Evening Brief: Trudeau calls Russia a rival at NATO summit By iPolitics. Published on Jun 14, 2021 5:53pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a media availability in West Block on July 8, 2020. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
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We begin in Brussels, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is attending the NATO summit the first one to take place in several years without former U.S. president Donald Trump in the White House. You’ll recall Trump called the alliance “obsolete” on more than one occasion. Today, Trudeau insisted the alliance is “more united than ever” against Russia, China and the general threat of authoritarianism in the wake of what he called an “intere
Overriding Charter, Ontario Tories pass contentious election-reform bill By Iain Sherriff-Scott. Published on Jun 14, 2021 4:25pm Ontario Premier Doug Ford, pictured speaking to reporters from Toronto in June 2020, was absent from the chamber as his party advanced the bill. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star)
Premier Doug Ford’s government on Monday passed a controversial election-reform bill by overriding the Constitution for the first time in the province’s history.
To make that happen, the government invoked the notwithstanding clause of the Constitution, which gives provinces the power to ignore court rulings and override Charter rights. Opposition parties at Queen’s Park oppose the contentious tactic, which the government is taking less than a year away from the next provincial election.
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Under pressure from municipalities and groups concerned about the climate crisis, the operator of Ontario’s electricity system is looking at what phasing out the province’s gas plants could look like.
Ontario intends to rely more on natural gas-fired plants for power over the next decade, a change that is set to erase climate progress made by eliminating coal. Over the past year, this plan has been met with resistance from environmental groups and 27 municipalities including Toronto and Hamilton which have called for gas plants to be phased out.
In response, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) launched an assessment this spring to look into how it would move away from natural gas, and what the risks of such a change might be.