As climate alarms ring more loudly, the government shuts out the noise

The latest warnings are not of bad weather, increased heat domes, and fires, but rather of global catastrophe.

Scientists around the world have been carefully monitoring evidence of the slow down of the great conveyor belt of ocean currents, which for years was seen as a low-risk event. Recent updates have changed the consensus view, writes Elizabeth May.Pexels photograph by Vanessa Valkhof

Opinion

BY ELIZABETH MAY

May 6, 2026

There was a time when the Green Party was one in a crowd of parties calling for climate action. No longer. The Liberals have reversed their boldest programs: the consumer carbon tax, the oil and gas emissions cap, the home energy retrofit funding, and the list goes on.

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