Cap and trade

Seven Ontario youths and their legal allies vow to continue their court battles against Doug Ford's government, arguing their right to a livable future and a safe planet is at stake.

The proposed changes to the Environment Act would create a pricing system based on greenhouse gas output, Environment Minister Tim Halman told reporters, adding that the new plan would also include targets and performance standards to be set out in regulations.

Ontario’s “extremely worrisome” recent track record on climate has cost the province nearly $10.5 billion in lost revenues, legal fees and compensation for cancelled contracts, according to a new report.

The United States government is suing California for signing an emissions-reduction agreement with Quebec, saying the deal amounts to foreign policy that the state had no right to conduct.

A Ministry of Environment spokesperson said cap and trade was "a poorly designed, hastily implemented and poorly executed" system.

A government source assembled a full list of the cancelled projects and shared it exclusively with National Observer. The leaked list reveals a wide range of initiatives set to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that lost their funding, including schools, hospitals, small businesses and several social housing providers.

Manitoba New Democrats are promising to put a price on carbon if they win the next election, even if the federal carbon tax were to be scrapped.

From Kenora to Oxford to Ottawa and Toronto, members of the Progressive Conservative provincial government of Doug Ford posted photographs of themselves at gas stations warning drivers to fill up their tanks before a carbon tax kicks in. They failed to recognize federal rebates to taxpayers.

Doug Ford’s Ontario government faces legal challenges on two fronts this week, with environmental groups wanting the cancellation of the province’s climate change strategy deemed illegal and the elementary teachers’ union and others targeting its regression to a 1998 sex-education curriculum.

Ontario's fiscal watchdog says that to fulfil his promise to balance the budget, Premier Doug Ford would need to make deep spending cuts that could cost $850 per person.

Rod Phillips and Catherine McKenna have met only once. That was in July after he was sworn in as minister. Since then they have sparred on Twitter and through the media about climate policies.

The Ontario government fulfilled a central campaign promise Wednesday as it passed legislation to repeal the province’s price on carbon pollution. But in doing so, ministers were still unable to articulate a science-based explanation for their decision.

As Ontario municipalities head to the elections on Monday, we asked Toronto candidates if they had a plan to fight climate change.

Premier Doug Ford’s reversal of Ontario’s climate action policies will balloon the deficit by $3 billion, says the province's financial watchdog.