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I’ll start by letting you in on a little open secret: This year (and in past years) the only Canadian media outlet to send reporters to COP, aside from the CBC, was Canada’s National Observer.
Yusra Shafi is a 22-year-old immigrant from Kuwait. With KAIROS Canada, she helps empower women to build climate-resilient communities in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel/Palestine, and South Sudan.
For traditional and moderate conservatives, the merger of Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance and Peter MacKay's federal PC party to form the Conservative Party of Canada has been a tragedy.
At COP28, the fossil fuel industry promoted carbon capture and storage as a way to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In reality, the technology is growing at a snail’s pace compared to wind and solar energy.
The polls are starting to show a meaningful bounce in Liberal support — one that could portend a much better year for Justin Trudeau's government in 2024 than it had in 2023.
There's a growing conflict between ambitious climate action and retrograde investment treaties that indemnify foreign investors from government decisions that cut into their future profits.
At COP28, oil and gas companies and petrostates like Alberta made their pitch to have their climate cake and eat it too. Now that the conference is over and the world has agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, they're in for a rude awakening.
For the past few months, Canadians have been banned from sharing news articles on Facebook and Instagram, places where many people turned for information.
Finding middle ground between the oil and gas sector and climate activists may be the right chess move in politics, but the wrong moral move that gambles with our children’s future.
