carbon pricing

The leader of the Alberta opposition United Conservative Party has vowed to repeal the province’s carbon pricing regime if elected to power in the 2019 election — a move backed by his party at a convention over the weekend.

Scrapping Ontario's cap-and-trade system would make no sense, the governor of California said on Monday, April 16, 2018, as he weighed in on a key Ontario election issue.

More than four in 10 Canadians surveyed about climate change last month said there is conclusive evidence climate change is real, that it is being caused by people and that they believe addressing the problem should be a top government priority.

No province has yet shown interest in signing on to the federal government's carbon pricing system instead of creating their own, potentially setting up a log jam for Ottawa to meet its deadline for every province to have a $20 a tonne price on pollution by Jan. 1.

Saskatchewan's newly-minted premier, Scott Moe, has taken his anti-carbon tax message straight to Ottawa. "Everyone will lose because of some flawed ideology," he told a conservative audience at the Manning Networking Conference on Friday.

“As the leader of our party I will not support a carbon tax," Ontario PC Party leadership candidate Caroline Mulroney told voters on Thursday.

"All Canadians can now expect to pay more for everything," says a Conservative party fundraising email. But is it true?

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is suggesting New Brunswick’s approach to carbon pricing won’t meet Ottawa’s requirements, but Premier Brian Gallant is defending his plan.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says a national price on carbon won't be imposed on any province for at least another year.

In October, the federal department was slammed for inaction on meeting Canada's 2020 greenhouse gas emissions targets. Today, it said the country has made "good progress" on implementing its first nationwide climate change plan.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provoked outrage as well as glowing praise when he first announced that the free ride for climate polluting industries would end. Today, as the deadline looms, the office of Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna says the government is ready to take action.

Is the framework correct in assuming we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and grow the economy? If not, which should be given precedence?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touched on the thorny issue of carbon pricing in a fundraising speech in Saskatoon on Thursday night.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lost the harshest critic of his plan to impose a carbon tax with Brad Wall's surprise announcement Thursday that he's retiring as Saskatchewan's premier.

Manitoba became the second province on Thursday, June 29, 2017, to raise the spectre of a court challenge against the federal government's carbon-pricing plan.