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The student climate strike on March 15 made it clear that young people have had enough. They are no longer waiting for others to secure our future. Students took to the streets on that day because we have big problems to solve and what we’re doing right now isn’t working. It’s time to be bold and innovative. It’s time to try something new.
Albertans have a clear choice to make in next month's election between keeping with policy that is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and scrapping many of them, writes James Glave.
Canadians never learned the lessons that we should have following the 2011 Norway massacre. There was no understanding from among politicians or media that the buzzwords that drove Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Breivik were driving Canadian extremists as well.
White-supremacist terrorism is every bit the ideological twin to ISIS jihadist terrorism. It can radicalize and inspire the same kind of narrow-minded hate, death and destruction – perhaps even more so, because it continues to benefit from the denial of people who refuse to see it as the global threat that it is.
On the eighth anniversary of the start of Syria's civil war, the UN Refugee Agency's Jean-Nicolas Beuze worries if we are dedicating enough attention or resources to helping Syrians.
There is a sense of a diagnosis being made, en masse. The children of the world have shunned the system created by adults.... They are looking into each other’s eyes, confirming that climate change is an existential threat to their health and well-being, and that their elders have failed to protect them.
In the years to come, our children and grandchildren will ask us how our generation’s leaders could be so short-sighted, so selfish, as to spout the rhetoric of climate leadership, reconciliation, and even economic prosperity to the public, knowing full well that they were condemning future generations to a planet with crumbling life support systems.
We have entered an era in which children and young people are standing up and stating truths that many of their adult contemporaries either ignore or flatly deny.
