioning new projects are all activities that waste Canada's shrinking carbon budget.
Headlines have slowed, but has old-growth logging in B.C.?
The B.C. government has promised to save old-growth, yet giant 1,000-year-old trees continued to be cut down. “Talk and log,” an adage coined in the 1990s, returned to popular use and cynicism was everywhere.
Where is Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on the climate emergency?
If the finance minister really wanted to show us that she understands and is ready to lead on the climate emergency, what would she do? asks columnist Seth Klein. He has a few suggestions.
Danielle Smith is trying to provoke a constitutional crisis with Canada
After leading the Wildrose Party to defeat in a 2012 Alberta election and betraying her own caucus by crossing the floor to the governing Progressive Conservatives in 2014, Danielle Smith is taking one last kick at the can with her bid to become leader of the United Conservative Party.
The treesit ‘Eagle’ was a masterpiece with four walls, a roof, six windows, a bed and a heater
When I first heard of the treesit, I imagined something easily accessible and low to the ground. How wrong I was.
Time to take climate change and decarbonizing our energy system seriously
As a society, we need to acknowledge the tradeoffs of all these options for achieving net-zero and discuss what impacts we will accept.
