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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is riding high in the polls, but roughly half the public say they are fearful about the prospect of a Poilievre government. More than half of Canadians suspect he has a “hidden agenda.” But there's no need for detective work — what he trumpets out loud is sinister enough. Those public opinion stats come from the...
“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” Often attributed to Kurt Vonnegut, sometimes to Donella Meadows, it’s one of those quotes that’s so good, it seems to have multiple claims of ancestry. Wherever it came from and however accurately it may have described the blinkered bookkeepers, Akshat Rathi wants you...
You hear a lot of debate among climate advocates about the roles of fear and hope. But sometimes it just feels like we’ve been transported into the theatre of the absurd. In a province where farmers, ranchers and other landowners cannot refuse oil and gas drilling, the Alberta government has announced sweeping restrictions on renewable energy. After freezing approvals in...
The fires of public opinion might be smouldering like the zombie fires seething underground, according to some tantalizing new research. It takes a real act of will to recall that time, not so very long ago, when politicians were rushing to the front of the parade, eager to align with the millions of climate marchers converging on city centres around...
Mother Nature’s Icelandic lava show has been an impressive reminder that we are surrounded in every direction by awesome amounts of energy. Photons shower down, water cascades, wind blows while waves pulse and tides flow. And the Earth beneath our feet stores heat from the sun’s rays above while generating its own from dark sources below.