Tag: Ontario election

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca said Thursday his party’s Chatham-Kent-Leamington candidate, Audrey Festeryga, has withdrawn from the […]

This is one in a series of profiles on the 10 ridings across the London region.