Analysis

When wildfire smoke blankets a province, as it did in B.C. for weeks this summer, there are marked increases in asthma attacks and respiratory infections, as well as smaller increases for things like heart attacks and cardiac arrests, a B.C. scientist says.

Without enforceable Net Neutrality principles telecom companies could put a tollbooth on the Internet charging both websites and Internet users special fees to avoid slowdowns, writes Steve Anderson.

When it comes to preventing forest fires, responsibility for the work is a complicated dance between the province and small, civic governments.

​“Instead of the isolation and neglect of the past, a free and equal chance with children in urban centres.” This is the voice of a male narrator in a March 1955 CBC television piece about Canada’s residential schools. Since that piece aired more than six decades ago, the way Canadians look at residential schools has changed.

Canada and the rest of the world have punted a lot of the hard work on climate change ahead, leaving a massive "to-do" list for 2018. National Observer's managing editor, Mike De Souza, just back from Germany, analyzes the state of play in the complex international negotiations.

The lethal mix of migratory birds and oilsands tailings ponds are in the news again this fall.

This is the unfinished story of the floods that rocked central Canada in May, 2017: after helpful military members cleared out, after politicians talked about revising flood plans, some residents and homeowners are still on hold. They are still waiting to find out if they can rebuild, if they can go home, if their politicians have concrete plans for helping them in the future.

It seemed oddly perverse to many critics and observers when TransCanada Corporation announced its decision last week to sell off its solar assets and invest the proceeds in new natural gas projects.

In cutthroat real estate markets like Vancouver's, Chinese “Golden Week" in early October is auspicious. Chinese families often celebrate the week long national day holiday by visiting family or going on vacation. Sure as the rain, a flood of Chinese buying occurs in Vancouver during Golden Week each fall as flocks of investors and immigrants come to see real estate.

On the end of his Canadian tour, Roger Waters pretty much blew my mind. The visuals at the concert were brilliant, the music amazing. The overall effect was mind-altering.

B.C. and Canada have stood still on climate action since the Paris Agreement came into force in November 2016. The new council may change that.

For years, amid troubling emission data and oil facility failures, they debated whether to share this information with the public. In the end, it was not shared. Until we published it.

Did regulation kill Energy East? Conservative leader Andrew Scheer thinks it did and so does Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan. Warren Mabee of Queen's University has a different take.

Four atomic bombs a second, 36 Hurricane Irmas blasting non-stop. Global warming is supercharging our climate.

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