Opinion

The Conservative leader clearly thinks the byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot is going to be a cakewalk. His opponents have other ideas.

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.

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.

We need strong, enforceable heat protection regulations in every federal and provincial workplace.

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.

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 

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.”

Canadian universities have an excellent track record of creating and preserving knowledge, but a poor one for helping innovators to develop products and services.

By changing the way we produce protein, we can dramatically reduce our environmental impact, spare billions of animals, improve public health and nutrition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.