carbon tax

Ottawa is pushing back against Saskatchewan's request to have the Supreme Court of Canada delay hearing its challenge of the federal carbon tax.

In an argument put forward to scrap the clean fuel standard, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer claimed it was ‘a secret fuel tax’ that would increase the cost of gas by four cents.

When fires cause your community to have to evacuate, climate change ceases to be an abstract political issue and instead becomes something personal.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged on Thursday, July 11, 2019, that he has more work to do to sell Canadians on further actions to fight climate change, pointing to new premiers elected on vows to fight his government's agenda.

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.

A UBC professor objects to Sandy Garossino's recent column, in which she argues the Trans Mountain expansion is integral to the Liberals' climate strategy.

After months of taking to the streets to demand pipeline project approvals and rallying last month to call for lower property tax increases, Calgary's business community is looking forward to heading outside for pancakes and parties as the Calgary Stampede kicks off this week.

The federal government is increasing the carbon tax on new natural-gas plants to discourage power companies from building them.

The 93-page Ontario Court of Appeal decision found that provinces alone could not reduce emissions as fast as the climate crisis required: “Without a collective national response, all they can do is prepare for the worst."

What began as a friendly rivalry between two southern Alberta towns has ended with what may be one of the most extensive programs of solar power anywhere in the country.

Many Ontarians received an automated text message over the weekend, asking if they agree that the carbon tax must be scrapped.

Despite billions of dollars in new spending over the last four years, the federal Liberals' social-development minister concedes that seniors and families seeking housing and child care are still facing serious cost crunches.

Alberta's justice minister says the province is asking for a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the federal government imposing its carbon tax.

Quebec and Alberta are natural allies in the fight to defend provincial autonomy in the face of federal interventions, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, during a visit to the province.

Budget cuts by the Ontario government may bring an end to the use of legal aid support to help vulnerable people fight the global climate change emergency. Doug Ford's government triggered the cuts in its first provincial budget last April as it slashed funding to Legal Aid Ontario by 30 per cent.