How Manitoba arrived at the decision to reject carbon pricing shows the obvious political limits to this policy tool.

The Ontario budget is neither as dramatically geared for austerity as was feared nor as transformational as some might have hoped. The budget theme is “protecting what matters most.” That means what they spend on is a clear indication of their priorities. That priority is clear: balancing the budget. But carefully, over six years. Spread the time to spread the pain. 

David McLaughlin of the International Institute for Sustainable Development provides key citations from the special report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show how Canada already is, and increasingly will be, affected by global warming and climate change.

The campaign against the NDP government has begun. We better get ready. Jason Kenney’s Unite Alberta campaign is deadly serious. And seriously deadly, to us.