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The Saskatchewan government has introduced its own climate change law as its feud with Ottawa over a carbon tax continues to play out in the courts.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe flew into Toronto on Monday for a whirlwind visit with his Ontario counterpart, Doug Ford, as the pair took turns spreading misleading information about the federal government's plan to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions.

The federal government will take some of the sting out of its upcoming carbon tax on Tuesday, October 23, 2018, with a promise to give rebates directly to Canadians.

Twelve months from now, Canadians will pass judgment on the Trudeau government and decide whether its first mandate should be its last or if it deserves another four years.

Chris McDermott, one of Canada's early climate change negotiators, says it's time to ask: At what point do we decide that a carbon tax is too politically toxic to pursue further and start talking about alternatives?

Manitoba's Opposition New Democrats want the provincial government to revive its plan to bring in a carbon tax.

Brian Pallister's abrupt about-face on a carbon tax came after the Manitoba premier felt like he was being used as a prop by Ottawa, and sources say it was a surprise to most in his own caucus.

A raucous crowd of more than 1,500 crammed into a Calgary convention centre on Friday, October 5, 2018, night to hear Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Jason Kenney, leader of Alberta's Opposition United Conservative Party, rail against the federal carbon tax.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians gave his government a mandate in the last election to implement a national carbon price and that is exactly what it is going to do.

Carbon taxes and pricing schemes could be our golden ticket out of climate change, but a new report shows just how far we have to go to put an effective price on carbon.

The Manitoba government says it is pulling out of its plan to charge a carbon tax and is joining some other provinces opposed to the federal government's demands. Premier Brian Pallister says Ottawa has not respected the province's right to come up with its own plan with a lower rate.

Alberta's United Conservative Party has invited Ontario Premier Doug Ford to Calgary for a "Scrap The Carbon Tax Rally."

The Saskatchewan government approved a large-scale wind energy project Thursday for the province's southwest as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Justin Trudeau is standing firm on his government's commitment to build the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and to its national climate-change plan — both of which were put in jeopardy by a bombshell court ruling that overturned federal approval for the project.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is musing about breaking a key campaign promise geared at the province's cottage country in the last election. And he's blaming ex-premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government for his apparent waffling.