Canada makes scientific case for Arctic ownership

A year after Russia’s controversial flag-planting dive to the North Pole seabed to assert ownership of a sprawling underwater mountain chain, Canada is launching a less brazen but potentially more…

Carbon tax gaining support: poll

Canadians are warming up to the prospect of paying an environmental tax on activities that cause climate change, but they don’t necessarily expect to get the money back in the form of income tax…

Why incinerators are the expensive wrong option for garbage in Canada

By Helen Spiegelman

The Globe's John Barber wrote a scathing Op-Ed on May 23 about convoluted logic that convinced politicians in the Durham region of Ontario that it was a "prudent"

Doing good while living well

Good intentions: A new trend in travel has tourists lending a helping hand. Is it altruism or just an exotic version of ‘slumming it’?