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A $20-billion loan for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion authorized by the federal government was actually primarily advanced as equity, new filings reveal. The equity portion, experts say, represents a nearly $15-billion bailout.

Ontario rolled out an $11-billion support package Monday to help businesses and workers under pressure from US tariffs — but industry experts and new polling suggest the relief may not be enough for a crisis expected to drag on well beyond the six-month window the Ford government has proposed.

A coalition of Canadian and American mayors is sounding the alarm over sweeping US tariffs on Canadian imports. They warn that the tariffs could devastate regional economies, drive up inflation and threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs on both sides of the border.

After a few years trailing the Conservatives, the Liberal Party is in the lead among young voters – and at least one political youth group is clear about what it wants the party to do with that support.

The nearly $30 billion in financial support could have been used to build much-needed interprovincial electricity grid connection infrastructure, said Julia Levin, associate director of national climate for Environmental Defence and author of the report.

Ontario’s newly appointed minister of the environment, conservation and parks is facing a wave of skepticism from environmental advocates and political opponents — not just for his lack of climate policy experience, but also for his controversial claim about Greenbelt development.

A former senior aide to Ontario Premier Doug Ford violated provincial lobbying rules while attempting to have a client’s land removed from the Greenbelt, the province’s integrity commissioner said.

On the same day that Liberal Leader Mark Carney unveiled his plan to protect the domestic auto industry, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a sweeping 25 per cent tariff on all cars not made in the United States.

Polling suggests Canadians are more concerned with responding to President Donald Trump than climate change, but the visions of the country's economy currently being pitched by federal leaders reveals the choice is muddling through the energy transition, or aligning with the U.S.'s dramatic fossil fuel expansion.

Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland has frozen $43 million in electric vehicle rebates claimed by Tesla and ordered a full investigation into a last-minute surge in filings by the U.S.-based automaker.

When Maureen Palmer took possession of her Tesla Model 3 in June of 2018, it felt like a statement of hope. A longtime environmentalist and grandmother, she wanted to reduce her carbon footprint and invest in what she believed was a forward-looking company.

As a federal election kicks into gear, it’s obvious that tariffs have the potential to wreak havoc on the Canadian economy and there is public appetite to fight back. What’s less clear is how to de-escalate the trade war, in large part due to the political moment we’re in and the mercurial nature of President Donald Trump.

Ontario is the worst in Canada for nature conservation, according to a new national report card from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS).

Rolling back environmental policy will hurt Canadians in the long run, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the executives of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies after they called for a national energy crisis to fast track new fossil fuel projects. The public spat reveals a new front in the ongoing battle over the sector's future in Canada.

Oil and gas executives in Canada are calling on Canadian federal leaders to take their cues from U.S. President Donald Trump — they’re asking the government to declare a national energy crisis to fast-track expensive fossil fuel infrastructure that would increase production and export capacity.