Opinion

It's the place where it all started — Ground Zero if you will.

Chasing the memory of lumber-driving shantymen on mountain bikes in Ontario's Haliburton Highlands, a friend and I have been served plenty from the area's history department in our first two days.

On July 15, a state-of-the-art new pipeline near Fort McMurray, Alberta, ruptured, spilling five million litres of bitumen, sand and waste water over 16,000 square metres — one of the largest pipeline oil spills in Canadian history.

On a satellite photo, the quilt of farmland spanning the broad fin of southern Ontario ends abruptly at a line running from Georgian Bay eastward to the Ottawa River.

Leave firefighting decisions to the professionals (In response to a July 16 "letter to the editor," fighting the Boulder Creek fire let me say) the professionals at BC Wildfires use a fire ranking system to prioritize and deploy available resources t

On Whistler streets no one pays much attention to same-sex couples strolling about — whether they are travellers or residents — they are more than welcome here.

There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead," said Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich. "We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on.

Heading to the Pemberton Music Festival? Please, please bring your own water bottle (not glass) and enjoy the valley's fresh, clean water.

People who live and work in the Pacific Northwest are wont to declare it more than just a pretty place — they say it's special.

Time for climate change action Climate change is widely recognized as a contributing factor to this year's drought and alarming forest fires.