London’s three New Democrat MPPs have been named to opposition critic roles, including the party’s chief enforcer at Queen's Park.
LFP reporter Jane Sims visited the four London ridings on Thursday morning to ask citizens who they voted for in the Ontario election, and why? Here are their answers LONDON-FANSHAWE On the ballot: Teresa Armstrong (NDP)*; Dave Durnin (Freedom Party); Kevin May (Liberal); Alan John McDonald (Independent); Wil Osbourne-Sorrell (Green); Peter Vanderley (Progressive Conservatives); Christopher […]
Here's what you need to know as Election Day dawns across the 10-riding London region
Doug Ford's appearance in London on the final day of campaigning may suggest his party feels they can claim at least one city riding.
Here’s a quick guide to what the four major parties propose to fix Ontario’s housing crisis.
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles campaigned in London Monday night, looking to boost her party’s three local MPPs seeking re-election while downplaying the controversial late exit of a New Democrat hopeful in the city’s fourth riding. Days from Thursday’s election, Stiles was at Winks Eatery downtown to greet about 100 people after a daylong blitz […]
Ontarians can be forgiven for sleepily stumbling toward the ballot box on Thursday, that's how stupefying the current campaign has been, set against the backdrop of Trump 2.0.
An NDP candidate in a London-area riding who said she secretly wanted to be black woman dropped out of the race Thursday. Amanda Zavitz, who was running in the riding of Elgin-Middlesex-London, posted on social media she was quitting because of comments she made in a lecture in New York that surfaced this week. “After […]
Three days of advance polling in Ontario’s Feb. 27 election open Thursday. Here’s all you need to know if you want to cast your ballot ahead of time. Jonathan Juha reports. THE BIG PICTURE With one week to go in Ontario’s snap election, its first mid-winter vote in 44 years and the first early election […]
Ontarians will be headed to the polls next week, and you’d be forgiven for not noticing. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, seeking a third straight majority mandate, triggered a snap election more than a year before the scheduled vote, plunging Ontario into a subdued campaign hampered by blizzard conditions and drowned out by U.S. President […]
A grassroots group of municipal politicians is urging voters to make homelessness a provincial election issue, with the equivalent of a city larger than Sarnia living on the street across Ontario. Calling the encampments that have cropped up in municipalities big and small in recent years a “human rights crisis,” the Ontario Coalition for the […]