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The Ford government is touting its $200 rebate cheques as a key affordability measure, while the Ontario Liberals promise a middle-class tax cut.

Election laws in Ontario mean that every party receives a subsidy for votes they received in the previous election to offer some guaranteed funding for political parties.

Just days after the party held a late-summer caucus retreat, chiefs of staff in the Ford government received an email outlining the expectation for a donations blitz.

Demands for change have been growing all year, with a visible rise in homelessness encampments held up by local leaders as evidence the current formula is failing. 

René Legacy's second quarter update released today shows a worsening situation since the last update in August, which pegged the deficit at $27.6 million.

Everything voters need to know about the Novia Scotia Conservative, Liberal and NDP leaders and their political and professional careers and families.

On Nov. 5, a long and fractious U.S. presidential race will conclude with massive ramifications for the Ontario economy, where roughly 81 per cent of exports go to the States.

Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria was asked repeatedly on Thursday about plans Premier Doug Ford had previously indicated were underway to buy Highway 407.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says his party will reduce HST in the province next year, dropping to nine per cent from 10 per cent.

Ontario is set to unveil its fall economic statement on Wednesday, with details of the cost of alcohol liberalization and $200 rebate cheques for almost everyone in the province.

Kaleed Rasheed won't run for another term in office, an announcement that comes more than year after he left the Progressive Conservative caucus over a Greenbelt-adjacent scandal.

Party veteran Andrew Bevan will serve as campaign director for the Liberals in the next federal election. Bevan held key roles on former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne's staff.

Many Liberal MPs unhappy with their party's performance say change can only happen with a new leader, better communications and a plan to drop unpopular policies.

'Focus Ontario,' Global News' weekly Ontario politics show, returns ahead of the legislature's fall sitting. The finance minister is the show's first guest.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford handed three MPPs minor promotions this week that will top up their salaries by $16,000 per year. He said on Friday some elected officials are underpaid.

With the spectre of a possible early election – Premier Doug Ford has not ruled one out – the event gives politicians the chance to mingle with members of those communities.

During a conversation with AM 640, Doug Ford suggested he had looked at an opposition-led plan to buy back part or all of Highway 407 but opted to tunnel under the 401 instead.

Ontario's new Liberal leader took aim at the premier over the weekend as she tested out a new slogan in a campaign-style speech at her party's annual general meeting.

The Progressive Conservatives have won a provincial byelection in eastern Ontario, though the result was much closer than the riding has seen in the past two elections.

A joke about a deceased Liberal supporter has landed New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs in hot water as the election campaign is now underway.