Tag: Ontario election 2025
Ontario election: In one London riding, Liberal MP’s aide helps run Tory campaign
For Ryan Gauss, people are more important than politics and political parties. The chief of staff for London North Centre federal Liberal MP Peter Fragiskatos is helping run the provincial campaign of Progressive Conservative candidate Jerry Pribil in the same riding, where the city councillor is running against two-time NDP MPP Terence Kernaghan. It may […]
Q+A: Ex-premier David Peterson on Doug Ford, Donald Trump and the peril of polls
David Peterson offers an insider’s view of the Ontario election, the recent tariff scrap with the U.S. and provincial election campaigns.
Ontario Election 2025: Candidates talk up jobs, healthcare, affordability
With the threat of Trump tariffs temporarily on hold, talk on the Ontario campaign trail has branched out to other issues. Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford visited workers in Etobicoke on Friday, continuing a trend of courting the union vote, something Tories did not traditionally seek in the past. NDP leader Marit Stiles discussed healthcare […]
Ontario election: Cities have big problems. They may get little attention
Where do Ontario’s main three parties stand on the issues facing cities provincewide, and the growing calls for a better deal between Queen’s Park and municipal governments?
Ontario election: Is the NDP’s London fortress facing a Tory threat?
It’s early, but the Progressive Conservative blue wave that may wash over Ontario this provincial election just might hit the little island of orange that is London. The three London-only ridings are NDP-held in a region that’s otherwise a Tory stronghold. But early aggregate polling for the Feb. 27 election has the PCs leading in […]