Oil and gas is a very lucrative business, and very generous to Alberta and to Canada. Every year it favours us with many billions of…

For those of us who believe the world’s major problems are global and therefore require the global village to deal with them, the United Nations,…

Canada, the land of wide open spaces, of oceans, prairies, forests and mountains, is a wonderland of nature. But underneath all that natural glory lies…

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be a motherhood issue. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased from 280 to 420 parts per million in barely 60…

Pipeline madness has overtaken Alberta and threatens to infect the rest of the country. Despite gambling and losing $1.3 billion on the Keystone XL pipeline,…

Taxing carbon emissions is one of the most effective ways of dealing with the climate crisis. And also one of the fairest—the more you pollute,…

Now here’s an idea. The Earth Island Institute, an international environmental organization, has initiated a proposal for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. The idea is…

We are, of course, doing it to ourselves. Warming up the planet that is. To live is to burn fuel and human beings are burning…

The little island nation of Tuvalu, population 11,342, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has a problem. It’s disappearing into the sea. Climate change…

The very rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, are different from you and me. Of course they are. They spend a lot more, pollute a…

Alberta is the pollution province. Despite a population of less than a third of Ontario, it is responsible for 70 percent more greenhouse gas emissions.…

Conservatives love rhyming slogans. Alberta’s Conservative government has come up with a dandy in their latest fight with the feds: “scrap the cap.” The cap…