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Unlike the usual shenanigans in party leadership races, where membership rolls are sometimes padded with fake identities and nonexistent entities, the people who joined the NDP to vote for a climate justice champion are entirely real.
Our increased dependence on the U.S., our smaller relative weight in a globalized world, and our general disinterest and lack of investment in international affairs all leave Canada unequipped to play the role of a middle power.
The hard work of Canada's medical professionals to battle COVID-19 has been undermined by a small army of right-wing pundits, politicians, and pandemic opportunists who have depleted our stores of social capital.
Improving energy efficiency for low-income households needs urgent attention because they are excluded from federal policy, write Brendan Haley and Abhilash Kantamneni of Efficiency Canada.
With official Ottawa now engrossed in an inquiry into the Emergencies Act, it’s a good time to remember that vaccines and other COVID measures saved thousands of lives.
Premier Danielle Smith's entire electoral strategy revolves around ignoring Calgary and Edmonton, where most Albertans live, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Cities need a youthful infrastructure that includes affordability, good jobs, safety, mobility, a net-zero focus, physical and mental health, and fun with entertainment, music and green space based on metrics young people devise.
Patricia Lane talks to the Montreal-based founder of Arrêtons GNL, a coalition of most student unions in Quebec, about plans to make his movement Canada-wide.
For all of its noisy talk about oil and gas, the Alberta government has been curiously quiet about the success of its solar energy industry, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
