Opinion

Though not the only measure necessary, facilitating equitable Indigenous participation for new energy investments is fundamental to advancing economic reconciliation.

Pierre Poilievre's pledge to crack down on housing gatekeepers has proven to be little more than empty talk. Ironically, it's been Doug Ford and other Conservative politicians — the real housing gatekeepers — who have done the proving here.

The planet's dire context is mostly absent from the Canadian carbon pricing debate.

Finnegan Brown, 16, uses art and political action to protect our climate. A high school student from Sooke, B.C., Brown received a 2023 I-SEA Youth Climate Activism Award. 

Solving the problem of who pays for climate mitigation is crucial to setting up a workable emissions reduction plan for Canada.

Using uncertainty about the ecological and climate crisis as an excuse to wait and see is bad for business, bad for farming and bad for human health.

Removing most homeowners’ eligibility from a new energy-efficient grants program is a step backwards and out of sync with Canadians’ affordability concerns.

Inflation is on track to end 2024 below two per cent, and interest rate cuts are almost surely on their way sooner than that. So why do the provinces keep doing things that drive up the cost of living — and will Pierre Poilievre ever call them out?

With almost everyone turning on the carbon tax, it's time for Justin Trudeau to make the ultimate political sacrifice. How eliminating the carbon tax could end up saving good climate policy in this country — and maybe even his government.

The defeat and breakup of the hard-right CPC is the necessary first step in the rebirth of a new progressive conservatism.

Canada's provinces and territories should be held entirely responsible for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Teachers’ pensions are being mined to prop up the fossil fuel industry. When will the BC Teachers’ Federation address the destruction of our students’ futures?

Wab Kinew's infectious optimism is a welcome relief from the negativity and nastiness that pervades our politics right now. Can he be Canada's answer to Barack Obama?

As a founder of the youth-led, not-for-profit Community Climate Council, Miranda Baksh helps volunteers in the racialized and newcomer-dominated Peel region of southern Ontario learn how our changing climate impacts them and the places they know.

If changing the course of a major global industry seems out of reach, you might take heart from the students at Tvind high school in Jutland, Denmark, who built the world’s largest wind turbine in 1978.