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Toronto voters re-elect Olivia Chow as mayor of Canada’s largest cityUnofficial results showed incumbent Olivia Chow ahead of her main challenger, Brad Bradford, and 50 other candidates in Monday’s municipal election.PoliticsOct 26
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Blind voter argues at tribunal hearing that his accessible voting rights were deniedDavid Lepofsky says he had tried to vote using Elections Ontario’s assistive voting terminal for voters with disabilities, but a poll worker inadvertently saw who he voted for.PoliticsOct 5
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‘Call them out’: AI data centres becoming an Ontario municipal election issueStop the Datacentre, a grassroots advocacy group, is looking for more signatories before the municipal elections are held later this month.PoliticsOct 16
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After election victory, Chow to face budget pressure and new deal with OntarioNegotiations with the province to help relieve Toronto's budget pressures loomed over Olivia Chow's election victory, as she vowed to be the "mayor for everyone."PoliticsOct 27
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Why some Ontario voters are turning to AI chatbots for 2026 municipal electionsDuring Quebec's provincial election, an estimated 40 per cent of voters turned to AI chatbots and received false and outdated information about the election, researchers said.PoliticsOct 24
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Carney calls 6 byelections for December in Ontario, Quebec and SaskatchewanBy-elections will be held in three Quebec ridings, two in Ontario and a sixth in Saskatchewan after their MPs left to return to previous jobs or run in another election.Canada2 hours
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Why Toronto’s municipal election turnout beat the provincial averageUnofficial results collected by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario show 46 per cent of those eligible to vote in Toronto did so in this week's municipal election.PoliticsOct 31
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Elections Ontario closes complaint into Progressive Conservative MPP over newspaper adsGrewal unseated the NDP’s Gurratan Singh more than four years ago in Brampton East, winning the riding again in the 2025 snap election.CanadaSep 17
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Ontario sees modest gains in municipal election competition, report showsNearly one in four mayors, reeves and other heads of council in Ontario have been acclaimed, down from the previous two election years.PoliticsSep 9
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Pickering nuclear reactors start coming off-line for massive refurbishmentAn Ontario nuclear plant is beginning a massive refurbishment project, as Doug Ford's government looks to lean heavily on nuclear energy to serve the province's electricity needs.CanadaSep 21
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As deadline looms for Ontario municipal elections candidates, some seats uncontestedWith the window to run in this year's Ontario municipal elections about to close, observers and advocates are paying attention those who have and haven't signed up.PoliticsAug 20
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Nominations to run in Ontario’s fall municipal elections set to closeA clearer picture of the choices Ontarians will face at the ballot box is set to emerge Friday afternoon as nominations for the fall municipal elections come to a close.PoliticsAug 21
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Fewer people running for trustee in some of Ontario’s supervised school boardsNew legislation has reduced the role of trustees, including cutting budget responsibilities at English-language boards, and mostly removing their role in central bargaining.PoliticsAug 18
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Early voter turnout down slightly for 2 of Ontario’s 3 byelectionsFigures released by Elections Ontario track the number of early ballots cast in Scarborough Southwest, Hamilton East-Stoney Creek and York-Simcoe.PoliticsAug 31
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Why some Canadian website maps show ‘Lake America’ instead of Lake OntarioThe issue first arose after several websites including Hydro One, Elections Canada, Infrastructure Ontario and others showed Lake America on their maps.CanadaAug 31
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Ontario’s order for new subway trains could be hit by Canadian counter-tariffsThe retaliatory tariffs could apply to self-driving, electric trains ordered by the Ford government for the Ontario Line that will be built south of the border.EconomyAug 26
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Diplomacy or ‘interference’? U.S. warns Canadian officials as midterms nearU.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s list of perceived Canadian “foreign interference” looks more like pointed public diplomacy to experts.CanadaOct 22
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Doug Ford says Republicans might ‘pull the carpet’ under Trump if midterms are lostAs the mid-term elections draw closer, Ford is dipping a toe into American politics, stating that the Democrats might be able to flip the Senate and House of Representatives.PoliticsOct 14
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Trustees in supervised school boards won’t be sworn in after election: Ford governmentGovernment source told Global News that trustees in supervised school boards "will not be sworn in" until a board meeting officially takes place.PoliticsOct 19
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Horwath among incumbents ousted across Greater Toronto and Hamilton AreaSeveral mayoral incumbents in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area have lost their jobs while others are heading back to city hall.CanadaOct 26