politics

A group of young Asian Canadian women, seeing few role models who looked like them in politics or academia, met online at this year’s virtual Daughter of the Vote event and have since joined forces to raise their voices.

The federal NDP is pushing the Liberal government to make permanent the emergency COVID-19 benefits it put in place early in the pandemic, arguing in a non-binding motion on a guaranteed livable income that such an effort would help eradicate poverty.

Natural health products like vitamin supplements are used widely by Canadians, but a lack of oversight from Health Canada has failed to guarantee the safety and efficacy of these products, a new report reveals.

"The refusal of large numbers of people to trade long-term benefits for short-term conveniences doesn’t augur well for our shared future," writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Enbridge calls Line 5 “as good as new” and says it can last “forever,” even though the pipeline has failed at least 33 times since 1968, spilling more than 1.1 million gallons of oil in Michigan and Wisconsin, write Maude Barlow and Jim Olson.

The federal NDP's constant attacks on Trudeau go down well in Alberta, where most people who vote NDP provincially are Liberal supporters, writes Max Fawcett.

When it comes to the conversation about renewable energy and climate change, the falsehoods fly faster and farther than ever before, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Alberta premier's chest-thumping style isn't winning him many friends these days, writes journalist Bruce Livesey.

Federal Green Party Leader Annamie Paul says rhetoric portrays “false choice” between jobs and environment. 

"Canadians deserve to feel confident that their seafood is safe, honestly labelled and legally caught,” says Sayara Thurston of Oceana Canada.

A legal battle has erupted over the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline that has spilled into the halls of Canada’s Parliament.

Payette joins a very short list of governors general who have left the post early, but is the first to do so mired in controversy. Her decision to leave will have both political and practical consequences for the minority Liberal government.

Federal party leader Erin O'Toole acknowledged that Sloan's dismissal was not solely over a donation he'd taken from a white nationalist.

Democracies are fragile and can fail when power-hungry leaders practise dog-whistle politics, writes Andrea Reimer.

“Capitalism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, anti-migrant sentiment, Islamophobia, anti-Indigenous sentiment, racism — all these things really help to uphold climate change, rather than work to fix it,” says Indigenous Climate Action's Lindsey Bacigal.