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Doug Ford’s Ontario government faces legal challenges on two fronts this week, with environmental groups wanting the cancellation of the province’s climate change strategy deemed illegal and the elementary teachers’ union and others targeting its regression to a 1998 sex-education curriculum.

“It would’ve been very different if I had been premier of Ontario,” Patrick Brown told National Observer in an interview. “I would have been a conservative partner with the federal government, trying to combat climate change.”

As the federal and provincial governments gear up for a tense legal and political battle over climate change, Ottawa announced that it has selected an Ontario company as the first recipient of funds under its climate plan. 

A decade-old goal to get at least half a million electric cars on Canada's roads by the end of 2018 appears to have missed the mark by more than 400,000.

“I’m outraged and heartbroken,” Dianne Saxe, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, said in an interview. “What a way to mark the 25th anniversary of the Environmental Bill of Rights, but to silence the commissioner and restrict the rights of the public. The government is saying to people, you can can trust us. They say they're going to police themselves. Now, when has that ever worked?”

The projects will create around 1,000 jobs and will leverage “our natural strengths as an energy province here in Alberta in every sense of the word,” Shannon Phillips, the province’s environment minister, said.

Facing mounting criticism, the Ontario government is hitting the pause button on its appointment of Premier Doug Ford's friend to the top job at province's police force.

Doug Ford's government has revoked existing funding for the College of Midwives of Ontario, as well as all future funding for the regulatory body that oversees over 900 midwives in the province and has received government support for 25 years.

Opposition politicians pounced on a call from Ontario’s interim top cop for an independent investigation into the executive hiring process at the force on Wednesday, as Premier Doug Ford ducked questions over his role in the appointment of a family friend as new commissioner.

Here are ten of the most compelling arguments and insinuations contained in the letter from Ontario's interim top cop to the province's ombudsman calling for an investigation into possible political interference in the process to replace him.

Quebec's finance minister brushed off complaints from Alberta on Monday, December 10, 2018, about his province's share of the federal equalization-funding pie, calling them pre-election posturing in the Prairie province.

Ontario's fiscal watchdog says that to fulfil his promise to balance the budget, Premier Doug Ford would need to make deep spending cuts that could cost $850 per person.

For the first time in a decade Ontario will not receive an equalization transfer from Ottawa, prompting the province's finance minister to join calls for the federal government to review how the program is set up.

An Ontario First Nation suffering from generations of mercury poisoning still needs a treatment centre and help for children harmed by the toxic metal, its chief said on Wednesday, December 5, 2018.

As the two party leaders intent on knocking Kathleen Wynne out of the premier’s office this year talked about their plans for Hydro One, utilities commissioners in Washington were watching and listening. And they were becoming increasingly concerned that a merger between Hydro One and Spokane-based Avista Corp. would always be at risk of political interference.