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Ethical investments can make a difference

Tim Nash is changing investment finance to support the continuation of life on Earth as the founder and president of Good Investing.
Opinion
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  • Patricia Lane
  • Tim Nash
  • Opinion
June 23rd 2025

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.
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  • Maria Shallard
  • Shianne McKay
  • Grace Donnelly
  • Opinion
June 21st 2025

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.
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  • Andrew Szava-Kovats
  • Opinion
June 20th 2025

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.
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  • Max Fawcett
  • Opinion
  • Politics
June 19th 2025

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.
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  • Adrienne Tanner
  • Opinion
June 19th 2025

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.
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  • Arno Kopecky
  • Opinion
June 18th 2025

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.
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  • Trevor Potts
  • Katherine Peel
  • Opinion
June 18th 2025

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.
Opinion
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  • Constance O'Connor
  • Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle
  • Opinion
June 17th 2025

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.
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  • Profile photo of Patricia Lane
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  • Patricia Lane
  • Kaelem Moniz
  • Opinion
  • Climate Solutions Reporting
June 16th 2025

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?
Opinion
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  • Chris Hatch
  • Opinion
June 16th 2025

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.
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  • Arno Kopecky
  • Opinion
  • Politics
June 13th 2025

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.
Opinion
By
  • Ian Rowlands
  • Sarah Burch
  • Juan Moreno-Cruz
  • Elisabeth Dütschke
  • Dirk Scheer
  • Daniel Sloot
  • Opinion
June 13th 2025

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?
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  • Max Fawcett
  • Opinion
  • Politics
June 12th 2025

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.
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By
  • Bushra Asghar
  • Erin Blondeau
  • Juan Vargas Alba
  • Lea Mary Movelle
  • Opinion
June 11th 2025

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.
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  • Adrienne Tanner
  • Opinion
June 10th 2025

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