Welcome to the second in an installment of blog posts by LISPOP affiliates on different aspects of the Ontario provincial election. Our second post is by Wilfrid Laurier University political scientist Laura Pin. Ontario residents are going to the polls in […]
Doug Ford and Pierre Poilievre are very different Conservative cats, but they have one thing in common this spring. Both are running classic front-runner campaigns: maintain tight control at all times; minimize risks; avoid unscripted appearances; take advantage of friendly […]
Welcome to the first in an installment of blog posts by LISPOP affiliates on different aspects of the Ontario provincial election. Our first post is by University of Waterloo political scientist Anna Esselment. There are numerous aspects about elections that […]
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, or so the saying goes. But if the ill wind is the re-energizing and intensifying of the destructive confrontation over abortion in the United States in the wake of the leaked draft […]
If the Ontario’s New Democrats and Liberals were to follow the example of their federal brethren and unite in a centre-left front against the Progressive Conservatives, the Doug Ford government would be overwhelmingly defeated in the provincial election on June […]
The campaign for the June 2 provincial election in Ontario will not begin officially until the Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell dissolves the legislature and the election writ is issued. The 2022 budget of Progressive Conservative government will come first on […]
Tuesday is the deadline for entries in the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race, version 2022, and a realist, casting a beady eye over the field, might well opine that, regardless of which candidate is declared leader when the preferential […]
The new centre-left alliance of Liberals and New Democrats faced its first hurdle last Thursday when Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presented her 2022 budget. The as-yet unbaptized governing entity (for some reason, it hasn’t embraced my suggestion to […]
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