Ontario

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.

Prince Edward Island and Quebec have joined as interveners in Saskatchewan's legal challenge of the federal carbon tax.

A city in central Ontario is calling for the return of an iconic monument to explorer Samuel de Champlain that has been a centrepiece in the city's laid-back waterfront landscape for nearly a century.

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

The federal government is increasing the carbon tax on new natural-gas plants to discourage power companies from building them.

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. 

Sidewalk Labs, the Google-connected company proposing the "largest, densest climate-positive district in North America" along Toronto's lakeshore, has an uncharacteristically low-tech secret weapon: wood.

After two record-setting wildfire seasons, some residents of B.C. and Alberta have decided that the twin threats of flames and smoke are too much to live with.

Alberta's justice minister says the province is asking for a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the federal government imposing its carbon tax.

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."

On June 12, Barrie city council voted unanimously to reprimand Coun. Keenan Aylwin for calling out two Tory MPs for "playing footsies" with white supremacy. The reprimand was the first the council had delivered to one of its own, and in delivering it Barrie, Ontario, has become a microcosmic study in how difficult it can be for governments to effectively tackle the increasingly troubling issue.

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).