Court won’t hear province’s appeal in Ontario climate case led by Sudbury teen

Canada’s top court has dismissed Ontario’s request to weigh in on a major challenge to its climate plan brought by a group of young activists. The decision released on Thursday means the case will be revived with a new hearing in the lower courts. In 2019, at the height of a youth-led wave of climate activism, Sophia Mathur of Sudbury – who was then 12 – and six other young people joined together to challenge Ontario’s watered-down emissions target. Lawyers for the