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 planer 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…

I believe in free markets, at least for most commerce. As do most Albertans. Partly because they believe a free market in oil made them…

In a recent article, New York Times opinion writer David Wallace-Wells poses the question “What Happens if China Stops Trying to Save the World?” Wallace-Wells…

You read that right. Alberta has phased out a fossil fuel. Not, unfortunately the tar sands. That would be way too much to hope for,…