Globe and Mail

A new multi-million dollar program offers taxpayers a major rebate for trading in pre-1995 model cars and purchasing new, more fuel efficient models.

Demands for action to reduce auto CO2 emissions receive a record number of shareholder votes at this year’s General Motors annual meeting.

Fresh off last week’s surprise announcement of funding for Toronto’s struggling transit system, the Ontario government is once again flexing its green muscles in advance of the fall’s elections. Today they rolled put plans to make Ontario a centre for green automotive manufacturing with an investment of $600 million for GM’s plant in Oshawa.

“Action on climate change . . . means new green technologies to sell to the world and it means new green jobs, developing, producing and selling those technologies,” McGuinty told the Shared Air Summit in Toronto on Monday.