Adrienne Tanner

It might have been worth testing the ostriches and sparing the healthy animals simply to enhance public faith in the government’s willingness to listen

BC entrepreneur James Dean came out of retirement to start Oxygen8, a fast-growing provider of high-efficiency, zero-carbon building ventilation systems, just before Covid hit. His next challenge? Navigating the US trade war, a slowing economy and tighter rules on foreign workers.

Later this week, Toronto city council is scheduled to debate a staff report recommending new guidelines for fossil fuel industry advertising. The report, as written, is not as strong as it should be. With any luck, council will ask for more backbone.

The fact that oil companies are reluctant to invest in their own giant carbon reduction projects speaks volumes about how they view their longevity. If anyone understands the economics of peak oil, it’s them.

The Alberta Energy Regulator's approval of a coal mine exploration project has us creeping toward yet another fossil fuel development when we should be looking for less carbon polluting alternatives.

As some of the values we once shared with the US erode — respect for law, pride in an ethical military, concern for the environment and protection of free speech — we must push back against this spillover effect.

Poilievre promises his supporters an instant fix, a walk back in time all the way to the fifties, a decade of prosperity when middle-class home ownership was a given, drugs were not killing so many and we could burn hydrocarbons with impunity, blissfully ignorant of the consequences.

I’m under no illusion my picayune consumer vegetable protest will deliver the death blow to Trump’s trade war. That is the role of our government and its much bigger clout.

What Adam Kinzinger's talk really drove home is the fundamental difference between our two countries. Kinzinger strikes me as a decent man with a strong moral compass. But he’s American to the core and there is a vast difference between his views and the way most Canadians see the world.

Combine our own energy vulnerability with our economic reliance on fossil fuels and throw in a 25 per cent U.S. tariff threat, and what you get is the current national crisis.