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Jane McArthur, toxics campaign director with the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, sits on the edge of half a century on this planet, but as a mother of two, can't help feeling like she shouldn't have to do this job.
What the average person rarely thinks about is the massive impact PPE is having on the already vast waste stream of plastic, particularly in industrialized societies, writes columnist Warren Bell.
Not a single government is fully prepared to help deliver a safe climate — despite the fact national emissions have only dropped by one per cent since 2005, write Prof. Thomas Gunton and the Pembina Institute's Isabelle Turcotte.
While Canada has stabilized its fossil fuel emissions at home, it is also exporting more emissions than ever before, writes Ecojustice lawyer Fraser Thomson.
It’s hard to miss as commissioner Steve Allan’s inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns tries to spin the conspiracy straw it was handed into political gold, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Historical monuments serve to valorize the past, not preserve it, and so it hardly counts as historical revisionism to wish to change the name of a school, writes Andrew Kemle, a master's student in political science at the University of Calgary.
The atmosphere doesn’t discern between carbon emitted from forests and carbon from fossil fuels — but Canada does, writes Jennifer Skene of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
CEOs of fossil fuel companies coming to Ottawa cap in hand for $50 billion of subsidies may be Canada's last chance to put the oilsands on a path to long-term environmental and financial sustainability, writes energy and climate journalist Markham Hislop.
