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The climate discussion requires Indigenous leadership — every single day
Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day — as good a time as any to reflect on the role that First Nations, Inuit and Métis people must have in shaping climate policy.
Smoke season is not normal. Stop pretending it is.
For me, living through wildfire smoke with young children — knowing it was preventable — feels like a kind of slow-motion moral injury.
Pierre Poilievre might be cooked
The Conservative Party of Canada will reportedly hold a leadership review next January. It's not at all clear that Pierre Poilievre will even make it that far.
Ford's nuclear obsession is robbing Ontario of its true clean energy future
Like his Alberta counterpart, Premier Danielle Smith, Ford seems almost pathologically opposed to solar and wind energy.
Mark Carney's dreamy summer of exuberance
Has anyone in Canada had a better month than Mark Carney? Just look at his Instagram feed: He’s hanging with Trump in the Oval Office, Zelensky at the Vatican, King Charles at Rideau Hall. Chilling with the Oilers.
Doug Ford is threatening environmental stewardship, democratic norms, and Indigenous rights
The Ford government's so-called "economic growth" law is a gross abuse of authority, threatening Ontario's biodiversity, Indigenous rights and democracy.
Up the creek without a paddle: protecting Canada's freshwater
The diverse, growing nature of the cumulative threats facing fresh water requires an equally diversified approach to tackling the problem.
Scouts plant trees to help conserve Canada's future
Kaelem Moniz is helping young people see the forest and plant trees. As special advisor to Scouts Canada’s national leadership team, this 20-year-old University of Toronto student donates his time to growing the scouting movement in Canada.
Danielle Smith's revealing 'living standards' slip
Danielle Smith blurted out that “we’ve got the lowest living standards in the world," in a clear case of misspeaking. But what did she really mean?
Carney shows his hand on infrastructure and trade bill
The procedural mystery behind the prime minister’s plan to rush his treasured legislation has been unveiled. Now it’s Parliament’s play.
Canada and Germany should double down on their energy partnership
The Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance is a focal point of the relationship between the two countries.
Canada’s Conservatives still aren’t serious about housing
Housing affordability remains an existential issue for millions of Canadians. So why do Conservative MPs like Jacob Mantle seem so determined to undermine potential solutions like modular housing?
If Carney wants to build, he should go big on a Youth Climate Corps
If the Liberals want to earn back the trust of young people, they must make a compelling and inspiring offer, and the Youth Climate Corps represents just that.
Carney, Eby and Ford should cool their deregulatory jets
If steps aren’t taken quickly to bring First Nations onside with major projects, Canada should prepare for a barrage of court injunctions and blockades with enormous power to slow industry and strain relations.