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Published by Observer Media Group. The opinions expressed on this page are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of National Observer's editorial board.

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Pierre Poilievre’s safe seat isn’t so safe after all

The Conservative leader clearly thinks the byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot is going to be a cakewalk. His opponents have other ideas.
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  • Max Fawcett
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July 17th 2025

Next-gen Sue Big Oil activists deserve more than political deflection

Why should a BC city of just over 100,000 help fund Sue Big Oil, a lawsuit against some of the world’s wealthiest corporations? The answer is simple: Cities incur huge costs because of climate change.
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  • Adrienne Tanner
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July 17th 2025

Building an abundant Canada beyond Bill 5

If we can imagine an abundant Canada, we can build it. But to do that, we need to build more of what we need — public infrastructure, greenhouses, renewable energy and transmission lines.
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  • Luke Hildebrand
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July 16th 2025

Extreme heat is a workplace hazard. We must treat it that way

We need strong, enforceable heat protection regulations in every federal and provincial workplace.
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  • Bea Bruske
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July 15th 2025

Republicans complain about smoke. But they voted for fire

It had to be a joke, right? A group of MAGA lawmakers moaning about “suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke” in a complaint fired off to Canada’s ambassador to the US. Someone at The Beaverton or Walking Eagle News must have been feeling especially snarky. But, no. Turns out that six of Trump’s besties in Congress spent their July 4 weekend coordinating grievances and writing up a joint letter of protest, demanding action from the Canadian government.
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  • Chris Hatch
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July 14th 2025

A French podcast brings climate conversations to young listeners

Sasha Emery brings climate conversations to young francophones. This 22-year-old from Yukon and her Franco-Manitoban friend, Anne-Sophie Règnier, produce the Conversations Climatiques podcast. Sasha represented youth on the Yukon government’s Youth Panel on Climate Change 
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  • Sasha Emery
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July 14th 2025

Is Suzuki right that it's 'too late'? We are in an era of simultaneous wins and losses

All of us who work on climate have long walked a razor’s edge between hope and despair, and the last few months (or years) have made it near impossible to keep one’s balance. But I would put the current predicament differently than saying it’s “too late.”
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  • Seth Klein
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July 11th 2025

Canadian universities must do a better job encouraging private sector research

Canadian universities have an excellent track record of creating and preserving knowledge, but a poor one for helping innovators to develop products and services.
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  • Richard Gold
  • Evan Henry
  • Marc Fortin
  • Martin Bader
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July 11th 2025

To secure its food future, Canada must invest in sustainable protein production

By changing the way we produce protein, we can dramatically reduce our environmental impact, spare billions of animals, improve public health and nutrition.
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  • Riana Topan
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July 10th 2025

Alberta will never double its oil production 

Both Danielle Smith and the separatists she keeps enabling want to see Alberta double its oil production. Spoiler: It won't be Mark Carney or the Liberal government that ends up stopping them.
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  • Max Fawcett
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  • Politics
July 10th 2025

Ontario and Alberta collude to put profits ahead of Indigenous clean water rights

Collusion by the two provinces to advance their economic projects at the expense of the First Nations Clean Water Act, a bill so close to the heart of Indigenous people, is a disrespectful slap in the face to their prospective partners.
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  • Adrienne Tanner
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July 9th 2025

There's always money for the military. But climate?

For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail. And yet, Canada’s military spending will hit two per cent of GDP this year, and will reach a stratospheric five per cent within 10 years.
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  • Seth Klein
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July 9th 2025

Feds should rethink campaign promise of $13 billion in “savings”

In Mark Carney's election platform, the Liberals needed an easy way to pay for their pricey tax cuts and defence spending. They settled on vague operational cuts with no plan for meeting their target without massive job losses and service cuts.
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  • David Macdonald
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July 8th 2025

Halfway to 2050, and far from where we need to be

This halfway point to 2050 offers a stark reckoning. We've burned through a quarter century in what feels like a blink. Now, we’re left with the same span in which we had vowed to accomplish what may be the most dramatic economic and social transformation in human history. Twenty-five years to rewire our energy systems, reimagine our cities, and restructure our relationship with the planet.
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  • Chris Hatch
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July 7th 2025

How to craft laws that protect the most vulnerable to climate change

Jessica Kai Paisley is helping craft international laws that lift up the voices of women and others whose vulnerability is multiplied in the presence of climate impacts. This 27-year-old legal scholar from Vancouver was a researcher and delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. 
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  • Patricia Lane
  • Jessica Kai Paisley
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July 7th 2025

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