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Employees verify packages bound for shipment at an Amazon fulfillment centre in Oxnard, Calif., in August 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Change management shows us how we all can become climate leaders

Navigating green differences between friends can be a tricky endeavour. These strategies can help you be a climate leader while keeping your friendships intact.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, centre, is swarmed by the media during a meeting of Canada’s premiers hosted by Ontario in Toronto on Dec. 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

How Canada and the country’s premiers must respond to Trump’s trade and energy policies

Canada should consider an export charge on Canadian energy bound for the U.S and applied directly by the federal government. That would impose some unity on Canada’s approach to Trump 2.0.
A poster depicting Luigi Mangione hangs outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel, in New York, Dec. 12, 2024. Mangione is accused of gunning down the CEO of UnitedHealthcare outside the hotel. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Luigi Mangione isn’t the first high‑profile alleged killer venerated by the public

The slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — and the support his accused killer has received on social media — is similar to previous U.S. manhunts, trials and criminal spectacles.
A package of Nestlé bottled water is shown in Oakville, Ont., in 2016. BlueTriton, a private equity consortium, purchased Nestlé’s North American bottled water business in 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Buchan

BlueTriton’s exit from Ontario shows the effectiveness of bottled water opposition movements

Opposition to bottled water has primarily focused on blocking plants and increasing access to tap water. The closure of Ontario’s largest bottled water plant shows that these efforts can succeed.
A vendor fills up his corn display at the Atwater Market on Sept. 18, 2024, in Montréal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Farmers’ markets are a vital but overlooked part of fixing Canada’s struggling food system

Farmers’ markets provide a host of benefits to both consumers and farmers, but are often overlooked when it comes to creating policies geared toward improving the sustainability of food systems.
A piece of the edge of Darwin’s Arch is visible in the ocean off of Darwin Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos in June 2024. A deep sea mining company plans to start operations in the Pacific Ocean in June 2025. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)

Deep seabed mining: Bad for biodiversity and terrible for the economy

Deep seabed mining is already controversial because of inherent environmental and biodiversity risks. A new study shows that its economic impacts may hit even harder.
Despite its widespread use and significant impact, influencer marketing is surrounded by uncertainty. (Shutterstock)

Influencer marketing doesn’t need more metrics — it needs more trust and collaboration between brands and influencers

Despite its widespread use and significant impact, influencer marketing is surrounded by uncertainties, ambiguities and controversies, both for practitioners and general public.
Donald Trump appears on ‘Fox & Friends’ in April 2017 with co-host Pete Hegseth, now his nominee for defence secretary, at the White House. A woman has accused Hegseth of sexually assaulting her a few months later. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

A Trump cabinet full of alleged sexual predators? Here’s why it makes perfect sense

The incoming U.S. president and his potential cabinet share a track record of sexual abuse allegations and cover-ups. The characteristics that accompany such behaviour don’t bode well for the world.
President-elect Donald Trump gestures after speaking during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s proposed tariffs against Canada and Mexico may be illegal, but that’s not the real problem

Amid Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat, Canada should be asking how a liberal-democratic nation survives next to a much more powerful country with no respect for the rule of law.