Opinion

The pledge to provide new buildings with 100 per cent renewable gas is a fiction, an imaginary and arbitrary assignment, writes columnist Seth Klein.

The ever-more massive environmental footprint of cryptocurrencies might be defensible if they served some essential purpose in our lives, but that’s simply not the case, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Put simply: Canada and the world need carbon capture in the toolkit to address climate change and meet international climate obligations.

The Conservative leader recently released a 42-second video decrying the Liberal plan to phase out fossil fuels within the next year and a half, knowing it wasn’t true.

The federal government should make it easier to move out of overheated markets and into less frothy ones, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Wet’suwet’en still have access to a pure, clean water supply, unlike so many other Indigenous Nations. Why risk adding them to the list of those burdened with boil water advisories?

Both Liberal and Conservative prime ministers have allowed the building to deteriorate, almost certainly because they didn’t want to appear as though they were feathering their own nests, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Slow and unclear policies cause unexpected losses, leaving industry and financial actors less time to stick their landing in the climate transition, writes Julie Segal.

While some saw an obviously staged (and crassly executed) stunt, others treated it like a shining example of Doug Ford’s best political trait, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Columnist Seth Klein believes he has had a sneak peek at the B.C. government's Feb. 8 throne speech. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.

We have to find ways to make renting more lucrative for renters, not just their landlords, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Given the resistance of far-right bases to logic, morality, and reason, however, it seems unlikely that Goldy’s financial wrongdoings will do much, if anything, to alienate her supporters, writes Luke Ottenhof.

For a brief moment in time, public-minded values like community engagement and communal decision-making were allowed to eclipse private interests, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Many Asian-owned businesses have had to fight two foes during the pandemic: racism and the COVID lockdowns.

The suggestion that increased racial sensitivity by Canada’s public broadcaster is the effect of elite American liberal posturing is flatly bizarre, writes columnist Sandy Garossino.