On Keeping Ms. Wynne As OLP Leader
This is from an email from Ontario Proud, who may be a PCPO front group: And it’s true. I cannot see a party led by some coup leader doing better…
2011 Ontario Election
Mississauga mayor urges government to move on from gas-plant hearings
Outspoken Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion lit up the Standing Committee on Justice Policy at Queen’s Park Thursday morning with testimony on the government’s 2011 decision to cancel a proposed gas…
When Green Energy Meets Endangered Species In Ontario
…you get something like this decision from the Environmental Registry, allowing Grand Valley Wind Farms Inc. to build nine wind turbines in the Township of East Luther Grand Valley on…
MikeHudak/Tim Harris
Ontario News Watch has been gradually expanding beyond simple news aggregation into investigative jurnalism, with occasionally impressive results. For example, this story: Directly contrary to what PC leader Tim Hudak’s…
The Fall and Rise of Dalton McGuinty
If I told you a few months ago there would be a picture of Dalton McGuinty waving on newspaper front pages October 7th, you'd have assumed it would be on…
Ontario votes to amble into the twenty-tens
For an election that was about as little as an election can possibly be about, last nights results brought more change to Ontario than many anticipated. And despite the set…
Quick Notes
...on the Ontario Election results.1) Folks weren't that angry after all. The opposition here--as opposed to B.C.--to the HST was never more than muted. That was the first sign to…
Majority-ish
With nearly all the votes counted, here's how it looks:Lib 53PC 37NDP 17Which, as you will hear about fifty billion times this weekend, leaves the Liberals one seat shy of…
Ontario Votes
I won't be providing many updates tonight, but will offer some thoughts before heading off to bed, with the mandatory post-mortems coming tomorrow.By all means, share your thoughts in the…
Ontario Votes
Ontarians head to the polls today, with the two parties deadlocked a Liberal majority looming a PC victory likely the outcome still up in the air.I'll be voting for Dalton…
MTHIRTY Pulls Down Another Fake Enviro-Blog
MTHIRTY is the marketing firm behind the PWU's (Power Workers Union) social media campaign against the McGuinty Green Energy Act. Part of this campaign involved creating a number of fake…
“The Tories are not going to win. This campaign is all but finished"
Those are the words of Ipsos' John Wright.If Tim Hudak is worried about a Liberal-NDP coalition, there's only one way to prevent it at this point - and it's not…
Ontario Votes 2011: Getting back to the Meat and Potatoes of Governing
Well, here we are. The Ontario provincial election is two days away, and the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are locked in a dead heat, continuing to make election promises at…
Let us make one thing perfectly clear
Ontario is parliamentary democracy, albeit within it's own constitutional jurisdiction. As such it is the Ontario legislature that determines who will be in the government and form the Cabinet. As…
Ontario Progressive Conservatives Go Gay Bashing
The article from Xtra in fairly in-depth. The most interesting bit:Liberal spokesperson Alicia Johnston says the flyers were distributed in English and Punjabi in a Brampton grocery store......which reminds me…
Monday Morning Notes
Junk-mail: this piece of homophobic drivel is circulating in a number of Brampton ridings. It has been officially sanctioned the the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (note the boilerplate text…
The Sun Won’t Come Out For Hudak
The Toronto Star's endorsement of Dalton McGuinty shouldn't surprise anyone. Yes, they were briefly the "Orange Star" this spring, but anyone who has read their Ontario election coverage saw this…
My Vote Compass Results – Ontario Election 2011
Vote Compass
Who’s Endorsing Rocco Rossi?
...actually, they've gone PCPO down the line, it looks like. That's JDL-Canada--the guys that made allies of Stephen Lennon, leader of that gang of neo-Nazis, pedophiles, and crack heads that…
The Morning After
Last night was the lone televised debate of the Ontario election campaign. With the vote too close to call, a lot was riding on it, and after last night......not a…