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Only four premiers responded to National Observer's inquiries about Quebec's Bill 21 — a controversial new law that would prohibit any public service employee in a position of authority who deals with the public from wearing religious symbols like turbans, kippas, crosses and more.

A day after Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer accused the Liberals of plotting to levy a "secret fuel tax" on families, seniors and farmers, the Liberals volleyed back with allegations the Tories have nothing but smears to offer in place of a real climate-change plan.

The Ford government is challenging a landmark human rights order to renegotiate midwives' compensation to achieve pay equity with doctors.

A Ministry of Environment spokesperson said cap and trade was "a poorly designed, hastily implemented and poorly executed" system.

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.

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.

Five premiers donned cowboy duds and flipped pancakes at a Calgary Stampede breakfast hosted by Alberta's Jason Kenney.

The Liberals have quietly ended a much-touted "triage" program that aimed to redirect asylum seekers away from crowded shelters in Montreal and Toronto.

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."

Ontario's top court rules today, June 28, 2019, on the validity of the federal government's carbon charge.

Students worry that the Doug Ford government's cuts to student financial aid will have short-term impacts — increasing student drop-out rates — but also long-term impacts — more part-time students in post-secondary education who will work and study simultaneously. They worry that this will result in a crisis in student mental health. 

The key to our elections is not the relatively small number of voters tied to a single party but the much larger number of 'butterfly voters,' who are open to as many as three parties.

Dean French, widely seen as the driving force behind Doug Ford's rise to the leadership of Ontario's Progressive Conservative party and subsequent election victory, resigned as his chief of staff on Friday, the premier's office said. Ford overhauled his cabinet the previous day, demoting his finance, education and social service ministers after his first budget's cuts proved unpopular.

In one breath, the leader of the People's Party of Canada said "there is no climate change urgency in this country," promised to deliver "politics based on fact" and assured observers his party would deliver "a concrete environment plan."

The cabinet shuffle comes as the Ford government looks to reset after two months of bad polling for the Ontario Conservatives, a badly received budget that was full of cuts across industries and sectors, and three sets of boos directed at the premier (including one very loud one conducted by tens of thousands of people at the Toronto Raptors Championship parade on Monday).