Tag: Ontario election 2022
Ontario election: Chatham-area Liberal candidate yanked as social media slurs surface
CHATHAM – The latest in a string of apparent vetting failures, this one over anti-gay slurs posted on Facebook about a decade ago, cost the Liberals their original candidate in a Chatham-area riding just hours before the Ontario election nomination deadline in a wide-open race.
Ontario election: Ford touts planned move of agency to city in London campaign stop
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford touted his pre-election vow to bring Ontario’s workplace insurance agency head office to London during his first campaign stop in the city.
Ontario election: NDP leader not talking what-ifs if party falls short June 2
Andrea Horwath, fighting her fourth election as Ontario NDP leader, wouldn’t say Thursday whether she’d step down at the party’s helm if the New Democrats don’t win the June 2 election. Horwath, making a swing through Southwestern Ontario, was asked at a campaign stop in Paris, near Brantford, whether she’d resign as leader but stay […]
Horwath first major party leader to swing through Southwestern Ontario
New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath is making a campaign swing through Southwestern Ontario, where in the last election the party had its best showing since 1990. Horwath made a stop at a Thamesford-area farm east of London on Wednesday afternoon, the first Big Three party leader to campaign in the southwest since the election […]
It will be all about agriculture (and pie) at Oxford election debate
Oxford candidates in the June 2 provincial election are set to take the stage in Embro on Wednesday for a debate on agricultural issues facing the farm-heavy region. Oxford County Federation of Agriculture, which represents farmers and agri-businesses, is hosting the in-person debate from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Embro Zorra Community Centre, northwest […]
Green party pledges free tuition for students training for ‘green economy’ jobs
“The bottom line is we cannot afford to wait.”
Ontario Votes: Routed in 2018, Liberals without candidates in 14 ridings
After the worst electoral defeat in Ontario history four years ago, the Liberals are campaigning without candidates in 14 ridings — three in the London region — in what one expert says may be an early sign the party is trying to zero in on where it can win as it tries to come back […]