Liberal Party supporters are refusing to be intimidated by vandalism in a downtown Toronto riding. Last weekend in the St Paul’s riding, some residents with Liberal Party signs on their lawns had their homes and…
By the time the very first ballot is cast on Ontario’s Oct. 6. election, a small army of workers will have spent thousands of hours and millions dollars working to ensure all goes well. At a warehouse and office for the riding of Oakville, roughly 30 employees work day and night, seven days a week preparing and assembling everything that is needed for the big day.
You see them on every ballot, but hardly ever on TV debates or in election results. The Freedom, Libertarian and Communist parties are just some of the lesser-known contenders running candidartes in the Oct. 6 provincial election. Besides the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals and NDPers, there are 18 other political parties registered with Elections Ontario.
Living in the suburbs affects how voters feel about elections, it seems. Experts in voting habits gathered Oct. 3 at the University of Toronto Scarborough to discuss trends in the suburban GTA.
Ontario should be a little more like Sweden, Parkdale-High Park incumbent MPP Cheri DiNovo says. The veteran NDP candidate pointed to the Nordic nation when the Swansea Town Hall provincial election debate turned to trade on Sunday, less than a week before the Oct. 6 vote.
Jethi is the Progressive Conservative candidate for Toronto-Danforth in this Thursday’s provincial election. She says she uses cricket, the sport she grew up with in India, to get to know the members of her community and keep them engaged.
The debate, one of many across the province for “Education Day,” saw Shawn Ali of the Green Party, Helen Burstyn of the Liberals and New Democrat Party incumbent MPP Michael Prue face off at Secord Elementary School to an audience of more than 100 people.
Burstyn and Prue agreed on the issues regarding health care and education, but when it came to the economy, the candidates held very different views.
After sweeping in Mayor Rob Ford, and re-electing only two Liberals in the federal election earlier this year, Scarborough has shown signs of swinging right politically. Yet recent polls are showing something much different.
Last June, Rachel Chen graduated from Glenforest Secondary School in Mississauga. Completing Grade 12, she had difficulty finding the money to pay for her college application. “When we were doing the actual application where you…