Local News from Across the Rainy River District
With Parliament back in session, the Liberals must shore up support for the upcoming fall budget, but were quickly back to trading blows with Conservatives across the aisle. When politicians returned to Ottawa on Monday, they were greeted with a crowd of protesters wielding flags and signs reading: “Fuck Carney,” […]
Ontario’s NDP is set to name an interim leader later today to replace Andrea Horwath and the party is expected to select a longtime Toronto caucus member. Party sources say the caucus recommended Peter Tabuns, who has represented the riding of Toronto-Danforth since 2006 and who has served as critic […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced his new cabinet Friday. Greg Rickford is minister of northern development and minister of Indigenous affairs. He was also previously responsible for mining and natural resources and forestry. New additions: Michael Ford, the premier’s nephew and a former Toronto city councillor, becomes minister of citizenship […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet will be sworn in on Friday, as he gets set to name an executive council out of his new and larger Progressive Conservative caucus. The ceremony is set to take place at 10 a.m., followed by remarks by the premier. Invitations have gone out to […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has not even named a new cabinet, fresh off his majority election victory, and one of the biggest challenges his new government will face is already staring him down. Four of the five major education unions have taken the first step to start bargaining, ahead of […]
Last Thursday MPP Greg Rickford was re-elected, receiving 59 per cent of Kenora-Rainy River votes. Rickford says he’s taking some time to recover from the campaign trail, but will be ready to go when called back to Queen’s Park in the near future. Overall, the provincial election was largely lopsided. […]
Hours after being handed a second majority government even larger than his first, Ontario Premier Doug Ford delivered a message of unity Friday to supporters new and old, as well as those who don’t support him at all. The Progressive Conservatives won a commanding 83 out of the legislature’s 124 […]
It’s election day in Ontario, with voters heading to the polls to pick their next provincial government. While this election is predicted to be one in which voters don’t have a huge desire for change, there are several interesting races to keep an eye on. Vaughan-Woodbridge Liberal Leader Steven Del […]
The leaders of Ontario’s four major parties have cast their ballots after voting got underway across the province Thursday. Polls opened across the province this morning after a month-long election campaign that saw parties battle over the best approaches to affordability, health care and infrastructure. Polling conducted earlier in the […]
Elections Ontario says it has sent significantly more mail-in ballots to voters this time around. Voting kits have been mailed out to 126,135 eligible residents who sent in requests be- fore last week’s deadline. That’s a sharp increase from 2018, when only 15,202 ballots were doled out that way. Voting […]
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 […]
