Arno Kopecky
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About Arno Kopecky
Arno Kopecky is an environmental journalist and author based in Vancouver. His most recent book is The Environmentalist's Dilemma.
‘Freedom Convoy’ protest ignited, Canada boiled over and Poilievre's Conservatives burnt their hands
Claims the 'Freedom Convoy' was a bunch of peaceful protesters exercising their right to free speech was hammered to dust by the Public Order Emergency Commission, writes Arno Kopecky.
Chronicle of a death foretold
Two narratives collided head-on late Wednesday night when the BC NDP disqualified Anjali Appadurai from the party’s leadership race. Arno Kopecky breaks down the aftermath of her ouster and what comes next.
Animal rights activists are escalating tactics to expose ‘systemic abuse’ in factory farms. Has it backfired?
A new wave of activism targeting factory farms is trying to narrow the gap between what’s legal and what’s ethical.
A Conservative climate conspiracy
Not all the plotters have been identified, but they’re known to include a handful of senior strategists, one former cabinet minister, and Jean Charest, the only leadership candidate with any hope of beating Pierre Poilievre, writes Arno Kopecky.
Can Canada's forests survive climate change?
Ten thousand years ago, when the last ice age gave way to the Holocene, a great migration was triggered in North America: trees began travelling northward, colonizing newly thawed landscapes at a pace of up to 500 metres a year. In a geoclimatic blink of an eye, trees colonized 38 per cent of the landmass now known as Canada, ultimately giving us nearly a 10th of all the forest in the world.