Doug Ford

Doug Ford’s Ontario government faces legal challenges on two fronts this week, with environmental groups wanting the cancellation of the province’s climate change strategy deemed illegal and the elementary teachers’ union and others targeting its regression to a 1998 sex-education curriculum.

“It would’ve been very different if I had been premier of Ontario,” Patrick Brown told National Observer in an interview. “I would have been a conservative partner with the federal government, trying to combat climate change.”

As the federal and provincial governments gear up for a tense legal and political battle over climate change, Ottawa announced that it has selected an Ontario company as the first recipient of funds under its climate plan. 

“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?”

Failing to prepare the workforce to meet the demands of the changing economy jeopardizes Ontario’s ability to be relevant in emerging clean industries,writes Liliana Camacho.

Facing mounting criticism, the Ontario government is hitting the pause button on its appointment of Premier Doug Ford's friend to the top job at province's police force.

Doug Ford's government has revoked existing funding for the College of Midwives of Ontario, as well as all future funding for the regulatory body that oversees over 900 midwives in the province and has received government support for 25 years.

Opposition politicians pounced on a call from Ontario’s interim top cop for an independent investigation into the executive hiring process at the force on Wednesday, as Premier Doug Ford ducked questions over his role in the appointment of a family friend as new commissioner.

Here are ten of the most compelling arguments and insinuations contained in the letter from Ontario's interim top cop to the province's ombudsman calling for an investigation into possible political interference in the process to replace him.

Ontario's fiscal watchdog says that to fulfil his promise to balance the budget, Premier Doug Ford would need to make deep spending cuts that could cost $850 per person.

Canada’s premiers and prime minister met under tense circumstances in Montreal Friday, and left a day of meetings without a shared agenda on energy or the environment.

Premiers arrived on Thursday, December 6, 2018, for a first ministers' meeting still grumbling about the agenda set by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with one — Ontario's Doug Ford — threatening to walk out if the program isn't expanded to reflect a host of provincial priorities.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he won't apologize for steps he took to "clean up the mess" at Hydro One despite a stunning assessment by a Washington state regulator that there was too much political interference to allow a merger with U.S. energy company Avista Corp.

Wrangling over the agenda doesn't bode well for Friday's, December 7, 2018, first ministers' meeting, which is shaping up as one of the most fractious gatherings of Canada's federal, provincial and territorial leaders in decades.

As the two party leaders intent on knocking Kathleen Wynne out of the premier’s office this year talked about their plans for Hydro One, utilities commissioners in Washington were watching and listening. And they were becoming increasingly concerned that a merger between Hydro One and Spokane-based Avista Corp. would always be at risk of political interference.