A race made complicated by the sudden resignation of NDP victor from last June, including a former New Democrat carrying the Liberal banner and disgruntled former Liberal candidate now running as an independent. ...
Category: Election 2014
Disagreeing with Doug: Tories have ‘excellent candidates’
Interim PC leader Jim Wilson says Doug Ford's premise that none of the current Tory leadership candidates can topple Premier Kathleen Wynne is wrong. ...
Municipal elections review could see shorter campaigns and electoral reform in 2018
The municipal affairs minister said he's asked the Association of Municipalities of Ontario to come up with a list of proposed changes, and that will form the review's starting point. ...
Lake Simcoe activists push ban on corporate, union campaign donations
Lake Simcoe activists, citing evidence that developer donations sway municipal elections, are preparing to move from local education campaigns to provincial advocacy. ...
Duguid tight-lipped while proclaiming Liberal transparency
Minister of Infrastructure Brad Duguid mainly avoided questions about MaRS at today's estimates committee. ...
Just how bad are the Tories’ membership numbers?
The Tories have lost 90 per cent of the members they had in 2002, but even in the heady days of 100,000-plus membership, it appears a fraction of that number was active in the party. ...
MacLeod prepares campaign launch set for Oct. 19
MacLeod's all-but-official entry into the race makes her the last of the expected contestants – but Tories have until Jan. 30, 2015, to surprise us. ...
Ranked ballots won’t help turnout, but extending franchise to permanent residents would: study author
The author of a study looking at the demographics of voter turnout said the key to increasing turnout, at least in municipal elections, is to better engage neighbourhoods with large immigrant populations ...
Wynne makes Ontario’s mandate letters public for the first time
Premier Kathleen Wynne released the mandate letters for her Cabinet today, a first for any Ontario government. ...
Pride needs to come after the fall, Fedeli says
The Progressive Conservative finance critic is tossing his hat in the PC leadership race with a pitch to enlist the membership on formulating party policy - and to make last June's election debacle a distant memory. ...