Greg Rickford

Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government said on Thursday it will reform Ontario's electricity system in a bid to reduce costs overall and lower rates for businesses, a move critics say limits the most efficient way to save money in the power grid and threatens thousands of clean energy jobs.

The Ontario government is slashing a series of programs that were designed to help save energy in buildings. It's all part of a plan that Premier Doug Ford's government claims would help “businesses improve their bottom line,” says a leaked provincial document.

The Ford government’s policies, ostensibly made to save taxpayers money, have in fact opened the door to federal policies that would raise the cost of natural gas used to heat the province’s homes and business and cook its food.

On Friday, the leadership of Ontario's Cat Lake First Nation were at Queen's Park urging Premier Doug Ford and his government to step in and do what the federal government has failed to: provide emergency housing, medical assistance and fire teams. 

Leaders of six First Nations are urging the Ontario government to "clean up" the bureaucratic process that determines who will build an "urgently needed" high-capacity power transmission line to service northern Ontario.

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.

The Ontario government tabled legislation to repeal the province's Green Energy Act on Thursday, claiming the nine-year-old law has allowed the province to "trample" municipal rights to choose local energy projects for too long.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is musing about breaking a key campaign promise geared at the province's cottage country in the last election. And he's blaming ex-premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government for his apparent waffling.

The act that will regulate Hydro One compensation has been proclaimed, Premier Doug Ford said on Wednesday, one that will regulate board compensation and require cabinet approval for any changes.

The Ontario government says it's committed to clean and safe drinking water for Northern Ontario First Nations, but that the federal government should “step up to ensure this.”

Renewable energy builders and buyers won't sit idly while a senior member of the Ontario government calls their projects "unnecessary and wasteful."

The sweeping cuts to "unnecessary and wasteful energy projects" are part of the Ontario government's plan to cut hydro rates by 12 per cent, said Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines Greg Rickford on Friday afternoon.

Angered by the lack of safe drinking water and Energy East, Indigenous voters could snatch victory from away from the incumbent Conservative in this former Liberal stronghold.