Tag: Ontario election
Ontario election: NDP leader not talking what-ifs if party falls short June 2
Andrea Horwath, fighting her fourth election as Ontario NDP leader, wouldn’t say Thursday whether she’d step down at the party’s helm if the New Democrats don’t win the June 2 election. Horwath, making a swing through Southwestern Ontario, was asked at a campaign stop in Paris, near Brantford, whether she’d resign as leader but stay […]
Horwath first major party leader to swing through Southwestern Ontario
New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath is making a campaign swing through Southwestern Ontario, where in the last election the party had its best showing since 1990. Horwath made a stop at a Thamesford-area farm east of London on Wednesday afternoon, the first Big Three party leader to campaign in the southwest since the election […]
Ontario election: Millennial muscle growing, but will it be flexed at the polls?
Step aside, baby boomers. Millennials are fast becoming an age group with serious political clout, experts say, the rapidly-growing generation on track to outnumber boomers in Canada by the end of the decade. Born between 1981 and 1996, their numbers growing with immigration as boomers begin to dwindle, those 25- to 40-year-olds could be a […]
Green party pledges free tuition for students training for ‘green economy’ jobs
“The bottom line is we cannot afford to wait.”
Ontario Votes: Routed in 2018, Liberals without candidates in 14 ridings
After the worst electoral defeat in Ontario history four years ago, the Liberals are campaigning without candidates in 14 ridings — three in the London region — in what one expert says may be an early sign the party is trying to zero in on where it can win as it tries to come back […]