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Matt Humphrey — an Anglican priest, writer and educator who lives, works and plays on Songhees territory in the Cecilia Creek watershed (Victoria, B.C.) — mixes faith with environmental stewardship.
"Abandoning biofuels as a major climate action in the transportation sector, as must be done, raises the question of how to reduce GHG pollution," writes Victoria-based transportation planning consultant Eric Doherty.
Carbon pricing is the best way to support the technologies we need to solve the climate change problem, writes Michael Bernstein, executive director of Clean Prosperity.
The Canadian government launched a new program in 2020 to address the hundreds of journalism jobs being lost, the dozens of news organizations being shuttered and the obliteration of the old revenue model for journalism, Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood writes.
"I wonder if there is not a risk that people are tiring of the standard COVID-19 messaging. How do we encourage positive behaviour, even as the situation becomes more dire?" author and consultant Ingrid Stefanovic asks.
CEO and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood shares why she started Canada's National Observer, how independent media is vital to preserving democracy and what to expect from us in 2021.
Just as COVID-19 vaccination should strive for universal coverage and be guided by equity, governments should legislate paid sick days on the same basis, emergency physician Jesse McLaren writes.
For the sake of meeting the challenge of the climate emergency, we need to pay heed to the lessons of COVID-19 and apply them to climate policy, writes Andrea Reimer.
“No matter where you work, I respect you for putting food on the table. But I do have to say that my life has additional meaning now,” Nick Kendrick says.
