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Seeking to re-frame climate policy as a matter of economic justice, not just emissions targets, the party came out of its recent convention with an aggressive policy position that's likely to influence federal Leader Jagmeet Singh in the coming election.

Seventy-five years ago, on June 15, Tommy Douglas was elected the premier of Saskatchewan, where he led a movement that gave us medicare and, ever since, being Canadian means doctor visits, hospital care — without having to worry about how to pay for it..." federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said. "We can take it further."

Ottawa plans to impose the federal carbon tax on Alberta starting Jan. 1 and federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has written the province about the decision.

Budget cuts by the Ontario government may bring an end to the use of legal aid support to help vulnerable people fight the global climate change emergency. Doug Ford's government triggered the cuts in its first provincial budget last April as it slashed funding to Legal Aid Ontario by 30 per cent.

As she prepares to leave politics, the Liberal MPP for Ottawa—Vanier and longtime civil-liberties advocate reflects on her 2018 showdown with the premier and the prospects for democracy in Ontario.

Federal officials are pushing the Canadian Infrastructure Bank to back Via Rail's high-frequency rail project, according to documents tabled in the House of Commons.

Conservative house leader Todd Smith said they had "achieved so much." 

The federal Liberal government is providing $15 million over four years to rescue the 50 Million Tree Program, which is the first Ontario-based environmental initiative to be funded through the Low Carbon Economy Fund. The fund had earmarked $420 million for the province to provide to energy efficiency programs and other measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

Environment Canada is reviewing its public alerts system after residents of a suburban Ottawa neighbourhood hit by a tornado on Sunday, June 2, 2019, were never warned that one was on the way.

The Saskatchewan government has filed notice that it is taking its challenge of the federal carbon tax to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Public testimony on the More Homes, More Choices Act was limited to one day (Friday) and the bill could be passed into law by Wednesday, highlighting complaints from mayors, cities, and housing and environmental advocates that it is being rushed through to the benefit of developers and detriment of communities.

Enbridge Inc. said on Thursday, May 30, 2019, it could have a proposed oil pipeline tunnel built and operating beneath a crucial Great Lakes channel by early 2024, responding to demands from Michigan officials to expedite the shutdown of existing twin pipelines.

Premier Doug Ford's government is facing vehement opposition from municipalities across Ontario for proposing to weaken legislation protecting endangered species in order to allow mass development to occur in critical habitat for wildlife.

"We have two Conservative MPs in Barrie that have been silent on their leader's appearance on the same stage as a neo-Nazi sympathizer.  This is unacceptable and it is dangerous. They are playing footsies with white supremacists...," Barrie city councillor Keenan Aylwin wrote in a Facebook post.

The weather this summer could be starkly different across the country, according to the latest long range forecast from The Weather Network.