Tag: Ontario election
Examining New Blue, a new right-of-centre option for Ontario voters
London candidates for the small-c conservative upstart New Blue Party made their pitch to voters Monday evening, with election day little more than two weeks away. About 70 supporters and members of the public gathered at the Byron Legion evening for a meet-and-greet with New Blue candidates from the three city ridings and Elgin-Middlesex-London. “We […]
Candidate forums ready to go for London and area ridings
London provincial election candidates are going toe to toe at several local debates, with a little more than two weeks to go until Ontarians head to the polls.
The ground game: High strategy and weird moments as Ontario campaign hits doorsteps
The leaders’ tours may grab the headlines, but it’s on your porch where the Ontario election campaign’s hard slogging unfolds.
ONTARIO ELECTION: Who’s running in the 10-riding London region
Final candidate lists by riding in the London region for the June 2 provincial election, following Thursday’s filing deadline with Elections Ontario: London West Jacques Boudreau, Libertarian Brad Harness, Consensus Ontario Kris Hunt, New Blue Vanessa Lalonde, Liberal Colleen McCauley, Green Mike McMullen, Freedom Party Paul Paolatto, PC Peggy Sattler, NDP* Cynthia Workman, Ontario Party […]
Ontario election: Chatham-area Liberal candidate yanked as social media slurs surface
CHATHAM – The latest in a string of apparent vetting failures, this one over anti-gay slurs posted on Facebook about a decade ago, cost the Liberals their original candidate in a Chatham-area riding just hours before the Ontario election nomination deadline in a wide-open race.
Ontario election: Ford touts planned move of agency to city in London campaign stop
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford touted his pre-election vow to bring Ontario’s workplace insurance agency head office to London during his first campaign stop in the city.
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.”