Dianne Saxe

As the Ontario government finds itself knee-deep in gas controversies, the City of Toronto is considering ending fossil fuel subsidies worth up to $200 million annually.

Members of Ontario's Public Service Pension Plan want clarity on how one of the province’s largest pension fund managers is actually implementing its climate commitments.

John Tory will stay on as Toronto's mayor to see his budget get debated at city council, his office said on Monday, February 13, 2023, despite his announcement last week that he planned to resign following an affair with a former staffer.

Ontario's Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford has rebranded himself as a big-spending man of the people in the lead-up to the June 2 election.

Dianne Saxe and the hundreds of mostly young Green Party of Ontario volunteers working on her campaign are hoping to add to the party's lone seat at Queen's Park, with a focus on Toronto’s student-rich University-Rosedale riding.

Dianne Saxe was the Ontario environmental commissioner from 2015 until 2019, when the Ford government eliminated her position. On Friday, Canada's National Observer reported that Saxe would run for the Greens in 2022.

Dianne Saxe held the non-partisan watchdog role from 2015 to 2019, when the Ford government eliminated her position. She was often critical of the province's weakening of environmental policy. "I feel truly horrified by the unrelenting attacks by the Ford government on our natural environment, on the institutions that protect it," she told Canada's National Observer.

Sales of electric vehicles in Ontario have plummeted since the Progressive Conservative government cancelled a rebate last year, hampering progress toward a national target.

Given the climate emergency, can Canadians overcome the political obstacles to dramatically reducing their dependence on fossil fuels? Former environmental commissioner Dianne Saxe provides a roadmap.

But the question of how to fix it has revived a longstanding debate over what cutting red tape means for the environment

Ontario's Auditor General named the environmental policy and law expert as commissioner of the environment within her office, which has absorbed the province's independent environmental watchdog’s office after the Doug Ford government shuttered it.

Seeking to re-frame climate policy as a matter of economic justice, not just emissions targets, the party came out of its recent convention with an aggressive policy position that's likely to influence federal Leader Jagmeet Singh in the coming election.

The Ontario government is increasing energy bills, air pollution, health impacts and greenhouse gas commissions through policies that promote the use of fossil fuels, says the province's environmental commissioner, Dianne Saxe, in her final report released on March 27, 2019.

“I’m outraged and heartbroken,” Dianne Saxe, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, said in an interview. “What a way to mark the 25th anniversary of the Environmental Bill of Rights, but to silence the commissioner and restrict the rights of the public. The government is saying to people, you can can trust us. They say they're going to police themselves. Now, when has that ever worked?”

Ontario's environmental watchdog warns the government "needs to walk the walk" to protect the province's biodiversity, control invasive species, and enact better forest fire management.