Opinion

As BC Hydro’s call for power signals the province’s commitment to expanding clean energy capacity, with a minimum 25 per cent First Nations equity stake, the need for Indigenous participation has never been greater.

As scientists who have spent the past decade researching the sources, impacts and developing technologies to address plastic pollution, we believe that bold action is needed to confront this rapidly escalating pollution priority.

Climate policy in Canada just got a lot more complicated

If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. When it’s a $70 billion data centre called “Wonder Valley” that will supposedly be built from scratch in the middle of the northern Alberta wilderness, one that will apparently feature swans and deer casually moseying around a futuristic-looking campus, that should set off some pretty noisy warning bells. And when the person pitching it is Kevin O’Leary? Well, red alert.

Canada’s draft Ocean Noise Strategy lacks the urgency, clarity and specificity needed to protect the Arctic’s soundscape.

Universal public health insurance has long been a point of pride in the country, a system often touted as fundamentally or uniquely Canadian. But our system is not uniquely Canadian, nor is it the envy of the world.

For the first time in a while, I am truly worried about the future of climate policy in our country.

Unless and until climate policy becomes economic policy, one that reduces costs rather than raising them, it’s unlikely that support for climate action will increase meaningfully. That means climate-concerned progressives have to embrace building — and reducing the obstacles that stand in the way of it — in a way they never have before.

Last month’s COP29 climate made progress toward finalizing Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, an overlooked provision that could be the key to meaningful greenhouse gas emissions' reductions.

There’s something strangely reassuring about the genre, even when it’s grim. Such insightful minds struggling with futures that are already arrived but largely invisible; baked in but beyond polite conversation.

Patricia Dijak is spending her retirement persuading local governments to design climate-adapted cities.

For all their talk about being fiscally prudent, Conservative politicians in Canada have more or less abandoned the idea of balancing the budget. 

Delegates applaud at COP29 in Azerbaijan,Nov 24, 2024. For all its constructive and helpful rhetoric on climate, we cannot ignore the fact that the Canadian government has shirked its responsibilities and undermined global climate action. From COP29 Azerbaijan X feed

The benefits of Canada joining the U.S. are endless. No more renting a P.O. box stateside to ship your Target orders and schlepping over the 49th parallel, trying to sort out which lane to take and making nervous chit chat with a border guard. Also, Trader Joe’s everywhere.

Now is the time for B.C. to solidify its role as a trailblazer in the fight against climate change.