Stewart Elgie

Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest is promising to repeal the Liberal government's consumer carbon price and eliminate the federal portion of the HST on low-carbon purchases.

The value of carbon-price rebate cheques from the federal government will jump more than 66 per cent in Ontario and Manitoba this year, to make up for too-small rebates the last two years.

It's make-it-or-break-it time for the federal government's national price on pollution.

In a courtroom in British Columbia on Monday, December 17, 2019, Indigenous communities were arguing the federal government overstepped in approving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and that it has to be stopped over concerns about its impact on the environment.

Canada's largest business group has endorsed a carbon tax as the most efficient way for the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

On the eve of a national showdown over a Canada-wide carbon tax, more than two dozen business and environmental leaders have offered ammunition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.