Tag: Ontario election
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.
LAMBTON-KENT-MIDDLESEX: Pocketbook issues loom large in far-flung riding
LAMBTON-KENT-MIDDLESEX THE RIDING The sprawling, Prince Edward Island-sized riding has been Tory blue since 2011, when the Progressive Conservatives won it from the Liberals who had held it through two terms. The mostly rural riding, anchored by the towns of Wallaceburg in the west and Strathroy-Caradoc in the east, stretches from Lucan Biddulph Township in […]
HURON-BRUCE: Can new parties make inroads in Tory country?
This is one in a series of local riding profiles ahead of the June 2 provincial election: THE RIDING This riding of more than 6,000 square kilometres hugs the Lake Huron shore, from Port Elgin at its northern tip south to Grand Bend, and far enough eastward to take in towns such as Walkerton, Seaforth […]
SARNIA-LAMBTON: Energy and housing issues big in border riding
SARNIA-LAMBTON THE RIDING Taking in Sarnia and western Lambton County, it also includes Petrolia, Point Edward, St. Clair, Plympton-Wyoming, Oil Springs and Enniskillen. The riding, which borders Michigan across the St. Clair River, is home to a major petro-chemical industrial hub and agriculture looms large in the district’s rural reaches. Created in 1999, the riding […]
Ontario 2022 election: Small biz and (another) PC union nod among Wednesday trail bits
2:30 p.m. Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are maintaining a strong lead with a little over a week left in the provincial election campaign, the latest poll by Postmedia/Leger says. Thirty-eight per cent of respondents said they intend to vote PC, while support for Steven Del Duca’s Liberals dropped from 28 to 26 per cent from […]
LONDON WEST: Housing, development key issues in growing district
One in a series of riding profiles ahead of the June 2 provincial election: LONDON WEST THE RIDING This mostly urban riding stretches from the city limits in the west and north to Wonderland Road in the east and Southdale Road in the south. London West covers the Byron, Hyde Park and Oakridge neighbourhoods and […]
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. […]