February 1, 2025 The following is a summary of the chapter “Unravelling Ontario’s Environment” from Against the People, edited by Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli (Fernwood 2025). The Ford government’s approach to environmental matters needs to be understood in the …
Why an election in Ontario now would be a very bad idea.
January 21, 2025 Version published in The Conversation, January 23, 2025 Ontario Premier Doug Ford has been dropping hints for some time about the possibility of a provincial election in the spring of this year, if not sooner. Those hints …
Doug Ford, Donald Trump and Energy
January 14, 2025 Version Published in the Globe and Mail, January 20, 2025 Ontario premier Doug Ford has moved into the forefront of Canadian responses to incoming US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose a 25 per cent tariff on …
Trump, Trade, Energy and the Implications for Canada.
December 15, 2025 Version Published in The Conversation, December 17, 2025 US President-elect Donald Trump’s November 25th tweet threatening to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican exports to the United States, has thrown Canadian politics into a state …
Ontario no model for energy and climate policy.
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 …