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9 months ago
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Who can defeat Doug Ford? After two crushing losses, here’s why the Liberals are insisting they f...

What if an opposition party fixated on unseating Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives held a leadership race...

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10 months ago
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Bonnie Crombie denies Doug Ford’s claim that she is ‘endorsing our Greenbelt plan’

In the wake of Bonnie Crombie’s splashy entrance to the Liberal leadership race, Premier Doug Ford is crowing about t...

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10 months ago
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Bonnie Crombie officially registers as Ontario Liberal leadership candidate

Bonnie Crombie, the front-runner in the race for the Ontario Liberal leadership, has officially registered as a candi...

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10 months ago
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Bonnie Crombie is a game changer. Here’s why Doug Ford is worried about her

Crombie wants to take the Liberals back to the centre believing that the party’s leftward drift drove voters into For...

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about 1 year ago
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Liberal insiders think this former Trudeau cabinet minister can beat Doug Ford

Former federal cabinet minister Navdeep Bains is being touted as a potential Ontario Liberal leadership candidate, so...

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about 1 year ago
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Hammered twice by Doug Ford, Ontario Liberals gather with an eye on 2026 election

As more than 1,500 Ontario Liberals gather in Hamilton for the party’s largest convention in a generation, there’s a ...

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about 1 year ago
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Could this GTA mayor be the leader Ontario’s Liberals need to defeat Doug Ford?

Ontario Liberals are abuzz over the prospect of popular Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie running for the party leader...

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about 1 year ago
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Join our party if you want our leader, Ontario Greens tell Liberals

Scores of Green Party activists have responded to a push by 40 veteran Ontario Liberals to convince Mike Schreiner to...

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about 1 year ago
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It’s easy to see how the Liberals lost to Doug Ford. It’s harder to see how they win back power

The party faces a long and winding road to political rehabilitation, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Doug Ford could take a lesson from Mike Harris about official-party status

The political math doesn’t add up when the party that came second in the popular vote isn’t recognized at Queen’s Par...

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over 1 year ago
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Steven Del Duca to run for mayor of Vaughan

Former Ontario Liberal leader Steven Del Duca is running for mayor of Vaughan, the Star has learned.

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over 1 year ago
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John Fraser to again serve as Ontario Liberals’ interim leader

Liberal MPP John Fraser, who served as interim party leader for two years after the Grits were almost wiped out in th...

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almost 2 years ago
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Confidential Liberal memo lays out strategy to hold Doug Ford’s PCs to a minority government

Doug Ford leads in the June 2 election campaign, but the Liberals have surged ahead of the NDP and could stop a Progr...

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almost 2 years ago
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Ontario leaders spar over COVID, affordability and climate crisis

The debate was dominated by the two-year COVID-19 crisis, the affordability crisis that now threatens post-pandemic r...

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almost 2 years ago
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Liberals fire candidate who baselessly claims that ‘rebreathing’ by infants causes homosexuality

The Liberals have fired a second candidate in two days after the Star revealed the party’s standard-bearer in Parry S...

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almost 2 years ago
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Can Steven Del Duca win Ontario with ideas that are more memorable than credible?

If the Liberal leader’s pyramid of promises is self-evidently aspirational, it’s also revealingly political, Martin R...

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almost 2 years ago
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Who is mystery man Steven Del Duca? Here’s why friends, rivals and colleagues say not to underest...

After spending most of his life in and around Ontario politics, the Liberal leader thinks he knows what it will take ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Liberals promise to end for-profit long-term care in Ontario

Calling the warehousing of seniors in long-term-care homes “one of the greatest mistakes” of the last century, Ontari...

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almost 2 years ago
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Opinion | Ontario election’s female candidates discuss their challenges in the political arena

Coming from four different ridings, they are at least not competing against one another, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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almost 2 years ago
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Kathleen Wynne praises allies and opponents alike in candid Queen’s Park goodbye speech

After almost 19 years at Queen’s Park, the most powerful woman in the history of Ontario politics called it a day.

