The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary act of all might be finding a community of like-minded people where you can talk about these issues and figure out what to do together.

What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if we try to pre-empt some of those disaster cleanups by actually investing in the shift now.