Greg Rickford

Cat Lake First Nation has won an injunction against a provincially approved winter road project that would lead to a proposed gold mine.

Cat Lake First Nation leadership is voicing their opposition to Queen’s Park over failing in their duty to consult, conduct proper environmental assessments and keep treaty obligations.

On a rock-covered beach in the heart of the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, Alex Moonias gazes east, then north. All he sees is undisturbed land, water and air.

Leaders of northern Ontario First Nations descended upon Queen's Park in Toronto on Wednesday to deliver a message to the province: they want to be equal partners on any kind of development in their territories.

Searches for unmarked graves at the site of a former northern Ontario residential school have uncovered 171 “plausible burials," the Wauzhushk Onigum Nation said on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, with other sites still to be investigated. 

The 53-page Critical Minerals Strategy lays out actions Ontario could take to “better connect mines in the north with the manufacturing sector in the south, in particular to Ontario-based electric vehicle (EV) and battery manufacturing” and “tap into new and growing markets.”

Ford’s energy minister was also shuffled in a massive changeup. Ford also brought back Rod Phillips, a former finance and environment minister who previously resigned from caucus taking a tropical vacation amid COVID-19.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said his government had felt the need to act on the issue.

The Ontario government has proposed repealing measures that made it easier to build new renewable energy projects. Critics say the changes would be a significant step backwards.

Ontario's Indigenous affairs minister said on Thursday, February 13, 2020, his federal counterpart must act quickly to resolve a rail blockade that has halted train traffic on a key provincial rail line for nearly a week.

Anti-carbon tax stickers will stay up on gas pumps as "a matter of transparency" while Ontario continues its court fight against the federal levy, the province's energy minister said on Monday, October 28, 2019.

Stickers are the new frontline of Canada's battle over carbon pricing. As the Doug Ford governments mandatory anti-carbon tax stickers go up on Ontario gas pumps Friday, a grassroots campaign is fighting back.

Buried in Ontario's budget bill are fines of up to $10,000 per day for gas station operators who don't display government-mandated stickers about the price of the carbon tax.

The Doug Ford government has appointed a former federal Tory cabinet minister, Joe Oliver, who denies human responsibility for climate change to the board of the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), a Crown corporation that oversees and manages the province's electricity operations.

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.