Tag: Ontario election
Letters to the Editor: May 31, 2022
Pick which winner?
High advance poll turnout a surprise amid lacklustre campaign
Nearly 10 per cent of Ontario voters cast a ballot in advance polls, up from last provincial election, a potentially encouraging sign of voter engagement in an otherwise dull provincial campaign, experts say.
Letters to the Editor: May 28, 2022
Here we go again: Conservatives, New Democrats, Liberals and Greens out seeking our votes.
How Doug Ford union nods reflect right’s inroads with working-class voters
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives clinched another construction sector union endorsement Friday – their eighth of the campaign – in a sign of how parties on the political right have made significant inroads with working-class voters, one expert says.
CHATHAM-KENT-LEAMINGTON: Unexpected twists buffet Erie shore riding
This is one in a series of profiles of ridings across the London region ahead of the June 2 provincial election: CHATHAM-KENT-LEAMINGTON THE RIDING Formerly known as Chatham-Kent-Essex, and renamed in 2012 redistribution, the riding includes all of the former Kent County south of the Thames River, along with Chatham, Leamington and Mersea Township in […]
Ontario 2022 election: Grits pledge to kill $10B highway to boost schools
2 p.m. Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives clinched another trade union endorsement Friday, his eighth of the 2022 election campaign. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 793, which represents more than 18,000 crane and heavy equipment operators in the province, is the latest trade group to throw its support behind Ford’s PCs. 11:15 a.m. New Democrat […]
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 Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca said Thursday his party’s Chatham-Kent-Leamington candidate, Audrey Festeryga, has withdrawn from the […]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 […]