The provincial government has tasked Ontario Power Generation, a Crown corporation, to consult with municipal, community and Indigenous leaders on building new electric plants. The specific sites are in Port Hope, near the Darlington nuclear plant; Haldimand County, near Hamilton; and St. Clair Township, south of Sarnia. (The Logic)

Talking point: The government is considering “all types of new energy generation, including nuclear,” it said in a statement. Ontario is set to release its energy plan early next year. Nuclear will be a key component of that plan, the government said in its fall economic update in October, as it tries to meet an anticipated 75 per cent surge in energy demand by 2050—the equivalent of adding four and a half cities the size of Toronto to the grid.