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Grief itself is a well-known, well studied human emotion and there is much we have learned from the death and dying process of individuals that can help us navigate this larger ecological grief.
While we worry about Russian meddling, a transnational extreme right movement operates online with the goal of influencing mainstream political debate.
A closer look at the most recent chapter in U.S. President Donald Trump’s playbook reveals just how much his politics could have lasting impacts here in Canada.
For the first time in the history of Quebec, the provincial government has no senior ministers and only two elected representatives from the island of Montreal. Will Dubitsky examines divisions emerging over proposals by the Coalition Avenir Québec government, notably a law banning certain public officials from wearing religious symbols.
Amid all the talk of data sharing and citizen empowerment at a global summit in Ottawa, there was no mention that Canada is home to one of the most opaque, secretive rule-making bodies in the world: the International Civil Aviation Authority.
Taken as a whole, this project would thus further alter the terrestrial and marine ecosystems on which life on Earth depends, even as UN-mandated experts have recently confirmed an "unprecedented" and accelerating rate of extinction of species, thus eroding "the very foundations of our economies, our livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life around the world."
Clearcutting B.C.’s spectacular, globally rare old-growth forests was never a smart idea. Destroying the last of them in the midst of a climate and biodiversity emergency is extreme.
