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Ontario Premier Says She Can’t Win Election

Joyce Grant — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 01:05:29 +0000

The current premier of Ontario says there will be a new premier after the election on June 7 and it most certainly won't be her.
That was a very surprising announcement.
Premier Kathleen Wynne leads the Ontario Liberal Party. She is one of three main candidates vying for the spot of premier in the upcoming election. The other two main candidates are Doug Ford Jr., who leads the Progressive Conservative (PC) party of Ontario and Andrea Horwath, who leads the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP).

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Canadians Elect Liberal Majority Government, Justin Trudeau as PM

Joyce Grant — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 01:24:43 +0000

Canadians will soon have a very different government in power.
In the federal election last week, the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, was defeated.

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Big “Wynne Win” Surprises Pollsters

Joyce Grant — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:27:42 +0000

It came as a big surprise: Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals were elected on Thursday night with a majority government.

The people who predict how elections will turn out didn’t see that coming.

Until the last days before the election, the odds were that either the Liberals would win a minority government or the PC party, led by Tim Hudak, would win.

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How Ontario’s Leaders Would Handle Education

Nancy Miller — Wed, 21 May 2014 03:06:25 +0000

On June 12, Ontario is having an election. Each of the main political parties has a different idea about how they would spend money on education in Ontario.

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Canada Gets A New Finance Minister

Nancy Miller — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:29:23 +0000

In February, Jim Flaherty, Canada’s Minister of Finance, announced that the country’s finances were in good shape when he gave the 2014 budget.

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Britain’s “Iron Lady” Dead At The Age Of 87

Nancy Miller — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:02:37 +0000

Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of England from 1979 to 1990. That was the longest time for any British prime minister since the early 19th century.

Thatcher was Britain’s only female prime minister and she was considered an important leader around the world.

On Monday Thatcher died of a stroke; she was 87 years old.

When she was Prime Minister, Thatcher was considered by most people to be very strong-willed. Her nickname was "The Iron Lady." Once when her own Conservative party members asked her to tone down her a hard decision, she said to them: ‘The lady’s not for turning.’

On the other hand, Thatcher had a vision for her country and she was loyal to it to the end.

She believed strongly in lowering government spending, letting private companies buy government agencies and letting companies compete with each other without government help.

When a terrorist bomb, meant for her, killed five people, she made a speech that evening telling her own party that the British would never give in to terrorism.

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