Opinion

If we accept reality and stop talking about pipeline delusions to re-create an oilsands boom, then we can talk about opportunities that might exist long-term for this resource

Bill Darnell has been helping protect what we love since he helped found Greenpeace in 1970. He recalls the meetings always ended with one member, Irving Stone, making the peace sign and saying “peace.” I suggested we make it a green peace, and “Greenpeace” was born! 

There is possibly no single body worse suited to deciding who is and is not a journalist than the RCMP. I would trust nine strangers at a bar to know what a journalist does, and why, before I trusted the RCMP with its long track record of interfering with us.

The best that can be said about the Liberal leadership debates is that climate action was on the agenda.

Because politics is politics, as cynical as predictable, each party and leader will claim victory after last night, but this was an election that everybody lost, not least of whom include the people of Ontario.

What horrifies so many Canadians, and what the CBC leadership fails to appreciate from its embattled perch, is the urgency of this historic moment.

We should learn from the history of a post-war pipeline project that at one point seemed vital then was quickly abandoned, and cleaned up extremely slowly.

By modifying the federal disaster to also focus on pre-disaster prevention, the new program will foster a culture of proactive preparedness.

I’m under no illusion my picayune consumer vegetable protest will deliver the death blow to Trump’s trade war. That is the role of our government and its much bigger clout.

Saying no to LNG and locking it out of current and future zero-emission pathways for the marine shipping sector is crucial to avoiding runaway climate impacts and tax payer boondoggles.

As Trump uses fossil fuel markets as an instrument of aggression and coercion against Canada, we must learn from the EU and quickly reduce our dependence on fossil fuel markets.

There are new debates over Carney’s approach. But once again, you can’t help but notice that he’s the one person up there making a positive case for climate action.

Putting up thousands of wind turbines and hundreds of solar farms, means more jobs, less global warming and less reliance on the boom and bust oil and gas sector that handcuffs us to the U.S.

Check the social media accounts of any prominent convoy participant, whether it’s Tamara Lich, Pat King, or their dedicated transcriptionists in the alt-press, and their sympathy for Donald Trump and antipathy towards Canada becomes immediately apparent.

It’s hard to look at any party or leader and expect they’ll solve Ontario’s debilitating structural problems. It’s even harder to imagine any leader being worse than Ford