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Left-wing political parties must build a multi-racial, working-class coalition for progressive change dedicated to real, measurable, material improvement in the lives of ordinary people, writes Jen Hassum.
If anyone needs an example of the dangers associated with cutting back on rules and regulations, they need only look at Michael and Doug Ford’s Ontario, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
The Canadian Environmental Protection Act is woefully inadequate at protecting people’s bodies from present-day environmental health harms, writes Honour Stahl of the Women's Healthy Environments Network.
Oil companies are asking the federal government to allow them to release the tailings into the Athabasca River, which flows north into one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world.
The longer people are fed that sort of toxic nonsense, the more likely it is that it winds up in the head of someone who could do something about it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
In our current regulatory scheme, the monetary value of one Anna’s hummingbird nest — $88,000 or $4,000 — is inconsequential and of zero deterrent value to Trans Mountain's proponents, writes Sara Ross.
