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Toronto reporter Fatima Syed explores what is changing in Ontario politics and shares five things you may not know about Ontario's first-ever Green MPP.
The Green New Deal, catapulted onto the national agenda by a fiery mixture of political champions like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and mass youth-led organizing by the Sunrise Movement, is perhaps the most straightforward policy proposal for tackling climate change that many of us have ever seen.
It feels like an instant replay of the project’s last NEB review, which concluded in 2016. That review and the resulting federal cabinet approval of the pipeline and tanker project resulted in 15 legal challenges that led to a two-week hearing at the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA). The result? The court quashed the federal approval
No one would minimize the deep distress of workers losing their jobs in Oshawa, writes Elizabeth May. But the idea that the jobs must be saved because we must keep making the internal combustion engine is as tone deaf to global reality as deciding we have to buy a pipeline because oil prices are low.
B.C.’s proposed new Environmental Assessment Act is a massive improvement over what’s in place now, but experts say it doesn’t go far enough to protect the environment or ensure Indigenous consent.
Similar kinds of attacks on Quebec legislator Catherine Dorion and U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both newly-elected young women, are meant to inhibit their audacity and to chill their ambitions, because they both represent a radical break from the status quo, writes columnist Nora Loreto.
Errors in a recent ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay evidence for human-caused climate change.
By failing to bend to the governing party’s wishes, legislative officers will risk their jobs, though their jobs are explicitly to shine light on things gone wrong. And just to make sure the threat is clear, Bill 57 also removes the ability of eliminated officers to seek compensation in the courts for lost income, writes former longtime Ontario environment commissioner Gord Miller.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's recent decision to cancel plans for a new French university and slash the French-language commissioner position in the province has outraged Franco-Ontarians, writes Toula Drimonis.
