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Jennifer Sygo: Are you ready to eat bugs? Get past the creep and crawl factor...
And now for something completely different. What if, instead of relying so much on traditional sources of animal protein, with their substantial impact on the environment, we switched our focus...
View ArticleIan Hunter: The sixth great extinction will be caused by us
Over the last 500 million years, scientists reckon that there have been five major mass extinctions — times when the diversity of life on Earth has suddenly and dramatically contracted. In her travels...
View ArticleRobert McLeman: Why this "greeny" supports pipelines
As a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., I teach introductory environmental studies to hundreds of students each year. I impress upon them the need to use less fossil fuels, to...
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Ezra Levant: 'Not one drop of poisoned water'
All the anti-fracking hype is designed to make you believe that the U.S. government has been asleep at the switch when it comes to monitoring environmental safety. The activists want you to believe...
View ArticleSamuel Levin: We can't afford to ignore climate change
According to his website, Bjorn Lomborg is all about getting the facts straight. Yet, in his recently published article on global warming and other problems the world faces, Lomborg provides inaccurate...
View ArticleGreenpeace's Nazca Lines stunt turns into bad PR for environmental crusaders
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: Greenpeace is so convinced of the rightness of its message, it tramples on other...
View ArticleAlex Epstein: Wrapping our minds around climate change
Growing up in Chevy Chase, Md., a suburb inside the Beltway of the D.C. metro area, I learned only one thing about fossil fuels in school for the first 18 years of my life: They were bad because they...
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Is a radioactive garbage dump the next GOP target after Keystone XL?
Next week, Republicans will finally be ready to send their Keystone XL bill to President Obama, who has promised to veto it on procedural grounds without a second thought. That won’t end the partisan...
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Obama vetoes Keystone XL bill, throwing pipeline’s fate back into regulatory...
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday vetoed legislation that would have forced approval of the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline and cut short the regulatory review. His veto...
View ArticleTasha Kheiriddin: On Keystone, the Conservatives made one fatal blunder
Between price drops and presidential vetoes, Canada’s oil-fuelled future is looking more and more like a mirage. The latest blow came on Wednesday, when U.S. President Barack Obama vetoed Congress’...
View ArticleNational Post View: Fracking the future
Last week’s move by the Obama administration to regulate “fracking” federally is cheap politics — but in a good way. Instead of obstructing the energy revolution to pander to his base, U.S. President...
View ArticleGlen Hodgson: Leave carbon pricing to the provinces
Today, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission is releasing a new report arguing that independent provincial carbon pricing is the practical way to move forward on reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. But...
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Just over half of Canadians believe humans causing climate change, while 15...
Almost eight out of 10 Canadians believe the earth’s climate is changing, but that belief has softened in recent months, according to a new poll from Forum Research. Tim Cole/AFP/Getty ImagesAn...
View ArticleNational Post View: Keep taxpayers off the hakapik
Ever since French actress Brigitte Bardot first cradled a whitecoat pup in 1977, Canada’s seal hunt has been struggling for survival. Animal rights activists successfully turned public opinion against...
View ArticleJohn Robson: China’s gloomy future
There’s been a steady stream of worrying news out of China as of late: aggressive economic and military action in disputed waters, lies about its gold reserves, a crackdown on human rights lawyers and...
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Denis ‘the drill’ Coderre lashes out at ‘cheap politics,’ and other reasons...
1. Edmonton mayor’s money rant may be only the start (Matthew Sherwood for National Post) Edmonton mayor Don Iveson, before he learned Calgary got more money than he did. This is what happens when you...
View ArticleChristine Van Geyn: Deciphering Ontario’s job-killing carbon tax
On Nov. 13, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Environment Minister Glen Murray circulated a discussion paper to industry and business groups outlining some of their proposals for a cap-and-trade...
View ArticleLetters: ‘Dig first, talk later’ is not a reasonable plan
Re: Controlling Our Economic Destiny, Peter Mackay, Feb. 22. It has become increasingly clear that controlling our economy is just as easy as controlling climate change, both of which are intrinsically...
View ArticleDavid Reevely: Patrick Brown tries to sell carbon pricing to conservatives
You know who liked the environment? Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the Ontario Progressive Conservatives are very keen to have you realize. Or, rather, they’re keen to have reluctant Progressive...
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‘There’s a new Canada rising’: Conservative leadership hopeful Michael Chong...
OTTAWA — Tory MP Michael Chong is hoping his compelling family story, plans for environmental and tax reforms, and desire to upend Ottawa’s political system will catapult him from underdog to the...
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