Kathleen Wynne

Andrea Horwath says it's a "new beginning" for the Ontario NDP, now the province's official Opposition party after Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives won a majority government.

Ford isn’t a stable politician in a solid party, writes Nora Loreto. The party has deep divisions that can be exploited by progressive social activists.

Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne resigned immediately after the Progressive Conservative party's clear victory in the Ontario election Thursday, declaring "I am passing the torch to the next generation."

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath handily won her Hamilton-Centre riding Thursday night, though hopes of being Ontario's next premier were dashed just half an hour after polls closed.

The voting process, like the campaign that preceded it, was not without complications.Voting hours in several locations were extended anywhere from 20 minutes to four hours beyond the 9 p.m. closing time in the rest of the province.

For decades, Grassy Narrows had to deal with deadly toxins released by industry, as successive governments looked the other way. It's an issue that has persisted while all three parties, the PCs, the New Democrats and the Liberals, were in power.

In May, National Observer invited the leaders of all four major provincial political parties to share their thoughts on the Ontario election by submitting opinion pieces. The day before the election, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner discuss their visions for change.

Support among seniors for the Progressive Conservative party has slipped during the campaign for the June 7 Ontario election, says CARP, an advocacy group for older citizens. Their support for the NDP has doubled. Health care is their No. 1 issue and 95 per cent in a poll plan to vote.

Days after conceding her loss in Thursday's provincial election, Premier Kathleen Wynne continued Monday to implore Ontarians to avoid a majority government which would sustain the “longest strike in Canadian university history.”

​Ontarians are set to cast their ballots in the province’s election in just a few days—and voters, especially conservatives, need to ask themselves what they expect from a leader.

Throwing in the towel as Kathleen Wynne has in a request to hold the balance of power is cynical to say the very least. But it may be the best thing that’s happened to Horwath this whole campaign.

“We have a strong environmental message,” Doug Ford told reporters at a tightly-scripted news conference in Ottawa. “People want clean lakes, they want clean rivers, they want clean air and we’re going to make sure that we deliver that.”

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne on Saturday conceded she would lose her job running the province in the June 7 election but urged voters to back Liberal Party candidates to ensure neither the Progressive Conservative’s Doug Ford nor NDP’s Andrea Horwath win a majority.

“They have cajoled Trump, they have soothed his ego, they’ve played to his apparently inexhaustible vanity," Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said about U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday.

The Ontario election is a fork in the road for Toronto, but only the NDP has offered a map.