You don’t often hear the words “climate change” from Pierre Poilievre’s mouth, especially not without a sneer in his voice and a knowing, snarky eyebrow raised to the base. But it happened during his Conservative leadership victory speech — Poilievre announced he would “fight climate change with technology, not with taxes.”

Canadians escaped the worst of this summer’s climate impacts, touch wood, but alarm bells are ringing around the world.

South of the border, CNN’s meteorologist opened the Labour Day forecast declaring, “America is burning up.” California, in particular, has been roasting.

Vancouver city councillors voted this week to start filling a war chest to sue Big Oil for the climate damage its products are causing.

It’s part of a clever campaign that could easily be rolled out across the country. Sue Big Oil was launched just over a month ago…

We are not waiting for a new, cleaner world to be born. That world is already here, already among us, it’s just still … highly distributed.

That’s basically what I told the distraught congregant who cornered me at my mother’s church a few Sundays ago. A professional educator, she’s used to dealing with young people anguished about the climate crisis…

When two wind energy projects got quashed near her cousin’s home in New Brunswick, Louise Comeau decided to figure out what was going on.

Canadians overwhelmingly say they support wind, solar and clean energy in principle. Both projects were exactly the kind of thing needed to get off fossil fuels and onto clean electricity. The wind farm proposals seemed to have everything sorted.

It was the paper that launched a $40-trillion divestment movement. Ten years ago, Mark Campanale and his little team released “Unburnable Carbon,” a dense financial analysis showing that 80 per cent of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must never be burned.