Climate change should be the big story of 2026

Fossil-fuel production and use must be reduced by half by 2030. And with fear and fatigue—and in an increasingly insecure world—nobody even wants to think about this sword over our heads, and what we owe our future generations. Economic actors were already backing away before Donald Trump’s corrupt negligence.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin, pictured on Dec. 1, 2025, at the House Environment Committee, has a low profile in the Carney government. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

February 16, 2026

GIBSONS, B.C.—“We are currently living through a paradigm shift in the speed, scale, and severity of risks driven by the climate-nature crisis. Yet many regulations and government actions are dangerously out of touch with reality," said

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