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Progressive parties are focusing their attacks not just on the incumbent Progressive Conservatives but also against each other. As election day nears, and the PCs lead in polls, some suggest the real election campaign is taking place between the NDP and Liberals for second place. Matthew Bingley reports.

The official start to the Ontario election campaign is just weeks away and although the approval rating of the government remains strong, high inflation and the sixth wave of the pandemic may be causing vote support to dip. As Erica Vella reports, new Ipsos polling done exclusively for Global News shows the Liberals are now...

The PCs release a budget as a campaign document, while the NDP take the wraps off its campaign platform. Plus the latest census info shows a dramatic shift in demographics for older Canadians. All that and more on this week’s edition on Focus Ontario.

Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown said Saturday the party would make the “largest mental health commitment in Canadian provincial history” of $1.9 billion over 10 years.

After unveiling a plan that includes tax cuts for the middle class, child care refunds for low-income households and big dollars towards mental health services and transit, the PC Party is on the campaign trail drumming up support for June. As Shallima Maharaj reports, while leader Patrick Brown insists the numbers add up, there’s concern...

Ontario PC Party Leader Doug Ford said Monday during a rally that the PCs were a united party and that unity is the Liberals’ ‘worst nightmare.’

Ontario PC Deputy Leaders Sylvia Jones and Steve Clark said the resignation of Patrick Brown had not lost the party the June 7 election, instead describing the resignation as a “hiccup” in the party’s campaign.

Fri, Jan 26: With under five months to go before Ontarians head to the polls, who will represent the PCs is still up in the air. Shallima Maharaj speaks to the man who was briefly appointed interim leader after a Friday morning caucus meeting, and sums up the whirlwind day that was.

Mon, Jan 29: From his mother’s basement in Etobicoke, Doug Ford announced he’ll join the race to lead Ontario’s PC Party into the June 7 election. As Shallima Maharaj reports, it comes at a time when the party is faced with uncertainty and scrutiny after two major resignations.

At the annual Manning Networking Conference held in Ottawa, Ontario Progressive Conservative party leadership candidate Christine Elliott said that if Patrick Brown can clear his name, he should be able to run for the party in the next election. Patrick Brown resigned as Ontario PC leader late last month after being accused of sexual misconduct.

Newly elected leader of the Ontario PCs Doug Ford sat down with John Oakley on 640 Toronto Monday. He addressed a new poll suggesting the PCs will form a majority government in the upcoming election despite Ford’s unpopularity.

This morning, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was approached to give comment on MPP Amanda Simard resigning from PC caucus, and he said repeatedly that his government is “solid” and “united” despite losing a second member of the team.

The PC government announced on Thursday it would be consolidating its provincial health agencies and Local Health Integration Networks into a single agency in order to reduce the “bloated health care” bureaucracy.

It looks like a race to the finish with just two weeks until Ontario votes for premier. The NDP has tied things up with the PC Party, as the Liberals lag behind. Eric Sorensen reports.

An interesting race is unfolding for Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, where PC MPP Steve Clark faces off against Liberal candidate and Brockville Mayor David Henderson.

The Ontario PCs have an early lead as results in the provincial election come in.

On the eve of the Ontario election, an Ipsos poll finds that province’s PCs pulling into majority territory over the NDP. But as Eric Sorensen reports, there’s a margin of volatility when a disgruntled electorate is unhappy with its options.

A confident Doug Ford hit the campaign trail with one day to go in the area of Ontario that may just win him a majority government. Jamie Mauracher has more.

Ottawa quietly lifts its advisory warning against non-essential travel, but still needs travellers to get a PCR test before entering Canada. Why that requirement is staying for now. Ontario sets a new timeline to lift all of its public health restrictions, and it can’t come soon enough for some people. Plus, veteran actor Alec Baldwin...

Ontario’s chief medical health officer Dr. Kieran Moore said Thursday that starting Friday, Dec. 31, the province would begin offering publicly-funded PCR testing for only “vulnerable” individuals with “significant medical issues” who are symptomatic or at risk of developing COVID-19, and for those who work and live in high-risk settings such as hospitals, long-term care...