Equality, freedom and independence are words that inspired humanity's great social movements. Are there similar powerful words for today's environmental movement? Graham Saul interviewed 116 leading environmentalists and examines his findings here.

Many Quebecers worry that the newly-elected Quebec government's policies will affect social cohesion, paint immigrants as an unwanted and undesirable threat, and marginalize some people.

Americans now know exactly what kind of country they live in, and the reality is far worse than many would have imagined. Those steeped in knowledge of the past invoke the similarities to the rise of authoritarianism in Germany, Italy, Russia; those devoted to fictions of the future reference dystopias from novels...

At a cocktail party in Toronto last month, a fund manager challenged me with the following question: 'Do you believe in objective truth?' It got me thinking about the state of the fact in our crazy, mixed-up social media-driven world.