Doug Ford

The Ontario court hearing a climate lawsuit filed by seven youth against the provincial government has granted intervenor status to six groups, meaning Indigenous voices and those of environmental groups and parents will also be heard in court starting in September.

Canada’s National Observer spoke to Greenberg about Ontario’s current “tall and sprawl” approach to housing development and what it takes to build affordable, climate-friendly, livable communities.

At a time when the public’s engagement with our democratic process is at a dangerously low ebb, mandatory voting can help restore faith in our political institutions and system, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Relatives, community members and dignitaries called for an end to racism and Islamophobia on Sunday, June 5, 2022, during an emotional tribute marking the one-year anniversary of a deadly attack on a Muslim family in London, Ont.

The seven-seat increase from the 2018 election issues Ford a resounding stamp of approval from voters after an often-embattled first term that saw his government, in the words of a Greenpeace spokesperson, “taking a sledgehammer to Ontario climate policies.”

To be fair to both Del Duca and Horwath, however, Ford was always going to be hard to beat.

Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives sailed to a second majority government Thursday.

A recent survey commissioned by voter mobilization group Future Majority found young Ontario voters are concerned about affordable housing, mental health and climate change.

Ontario seems to have forgotten who Doug Ford was going into the pandemic, writes columnist Max Fawcett. That collective amnesia could propel him to election victory.

The Ring of Fire, about 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, is home to a 5,000-square-kilometre mineral deposit. The province’s plans include a $1-billion investment to build roads to access those deposits, but the project has been up in the air for years.

As Ontario's electoral candidates float plans to reduce cost at the tills, food banks and food security experts say their food-focused approach is distracting from the main problem: Poverty and incomes.

Electric vehicles lose their impact if they're powered by fossil fuels, say critics, but only three political leaders in Ontario have committed to phasing out gas-fired electricity generation.

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.

An airplane hangar is a very large place, one that is difficult to fill with people, and even more difficult to have appear full with only a couple hundred of them. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford closed out Thursday with a rally “to get it done” at a CargoJet hangar that abuts the airport in Hamilton, a traditionally labour-minded town and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath’s home turf.

Canada isn’t in any danger of embracing Hungarian-style fascism, but the manipulation of the media could easily serve as an inspiration for our conservatives, writes columnist Max Fawcett.