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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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Toronto Elects John Tory As Its Next Mayor

Joyce Grant — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 02:51:47 +0000

Torontonians have elected John Tory as the next Mayor of Toronto.

Tory won with more than 40 per cent of the vote.

He beat Doug Ford, who came second with 34 per cent of the vote. Olivia Chow came third with just 23 per cent of the vote.

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Toronto Mayoral Campaign Remains Interesting

Joyce Grant — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:57:06 +0000

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During a campaign, should politicians always have to tell the truth or should they be allowed to fudge the truth a little to get people to vote for them?

Journalist John Lorinc thinks they should have to tell the truth.

What do you think?

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Toronto’s Confusing And Surprising Mayoral Race

Joyce Grant — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:57:04 +0000

Politics doesn’t get much more interesting--or confusing--than the Mayoral election that is happening in Toronto.

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