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Vehicles stream past anti-carbon tax protesters who blocked a westbound lane of the Trans Canada highway near Cochrane, Alta., in April 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Rhetoric around ‘common sense’ tends to focus attention away from climate action, but it has not always been aligned with a free-market economy.
Jonathan Wilkinson, Steven Guilbeault, Joanne Thompson and Arielle Kayabaga arrive for a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on March 14, 2025. Kayabaga helped the government craft its new Africa Stategy.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Canada has taken an important first step towards a more strategic, intentional and mutually beneficial relationship with Africa. But it must provide more concrete plans for its implementation.
Young people canoe in Anishinaabe territory, in the Poisson Blanc Regional Park, in 2019.
(Mikayla Wujec)
Land-based learning that centres Indigenous perspectives is needed to face the climate-uncertain future and build a next generation of freshwater stewards.
United States Vice-President JD Vance addresses the audience at the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Feb. 14, 2025.
(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
American Vice-President JD Vance’s comments about Greta Thunberg’s ‘scolding’ points to a long history of people seeing scolding as one of the worst things we can do.
Emissions flow from a factory’s smokestacks on a cold winter day in Toronto in January 2025.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Despite the Canada Carbon Rebate’s effectiveness, Canada’s major political parties are willing to scrap it because it’s not politically rewarding.
Members of the Canadian Congress of Black Parliamentarians hold a press conference following their first summit in Ottawa on Aug. 11, 2023.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Through archival research and in-depth interviews, a new report documents the presence, backgrounds, motivations and experiences of Black Canadians in politics.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump after a group photo at a NATO leaders meeting in Watford, England in December 2019.
(AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Any unilateral termination of the North Atlantic Treaty by Donald Trump would likely end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, and would litigate the president’s power to reshape international world order.
Canadian jazz legend Oscar Peterson performs on the Stravinski hall stage during the 39th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, in 2005.
(AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
Peterson stands among the greatest virtuosi of musical history. He voiced stylistic grace, impeccable command of his instrument and the execution of spiritual freedom.
Retrofit programs focus on upgrades like air sealing, enhanced insulation, upgrading heating and cooling systems, and installing energy-efficient windows and doors.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Retrofit programs that improve home energy efficiency have become one of Canada’s main strategies to cut emissions in the housing sector. But do these programs deliver on their promises?
M23 rebels patrol in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 29, 2025. The rebel group announced it had taken control of the city in late January.
(AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in minerals.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairperson of the African Union, during a reception in his honour in Toronto in November 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eduardo Lima
Africa’s rise is unfolding now. Canada has the tools, the values and the economic imperative to form strong partnerships on the continent in the face of Donald Trump’s threats.
A keepsake held by a gloved hand at a fire-ravaged property in the aftermath of the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jan. 28, 2025.
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Usual approaches to addresing the climate crisis are not working, and as the world changes many are struggling to find a clear sense of place. Learning to love the world could help solve both issues.
A woman uses virtual reality glasses at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025.
(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Virtual reality’s ability to place audiences at the centre of stories has been shown to have positive effects on learning, information retention and the transfer of knowledge.
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a news conference in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
While Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks has strengthened its security and military dominance, the long-term consequences remain less clear.
‘Gone with the Macho’ print by Elio Rodriguez. Contemporary debates over slavery, race and racism continue to take place in a public sphere that has been shaped in part by cinematic films.
(Elio Rodriguez/532 Gallery)
Black points of view and voices have often been marginalized or overlooked in Hollywood. However, Cuban filmmakers have told stories to revalorize Black history and culture.
Ontario’s online gaming expansion may be fuelling a concerning increase in gambling issues.
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Since launching online gambling, the Ontario government, which gains significant tax revenue from gambling, has announced no funding for independent research to monitor the impact on problem gambling.
Journalists participate in a virtual tour on the Imperial Rome Virtual Reality Bus, where reconstructions of ancient architecture are superimposed on the windows of a tour bus, in Rome, in June 2022.
(AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
VR offers many opportunities for architects to design and communicate their work, and also for architectural learning and public consultation.
Canadian and American flags fly near the Ambassador Bridge at the Canada/USA border crossing in Windsor, Ont. in March 2020.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rob Gurdebeke
Canadians would never passively accept the loss of their national identity — any forced integration would be violently opposed and quickly devolve into a nightmare scenario for both nations.
Un Donald Trump tout sourire lors d’une conférence de presse avec le premier ministre Justin Trudeau en février 2017.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Le Canada en tant que 51ᵉ État condamnerait les républicains. Si Donald Trump ne comprend pas qu’il nargue ses alliés avec des menaces d’annexion, il pourrait au moins suivre son instinct électoral.
Donald Trump smiles during a joint news conference with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House early in Trump’s first term in February 2017.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Canada as the 51st state would doom the Republican Party. If Donald Trump cannot understand he’s taunting useful U.S. allies with annexation threats, he could at least follow his electoral instincts.
Professor, English and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture; Academic Director, Re.Climate: Centre for Climate Communication and Public Engagement, Carleton University