Opinion

While exposure to air pollution is the fourth-leading risk factor for death worldwide, it remains a silent public health emergency, writes Emma De Roy.

"For too long, the political conversation around density and development in our biggest cities has been dominated by a relatively small group of privileged homeowners."

What would be the best speech from the throne Canadians could hear later this month? Here's an imaginary take on one that would put Canada on a path to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy right away.

Grief is natural when contemplating a future where carbon emissions are not curtailed, but people should never lose hope.

Dozens of young Canadians are sounding the climate alarm in an open letter to Canadian politicians.

To conserve credibility and trust, governments need a bold and immediate shift in spending that considers respect for the environment and the strengthening of our social fabric.

Canadian workers and their skills will be vital to ensuring Canada has a place in a sustainable low-carbon world.

Instead of pushing for climate action to protect the Amazon, Canada is moving ahead with a free trade agreement with Brazil that threatens to pour gasoline on the blaze, writes Brandon Wei. 

Despite the rapidly escalating need to protect B.C.'s ecological communities, the tools granted to the Islands Trust to protect them are a fraction of what has been granted to the province's municipalities.

Canada is clearly playing an important role, not as a political powerhouse, but as a genuine contributor to the sense of progress, made all the more significant given our substantial oil production and export economy, writes Bruce Lourie.

Conservatives in Canada continue to place the rights of people who haven't taken a COVID-19 vaccine over their responsibilities to everyone else, including health-care workers.

Climate activism is no flash in the pan movement. Young people like Greta Thunberg will make it stick, writes David Tindall.

The amazing thing is that if cut to the core message, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg are pretty much saying the same thing at the UN climate conference: The hour is late and we are very far from where we need to be, writes Kairn Carrington.

Canada needs more transmission lines to connect provincial grids and allow us, as a nation, to play to our strengths.

Mainstream media has always favoured the right and social media, including Twitter and Facebook, are continuing that tradition, writes Max Fawcett.