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 […]
Ontario’s three mainstream political parties are pledging support for industry in the face of a looming trade war with the U.S.
Twenty years ago, the future King Charles was caught on a hot mic during a ski trip with his sons, William and Harry.
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 […]
Home to a factory being built by Volkswagen that could become the largest in Canada, and auto parts plants that employ thousands, fears over Donald Trump tariff threats abound on the Ontario election campaign trail in the riding of Elgin-Middlesex-London. LFP reporter Brian Williams digs into the political realities and what the three major parties […]
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 […]
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Below you can watch the Rogers TV/LFP all-candidates debates for the three urban London races, and one held in Elgin-Middlesex-London, as the clock ticks down to the Feb. 27 Ontario election. All the candidates were invited, though only one Progressive Conservative candidate attended. And you can also check out LFP’s breakdown of all 10 local […]
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 […]
With the nomination deadline over, and the contests now set, Jennifer Bieman breaks down the ridings and who's running in the London region.