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almost 2 years ago
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Opinion | Always ahead of her time, Kathleen Wynne has some advice as she prepares to leave Queen...

Where once Kathleen Wynne commanded an entire government of 60,000 public servants, trailed by political courtiers an...

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almost 2 years ago
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Hospital president to run for Liberals in Tory-held Etobicoke-Lakeshore

The Ontario Liberals are hoping Lee Fairclough will be just what the doctor ordered to help them win an Etobicoke sea...

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about 2 years ago
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Liberals would hike Ontario’s minimum wage to at least $16, Del Duca says

An Ontario Liberal government would impose a “regional living wage” starting at $16 an hour and give all workers port...

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | ‘You don’t attack someone who’s not a threat’: Steven Del Duca is flattered to be under...

The new Liberal leader says voters want to look ahead, no matter how much his opponents want to keep looking back, Ma...

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | NDP-Liberal deal shows you shouldn’t count Justin Trudeau out

The co-operation pact between two major Canadian political parties is just the latest in a year full of surprises, Su...

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over 2 years ago
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Liberal insiders shrug as rumours swirl about deal with New Democrats

Several Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers say they don’t see an upside or need to strike a formal agreement with the ...

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over 2 years ago
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Liberal MPP sought COVID-19 vaccination exemption for personal support worker

Ontario’s Liberals are being accused of saying one thing and doing another after their Thunder Bay MPP sought special...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Steven Del Duca is promising Ontario a better way to vote. Whether that happens is up t...

The Liberal leader is trying to reframe the reform question by recasting the way voters cast their ballots, Martin Re...

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over 2 years ago
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If I don’t change Ontario’s election law, I’ll resign as premier, Steven Del Duca promises

Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca is promising major electoral reform — including ranked ballots for voting — if he unse...

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over 2 years ago
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Liberals banking on banker to safeguard Don Valley West when Kathleen Wynne retires

The Ontario Liberals are banking on a prominent banker to safeguard one of their most valuable seats.

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Liberals used an old trick to turn the election around in the campaign’s final days: Th...

Online campaigning is here to stay, but how parties use the digital realm is what distinguishes a winning campaign fr...

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over 2 years ago
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Liberals ask Toronto candidate charged with sexual assault in 2019 to ‘pause’ campaign

The Crown dropped the charge against Kevin Vuong after determining “it would not be in the public interest to proceed...

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over 2 years ago
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Top Liberal is ‘very confident’ in chances of winning a majority

Dominic LeBlanc, the New Brunswick Liberal candidate and Justin Trudeau’s intergovernmental affairs minister, said ou...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | ‘Ford is flopping around here’: Ontario premier’s truce with Justin Trudeau collapses o...

Doug Ford’s relations with the federal Liberals have clearly deteriorated since the heady days when he was palling ar...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Meghan McCain is leaving ‘The View’ and liberals are foolish to pop the champagne

Whether you agreed or disagreed with her on any issue, McCain’s political and cultural views were coherent. The mediu...

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almost 3 years ago
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Opinion | Do Muslims feel safe in Canadian communities? Omar Alghabra wants you to ask yourself t...

The federal transport minister has some things to say about Islamophobia, Susan Delacourt writes.

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almost 3 years ago
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The Harper Conservatives say they sought an investigation into Canada’s top soldier. But the man ...

Former national security adviser Richard Fadden, who is identified by the Conservatives as having been asked to carry...

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almost 3 years ago
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Opinion | Canada bailed out political parties during the pandemic. Were they really worth saving?

Parties have largely outlived their usefulness in our democracy, and they might even be making it worse, Susan Delaco...

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almost 3 years ago
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Liberal MPP Michael Coteau seeks federal nomination in Don Valley East

After weeks of speculation, Coteau confirmed Wednesday he will seek the federal Liberal nomination in Don Valley East...

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