The Ontario government has proposed repealing measures that made it easier to build new renewable energy projects. Critics say the changes would be a significant step backwards.

Environment Minister Jeff Yurek lacked the legal authority to cancel the Nation Rise wind farm and either ignored or misunderstood key evidence, the Ontario Superior Court ruled. “This decision does not meet the requirements of transparency, justification and intelligibility," the decision said.

“Mr. Ford, the ball is in your court. If you believe this decision is not a waste of public money, and you did not use bogus evidence to justify it, let the auditor general prove it,” Horwath said.

To make up the gap, the Ontario government will have to either increase spending or make more cuts.

Two of three Ontario Superior Court judges determined the Ford government acted illegally when it killed the province’s cap-and-trade carbon price without doing legally mandated public consultations.

Justin Trudeau's Liberals and Andrew Scheer's Conservatives were running neck-and-neck during warm-up laps for the start of the 40-day federal election campaign, a new poll suggests.

In a conversation with National Observer about how Legal Aid Ontario is managing the 30 per cent decrease in its budget by the province ⁠— and blowback the cuts to services have brought ⁠— CEO David Field said the agency was forced to make many ‘hard decisions.’

A Ministry of Environment spokesperson said cap and trade was "a poorly designed, hastily implemented and poorly executed" system.

A government source assembled a full list of the cancelled projects and shared it exclusively with National Observer. The leaked list reveals a wide range of initiatives set to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that lost their funding, including schools, hospitals, small businesses and several social housing providers.

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

The Ontario government is slashing a series of programs that were designed to help save energy in buildings. It's all part of a plan that Premier Doug Ford's government claims would help “businesses improve their bottom line,” says a leaked provincial document.

Doug Ford is dismantling a support service designed to give municipalities more say over city development and empower Ontarians in local decision-making — a move critics are calling another blow to local democracy and a win for developers. 

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.