Opinion

It hasn’t even been signed into law yet, but an anti-greenwashing provision in a federal omnibus bill making its way through the House of Commons is already having an impact on how the fossil fuel industry and its boosters conduct themselves.

I started the Young Politicians of Canada because I saw gaps and exploitation of our political system.

Fast forward to 1993 and blockades had expanded to defend all intact areas of Clayoquot Sound. More than 800 people were arrested including this writer and environmentalist Tzeporah Berman, the woman who would later marry me on a summer solstice, at a remote beach on Vargas Island followed by a feast of Joe Martin-fire-smoked salmon.

What many Canadians are blissfully unaware of is that aging asbestos cement water pipes make up a large number of water main breaks.

McKenna Corvello helps youth become resilient in the face of climate change. The 23-year-old Carleton University master’s student works for Mochi4thePlanet, researching strategies for cultivating hope in young people.

A united far right would mean significantly increased visibility for its attempts to portray climate change mitigation as an ideological, unnecessary, and costly attack on Europeans’ way of life.

As the government seeks a reset ahead of the fall 2025 election, it desperately needs to shake things up. The Liberals need to reinvigorate the terrain with exciting ideas that can, finally, change the dreadful script that has characterized the last two years. On the climate front it’s time to stop being so damn boring and invite the fight with the fossil fuel industry and its political servants.

The battle against climate change can be powered with small microgrids, using the free energy of nature’s wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and ocean wave and current systems. 

New protections for remote work could empower employees to choose to live outside of crowded city centres nearer to an office, potentially causing a ripple effect where the supply of urban housing improves as people relocate and office towers are repurposed.

Oil and gas are Canada's top exports, but as the world embraces the so-called clean tech revolution, our per capita GDP is already shrinking. Without some plan to replace fossil fuels, our economy will face an unparalleled calamity.

Not only do we grieve for the lost and the losses to come, we have been complicit. We are grieving what we’ve done and are still doing. Here are two steps toward healing.

The war room’s long list of self-owns and other humiliating defeats is so well and widely known by now that even its staunchest defenders quietly acknowledge them. There will be no tearful eulogies for its contribution to the conversation around energy policy in Canada, and the only people who will miss it are the ones — like me — who used its constant follies as fodder for their own output.

If our present path doesn't change drastically, the science seems to suggest we are likely to experience a collapse of civilization — and we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame.

I have seen firsthand the tremendous benefits that come from holistic restoration where foresters build and execute a plan.

Shannon Phillips, who served as Alberta’s environment minister from 2015 to 2019, was a popular target for right-wing trolls and online agitators like Rebel Media.