Opinion

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.

Some topics are just too big to be covered in one column. That’s why, over the next two weeks, Max Fawcett will tackle the housing crisis and the ways we could address it in a series of them. First up: the need for more federal leadership. 

The rest of us have already wasted far too much time trying to humour anti-vaxxers' beliefs and accommodate their demands, writes columnist Max Fawcett. Now, it’s time for us to move on — and leave them behind.

The collapse of U.S. democracy would carry especially damaging climate consequences, writes Mark Hertsgaard, co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now.

To save the planet, the degrowth movement calls not for us to sacrifice prosperity, but to redefine it, writes Peter Sutoris.

We need to look hard at our shared attitude towards public schools and teachers, and why our elected officials have been so willing to make them carry the weight, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Beyond individual action, Canadians could accept a system that will tangibly assign financial costs to the increasing environmental impacts of flying so that those who choose to fly pay the bill, writes Ralph Martin.

Media outlets must begin thinking about what we learned from COP26, and how we can use the UN conference as a blueprint for climate coverage in 2022.

For decades, Alberta’s conservative politicians have complained about the preferential treatment Quebec receives from the federal government and its elected officials, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

With physical infrastructure such as highways being washed away and buildings collapsing around us (think B.C. fires and floods and the East Coast floods) faith groups are ready to become first responders.

Instead of cutting ties with the industry, banks and other large financial institutions should use their proverbial gold to make new rules, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Municipalities are recognizing faith-based organizations as collaborators and partners during climate-related emergencies and COVID-19.

If we don’t change the way we eat, we’ll smash through our environmental limits, writes Karen Levenson. Consume plant-based foods or consume the planet; it’s our choice.

The stiff upper lip that characterized the conservative mindset in Great Britain has been replaced in contemporary Canada by a perpetually quivering bottom one, writes columnist

While international human rights pariahs such as China, Myanmar, Egypt, and Russia dominate the list of countries jockeying for the infamous title of “world’s most repressive regime,” oceans away, concerns about press freedom have begun to wash ashore on Canada’s West Coast, writes Brent Jolly.