Tag: Ontario election
Last-minute area Liberal candidate quits over nomination controversy
An embattled Southwestern Ontario Liberal candidate dropped out of the race, the NDP ripped a page from the last Tory playbook and the Greens sharpened their focus on two key ridings with the Ontario election one week away. Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca said Thursday his party’s Chatham-Kent-Leamington candidate, Audrey Festeryga, has withdrawn from the […]
PERTH-WELLINGTON: Pocketbook issues take centre stage in Stratford-area riding
This is one in a series of profiles on the 10 ridings across the London region.
OXFORD: Housing issues hot in riding home to auto and dairy belts
OXFORD THE RIDING Taking in Woodstock, Tillsonburg and Ingersoll, the riding also includes five rural townships in Oxford County and a sliver of Brant County. Manufacturing and agriculture figure prominently in the riding, home to two large auto assembly plants owned by Toyota and General Motors and to a large dairy belt. The riding has […]
Ontario 2022 election: Liberals vow to expand seniors’ home care to 400,000
1 p.m. Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca announced his party’s candidate Audrey Festeryga in Chatham-Kent-Leamington has withdrawn from the race amid New Democrat allegations the party used nomination signatures intended for their turfed candidate to get her on the ballot. Del Duca accused the NDP of repeatedly attacking Festeryga’s character and said this type of […]
Mud traces fly as Ontario leaders hit the one-week election home stretch
Another day, another trade-sector nod for Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives as flecks of mud flew Wednesday on the campaign trail with a week to go before the election.