The leaders of Ontario’s main political parties are fanning out across the province today as they enter the final stretch of the election campaign. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford has only one event scheduled — an unspecified morning announcement in Ottawa. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath plans to end her day […]
Ontario Provincial Election 2022
By Noushin Ziafati and Jessica Smith
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Ontario’s main political parties are promising to hire more doctors and nurses and increase the number of spaces at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to address the need for health-care workers in the region — a problem that a hospital president says requires both immediate and long-term solutions. The […]
By Noushin Ziafati
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Three of Ontario’s four major political parties are promising to take steps to lower the price of food, but an expert says some of the main factors leading to rising costs are out of the province’s hands. The issue of affordability has been top of mind for Ontarians throughout the […]
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Elections Ontario says more than one million people voted in the advance polls. Advance voting was available for 10 days this year, up from five in the last election. Elections Ontario says preliminary figures indicate that 1,066,545 people cast their ballot in advance polls this year, which represents 9.9 per […]
By Allison Jones
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario’s autism program has undergone four major revamps in the past six years, and has seen five different ministers in charge, and Alina Cameron just wants her daughter’s over four-and-a-half year wait for treatment to be done. Fiona, 7, has been on the wait list for government-funded therapy since Oct. […]
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TORONTO – Three of Ontario’s four major political parties are promising to end for-profit long-term care in the province, though they offer differing plans for how to accomplish what would be a huge undertaking. The NDP, Liberals and Greens say the COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on long-term care, and […]
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Last week NDP candidate for Kenora-Rainy River JoAnne Formanek Gustafson issued the following statement calling out her opponent, the incumbent candidate, Conservative Greg Rickford for inaction over the recent wave of flooding across the riding. “The flooding in communities here in Kenora-Rainy River and across the Northwest is getting worse […]
By Daniel Adam
Staff Writer
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Staff Writer
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Provincially, the average price for gas was at 200.2 cents per litre over the long weekend. With the provincial election looming, party leaders are discussing solutions on how to reduce the high prices. Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath said in a virtual media availability Friday that her party is the […]
By Jessica Smith
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario’s four main party leaders are reaffirming commitments to search for burial sites at the province’s former residential schools for Indigenous students one year after ground-penetrating radar unearthed what are believed to be the graves of 215 children at a former such facility in British Columbia. The Progressive Conservatives, New […]
By Nicole Thompson
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Three of Ontario’s four main parties are pledging to reverse cuts to the province’s student assistance program, but they’ve all attached different price tags to the promise. The program that converted many student loans to grants and made tuition free for some students was turfed by the Progressive Conservatives after […]
By Allison Jones
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO – Two of the leaders of Ontario’s four major political parties have been sidelined with COVID-19 with two weeks left to election day. Both NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner have tested positive, with Horwath’s result coming Thursday morning and Schreiner’s coming the previous evening. […]
By Maan Alhmidi
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
KINGSTON, Ont. – Ontario’s New Democrats and Liberals committed Wednesday to bringing in a law to fight Islamophobia and other forms of hate if elected to form government next month. Speaking to reporters in Kingston, Ont., NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said addressing racism and hate is a priority for people […]
