Tag: Ontario election
LONDON NORTH CENTRE: Signature battleground riding with storied past
LONDON NORTH CENTRE THE RIDING Home to Western University, the Old East Village, Masonville and the downtown core, it’s a diverse riding with the most dwellings, nearly 70,000, of any of London’s three stand-alone urban electoral districts. The riding is bounded on the west by Wonderland Road, on the east by Highbury Avenue, the city’s […]
Ontario election 2022: Deadly weekend storm leaves its mark on campaign trail
Ontario’s four main party leaders highlighted their plans for highways, housing and long-term care Tuesday, as the campaign focused on swaying voters in the Greater Toronto Area. But climate change also surfaced on the campaign trail, in the fallout of Saturday’s violent storm system that roared across southern Ontario and into Quebec, leaving at least […]
Ontario election 2022: Leaders pitch housing, highway and long-term care promises Tuesday
1 p.m. Tourism advocates are pushing to make help for the pandemic-battered industry a ballot box issue on June 2. Despite the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions provincewide, the effects of two years of rolling lockdowns are lingering for the 200,000 businesses and 400,000 people working in tourism-related businesses across the province. 11 a.m. The Green […]
LONDON-FANSHAWE: Riding a rare double NDP fortress in London
LONDON-FANSHAWE THE RIDING Shaped like a backward ‘L’, the mainly urban riding is home to the London International Airport and nearby industries, Fanshawe College, giant defence contractor General Dynamics Land Systems and much of the White Oaks neighbourhood. The riding extends north and east to the city limits, taking in some of London’s rural reaches. […]
ELGIN-MIDDLESEX-LONDON: New MPP guaranteed in rare open race
ELGIN-MIDDLESEX-LONDON THE RIDING The triangle-shaped, urban-rural riding covers all of Elgin County, including St. Thomas, Thames Centre to the east and a significant swath of south London, from the Bostwick neighbourhood to Lambeth. The riding has historically been home to key players Ontario’s in automotive manufacturing sector and is spanned by the Hwy 401. HOTTEST […]