Fatima Syed
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News, Energy, Politics
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June 29th 2018
Ontario’s new finance minister Vic Fedeli says he believes that withdrawing the province from the cap-and-trade carbon market signals that Ontario is open for business.
Ontario has a new environment minister with a background in gambling, an energy minister who has taken on Indigenous affairs and no one in cabinet whose main job will be tackling immigration.
Doug Ford is now the premier of Ontario, putting an end to 15 years of Liberal rule in Canada's most populous province, with a brand new 21-member cabinet.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she expects to have some "interesting conversations" with Ontario Premier-designate Doug Ford about climate change policies.
Jean Swanson, anti-poverty activist and member of the Order of Canada, was arrested at the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion site on the eve of Canada Day.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will promote a high-ranking public servant who helped oversee consultations with First Nations prior to the government's 2016 approval of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
Increased shipping could make parts of the Northwest Passage among the most dangerous places in the Arctic for the whales and other mammals that live there, a study suggests.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he does not remember any "negative interactions" during an event he attended 18 years ago in British Columbia — acknowledging for the first time allegations of sexual misconduct that recently resurfaced about him at the event.
