Ontario

Wage growth accelerated last month to its fastest clip in more than decade, according to numbers released on Friday, August 9, 2019, from Statistics Canada.

Ottawa is going around the Manitoba government in order to give $5.4 million in carbon tax revenues to the province's schools in the latest carbon-tax battle between the federal Liberals and a provincial Conservative government.

Ottawa is pushing back against Saskatchewan's request to have the Supreme Court of Canada delay hearing its challenge of the federal carbon tax.

The Saskatchewan government is applying to have its Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the federal carbon tax pushed back.

The government's support of petroleum, which mostly comes in the form of industrial tax breaks amounting to nearly $700 million, locks Ontarians into relying on dirty energy, according to the International Institute of Sustainable Development.

Newly released figures show the federal government set aside nearly $17.7 million on public awareness campaigns between April and June just ahead of a mandatory blackout on government advertising in the lead up to the fall campaign.

BMW Canada has won a skirmish in its quest for $175 million in compensation from storage company Autoport for alleged damage to thousands of imported vehicles.

In a conversation with National Observer about how Legal Aid Ontario is managing the 30 per cent decrease in its budget by the province ⁠— and blowback the cuts to services have brought ⁠— CEO David Field said the agency was forced to make many ‘hard decisions.’

Relief is in sight for sweltering Canadians after a weekend of high humidity and thunderstorms that affected sporting events, caused localized flooding, and sent people flocking to local pools to beat the heat as temperatures soared into the mid-30s.

Ontario's premier used to give out his cellphone number, but has disconnected it after the line was flooded with automated calls.

Hoping to take power away from the Liberals in this fall's election, the Conservatives are well ahead of the governing party in nominating candidates hoping to win seats in the House of Commons.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged on Thursday, July 11, 2019, that he has more work to do to sell Canadians on further actions to fight climate change, pointing to new premiers elected on vows to fight his government's agenda.

The federal government is urging all provincial governments to put an end to conversion therapy as it looks at changes to the Criminal Code.

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.