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Rob Cerjanec ending campaign to become Ontario Liberal leaderMPP Lee Fairclough, former federal cabinet minister Navdeep Bains, housing advocate Eric Lombardi and former political staffer Dylan Marando are still in the running.Politics11 hours
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Former Wynne, Trudeau staffer hopes policy chops can win Ontario Liberal leadership raceDylan Marando, the first candidate to sign up as a leadership candidate, is betting his experience as a policy advisor to former prime ministers and premiers.PoliticsJun 16
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Ontario Liberal leadership candidate vows to make health care more ‘competitive’Eric Lombardi, who launched his leadership bid last week, has been receiving support from a range of political voices, including many who say they've never voted LiberalPoliticsJun 15
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Ontario Liberal leadership candidates say legislative seat necessary for next leaderThe provincial party is holding its third leadership race in seven years after two successive leaders failed to gain a seat at Queen's Park, leading to their resignations.PoliticsMay 29
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Doug Ford receives gag gift from Ontario Liberals after private jet fiascoThe gag gift was intended to poke fun at Premier Doug Ford's purchase of a $28.9 million Challenger 650 private airplane for travel across North America.PoliticsJun 2
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Ford government scolded agency over cyber attack. Docs show it knew a month earlierAn Ontario Liberal MPP raised the alarm about a major ransomware attack suffered by one of Ontario Health atHome's key vendors last year.CanadaJun 16
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Nate Erskine-Smith’s appeal of Ontario Liberal nomination vote rejectedErskine-Smith was vying to represent the provincial Liberals in the upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection but did not win the party's nomination.CanadaMay 25
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Ontario Liberals to pick byelection candidate in heated raceOntario Liberals in Scarborough Southwest vote today on a byelection candidate as MP Nate Erskine-Smith eyes a possible leadership run.PoliticsMay 9
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Nate Erskine-Smith challenges Ontario Liberal nomination lossErskine-Smith was vying to represent the provincial party in the upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection ahead of an intended bid for the leadership of the party.PoliticsMay 12
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Erskine-Smith should prove if nomination contest was unfair: Interim Ontario Liberal leaderErskine-Smith claimed there were voter ID issues and he is raising the possibility of challenging the result. The party is standing behind the integrity of the race and the vote.PoliticsMay 11
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Nate Erskine-Smith loses bid for Ontario Liberal nomination; considers challengeNate Erskine-Smith narrowly lost his bid Saturday for the provincial Liberal nomination in an upcoming byelection. He says he now wants to review the result with his scrutineers.CanadaMay 10
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New poll puts leaderless Ontario Liberals ahead of Ford’s Progressive ConservativesThe leaderless Ontario Liberals have nudged ahead of the PCs, according to a new poll released after the premier's private jet reversal and changes to freedom-of-information laws.CanadaApr 29
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Ontario Liberals want newly elected MP Doly Begum to campaign in upcoming byelectionWhile Premier Doug Ford has yet to call the provincial byelection in Scarborough Southwest, Doly Begum, a former NDP MPP - is facing expectations to campaign for the Liberals.PoliticsApr 14
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When will Carney call 6 federal byelections? Not all at once, he saysCarney said in French he has not yet decided when the byelections will take place, but he does have to account for factors like the provincial election in Quebec in October.PoliticsJun 25
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Ontario education minister ‘clarifying’ students will be allowed to miss class for sportsNew attendance rules kick in next academic year, when attendance and participation will make up either 10 or 15 per cent of a final mark for students, depending on the grade.EducationJun 30
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Doug Ford pushes back on negative polling as some conservatives begin ‘contingency planning’While Ford has a comfortable three years remaining in his current mandate, recent polling has raised questions about how much runway the premier has left.PoliticsJun 24
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Ontario jail forced to take servers offline after suffering ‘breach’ of security systemsStaff at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., realized the jail had suffered a 'breach related to its security systems' sometime on June 1.CanadaJun 17
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Ford government mum on whether it will offer update on its 1.5M homes goalClose to three years ago, the Ford government began setting targets for the number of new homes in towns and cities around Ontario.PoliticsJun 22
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Ontario looking ‘very, very closely’ at rise in sports betting, gambling commercialsThe Stop Harmful Gambling Advertising Act, introduced by opposition MPPs in April, was defeated by the government in mid-May on second reading.PoliticsMay 28
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Ontario records steepest drop in labour force since 1976, excluding pandemicA new report from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario said the number of people in work dropped by 71,300 between January and March, a decline of 0.8 per cent.CanadaJun 3