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Dec 17, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Mark Winfield
Canada’s trade and economic policies have been thrown into a state of chaos in the weeks following United States President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican exports to the U.S.The federal government is now suffering an internal crisis with the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Mark Winfield
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 as a model for climate and energy policy Down Under.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
nuclear-news.net | Mark Winfield |Christina MacPherson
Hey Australia, Ontario is no model for energy and climate policy Energy and climate strategy should prioritize options with lowest economic, environmental, technological and safety risks. Ontario’s does the opposite.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
canadianinquirer.net | Mark Winfield
(Version française disponible ici)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 as a model for climate and energy policy Down Under. It seems that Peter Dutton, the leader of the federal opposition Liberal (the conservative party in Australian politics), has been promoting Ontario’s nuclear heavy energy plans as a pathway for Australia.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Mark Winfield
Open this photo in gallery:Ontario Premier Doug Ford during a press conference in Niagara Falls, Ont., on Sept. 21, 2023.Tara Walton/The Canadian PressPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountMark Winfield is a professor of environmental and urban change at York University. He served on the ministerial advisory committee for the implementation of the former growth plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe region.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
canadian-accountant.com | Mark Winfield
Reducing taxes and costs to businesses and consumers in the short term is raising questions about the Ontario government’s long term fiscal responsibility
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
canadian-accountant.com | Mark Winfield
Mark Winfield is a professor of environmental and urban change at York University in Toronto. EVEN with the Ontario legislature rising for an extended summer break, the province’s politics have been rife with rumours of an early election call by Conservative Premier Doug Ford. Past experience suggests that this could be a high-risk strategy, especially only two years into a June 2022 majority mandate that ultimately rested on the ballots of less than 18 per cent of eligible Ontario voters.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Mark Winfield
By Mark Winfield, Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
Amid speculation that Doug Ford may call an early election in Ontario, there are several issues that should amount to a moment of deep political vulnerability for his government. Read complete article© The Conversation
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Mark Winfield
Even with the Ontario legislature rising for an extended summer break, the province’s politics have been rife with rumours of an early election call by Conservative Premier Doug Ford. Past experience suggests that this could be a high-risk strategy, especially only two years into a June 2022 majority mandate that ultimately rested on the ballots of less than 18 per cent of eligible Ontario voters. Why now?
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell |Mark Winfield
Two lonely nuclear dinosaurs finding each other in the Jurassic forest: perhaps an appropriate image for a planned partnership between NB Power and Ontario Power Generation (OPG). Each is stuck in the past, the only two utilities left in Canada operating nuclear power reactors. Both have rejected modern, efficient, decentralized, nimble, distributed energy systems powered by low-cost renewable energy in favour of keeping their aging CANDU reactors alive.
