September 8, 2024 Version published in Policy Options, October 4, 2024 Over the past few weeks word has begun to reach Ontario of a series of stories in the Australian media in which the province is being held up a …
What the Toronto condo market downturn says about Ontario’s experiment with giving developers control over urban planning
June 19, 2024 Version published in the Globe and Mail, June 26, 2024 The Ford government’s interventions in municipal land use planning over the past five years set in motion an enormous, unplanned experiment in what happens when the development …
Rumours of an early election call invite reflections on Ford government’s record in Ontario.
May 30, 3024 Published in The Conversation, June 10, 2024 The past week in Ontario politics has been alive with rumours of an early election call by the Ford government this summer. Conventional wisdom would be that this would be …
Jurassic World Returns: Featuring the New Brunswick-Ontario Nucleosaurous (Nucleosaurous Maximus Novum Brunsvicum-Ontarianis)
Published in the Energy Mix, March 29, 2024, the New Brunswick Media Co-op, March 30, 3024. By Susan O’Donnell and Mark Winfield Two lonely nuclear dinosaurs finding each other in the Jurassic forest: perhaps an appropriate image for a …
Avoiding hard questions about what is ‘getting done’ in Ontario.
March 7, 2024 Avoiding hard questions about what is ‘getting done’ in Ontario. Version published in Policy Options, March 25, 2024 At the end of February, the Ford government introduced a package of measures under the banner of ‘getting it …
Ontario Power Generation’s Nuclear Power Play
February 3, 2023 Version published in the Globe and Mail February 7, 2024 The Ontario government’s announcement last week of its intention to pursue the refurbishment of the Pickering B nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Ontario between …
Ontario’s renewable energy announcement is welcome, but doesn’t the province’s change high-cost and high-emissions approach to electricity.
January 2024 Version published in the Toronto Star, January 22, 2024 Last month the Ford government announced its intention to procure 2000MW of new electricity supplies from renewable sources, including wind, solar and hydro by 2030, with a potential for …
The Political and Policy Impact of the Breakdown of the Federal-Provincial Consensus on Climate Change
November 12, 2023 Version published in The Conversation, November 19, 2023 It has been a bad few weeks for the federal government’s strategies around climate change A decision to respond to concerns, principally in Atlantic Canada, about the impact of …
SEI Studies in Ontario Energy Policy Series #8: Post-Consumer Management of End-of-Life Electric Vehicle Batteries
October 2023 – Summary published in Policy Options, November 16, 2023 Study Summary. The Canadian federal government, as well as the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, has committed tens of billions of dollars to the development of electric vehicle (EV) …
The Political and Policy Fallout from Doug Ford’s Greenbelt Reversal
September 22, 2023 Published in The Conversation, September 25, 2023 Doug Ford’s extraordinary reversal on his moves last fall to open the Greater Toronto Area Greenbelt for housing development flows from two colossal political miscalculations. The first was to failure …