Doug Ford makes his case for re-election
Premier Doug Ford capped off the first day of Ontario’s election campaign in London, where he pledged his government would spend $1 billion to build a new police college. Ford made the vow Wednesday evening when he spoke to a crowd of London police officers and other guests at the London Police Service Chief’s Gala at RBC Place London.
Premier Doug Ford’s early reelection campaign launched Wednesday below the Ambassador Bridge, highlighting a central theme of his strategy to win votes and paint himself as Canada’s defender against U.S. tariffs.
The same day Premier Doug Ford called an early election, his government announced it had reached a $20-million deal with Aroland First Nation that will, “build roads along the entire
Krista Ford Haynes has launched an online fundraiser to finance legal support for her husband’s disciplinary battle with the Toronto police.
Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford justified the early election call by saying the government needs a “clear mandate” from voters to spend big in confronting an across-the-board tariff threat from newly elected U.S. President Donald Trump.
Doug Ford will launch his election campaign in Windsor today. And a political scientist at the University of Windsor says she expects him to make the border city a prominent backdrop for his campaign.
The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario has accepted Premier Doug Ford's ask to dissolve the legislature for an early election that will officially begin on Wednesday.
Ford is taking Ontarians to the polls amid political instability in Ottawa after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced that he would resign.
President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.
Crombie, formerly mayor of notoriously NIMBY-ish Mississauga, is an unlikely champion for loosening restrictions on housing construction. But the Ontario Liberals’ housing plan — basically to slash development charges — got very positive reviews from across the political spectrum when it was released in November.
He’s made lots of mistakes, at least one of them a whopper. For much of his government’s six-plus years he’s been classed among Canada’s least popular premiers. He’s just triggered an election he might not need, well before it’s due. Yet there’s a very good chance he’ll win a third majority, possibly by a large margin.