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1. Ontario’s new government should genuinely reform province’s electricity system

   Ontarians opted for change in last week’s provincial election, choosing the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to form government. Now it’s time for the new government to do what it was elected to do—show leadership on electricity ...

2. High cost of renewables—a made-in-Ontario problem

   A recent CBC News article discussed how market-based bidding structures have pushed down the electricity costs generated by renewable sources in Mexico and other places around the world. In Mexico’s case, the Italian company ENEL signed ...

3. Ontario sued over power prices

   In a recent article in the National Post, reporter Geoff Zochodne discusses another interesting twist in the Ontario power-price saga. Zochodne explores the recent lawsuits filed against Ontario’s minister of the attorney general, ...

4. Trudeau gets a lesson on energy poverty by Ontario resident

   In a video now circulating around the Internet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets an earful from a distressed Ontarian over the insane cost of electricity in the province. Holding a hydro bill of more than $1,000 in her shaking hands, ...

5. The human cost of Ontario’s electricity failures

   Over the last few months, a number of news reports have explained the hardships many Ontario families endure as a result of the government’s costly electricity policies. The latest tragic story comes from Global News. It spotlights one ...

6. Ontario throne speech mainly a political response to complex economic problems

   Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has decided to “reset” her government two years before the election, and in the lead up to this week’s throne speech, had promised a greater focus on jobs and the economy. One might think that Ontario’s ...

7. High electricity prices putting rural Ontario in energy poverty

   Ontario’s dramatic electricity price increases garnered national attention recently when a report last week on “Global National” highlighted how energy poverty is a growing concern for rural Ontarians. According to the report, even small ...

8. High electricity prices hurting Ontario business competitiveness

   There’s been a lot of attention given recently to just how much Ontario’s electricity policy failures and expansion of renewables are costing Ontarians. A recent Ontario auditor general’s report concluded that Ontarians have paid $37 ...

9. Auditor general report sheds more light on Ontario's soaring electricity costs

   We’ve been writing a lot recently on Ontario’s high electricity rates, which are partly driven by the province’s heavy investment in renewable energy. High electricity prices have been taking money out of consumers’ pockets and hurting ...