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This isn’t about banning plastic, which will remain a useful part of our lives, writes federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. It’s about responsibly managing plastic so it stops polluting our environment.
In the Second World War, young Canadians deferred their studies and delayed careers to enlist. Today, a new generation of young people needs a way to meet the climate emergency, writes columnist Seth Klein.
As a filmmaker, Ali Kazimi first heard about the Sinixt story in 1993 when Robert Watt, a Sinixt man, was appointed caretaker of an ancient village site, thousands of years old, in Vallican.
Why former Green Party leader Elizabeth May is calling on the Liberals and the NDP to deliver a climate change accountability bill that meets the demands of science — and our kids.
RCMP are wrong to silence media coverage of the Fairy Creek blockades trying to protect B.C.'s old-growth trees from logging, writes freelance writer and climate justice organizer Maia Wikler.
If people don’t see themselves in green spaces, they will not come. Nor will they come if they don’t feel safe, write researchers Ambika Tenneti and Jacqueline L. Scott.
Like so many Americans, Jake Tapper’s “love” of Canada reflects the combination of indifference and ignorance that has always characterized their cross-border relationship with us, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Canada’s three-year phaseout of the toxic insecticide chlorpyrifos risks ongoing harms, as well as dumping of this product on our market, write Meg Sears and Mary Lou McDonald.
