Opinion

The province is in a biodiversity crisis with over 1,800 at-risk species.

An e-petition is asking Parliament to support the recognition of “ecocide” as a crime at the International Criminal Court.

Pierre Poilievre has spent the last few years explaining how much he cares about protecting the freedom of Canadians. So why is he now promising to pre-emptively suspend their charter rights — and what would that mean for its future?

Despite all the signs that we need to be doing more, faster, the current political conversation around climate is to do much less: Remove the carbon tax, eliminate the clean electricity standard.

As the founder of Really Good Work, Drew Minns and his team design and implement online consumer experiences with the health of our planet front and centre.

As we watch greenwashers face legal challenges and massive fines, we will also see companies investing in genuinely sustainable products. 

Danielle Smith loves to complain about federal overreach into Alberta's affairs. But as her onerous new municipal governance legislation shows, she has absolutely no qualms about doing it herself when it comes to cities like Calgary and Edmonton.

Canada is positioning itself as a global destination for critical mineral extraction. Are we willing to destroy caribou herds and trample on Indigenous rights to do it?

There's a need to tackle Yukon's opioid crisis — and the answer may be in residents' toilets.

In B.C., Indigenous Peoples are expected to move seamlessly between two worlds and two sets of laws — sacred law and colonial law. When these are in conflict, they are asked to abandon one for the other.

The shift is meant to address the growing intergenerational inequalities and injustices that are clearly weighing on the Liberals’ poll numbers and popularity.

Though the Canadian government has begun working domestically to address plastic pollution, we need it to lead by example.

The inconvenient truth remains: plastic production is not only ongoing but expanding, fuelled by government subsidies.

Fifteen-year-old Anna Brozek is teaching business leaders about sustainability. Starfish Canada named this Fall River, Nova Scotia student one of 2023’s Top 25 Environmentalists under 25 for her Planet in Mind website.

Experts suggest commercial poultry, especially factory-farmed and crowded in barns, is one culprit behind the rapid spread of avian flu. But one response by the Canadian government is to compensate farmers — paying the industry millions for bird slaughters — without requiring improved biosecurity against potential pathogens. Perhaps we should question this approach.