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Ontario has hung a portrait of another former premier in a legislature corridor where few will see it, but is not doing much otherwise to remember those who served in its top job.

Ontario’s Liberals have lost their lead approaching the last lap in the Oct. 10 election, but it should not be concluded they have lost the race.

Premier Dalton McGuinty and his Liberals are trying to get their campaign for the Oct. 10 election off the ground particularly by digging up two former premiers from their graves.

The leaders of Ontario’s three main political parties have as much colour as plastic wrap and this may be hindering the chances of any of them winning a majority in the Oct. 10 election.

A Liberal woman minister has hit New Democratic Party leader Howard Hampton, it can safely be said , below the belt in the Ontario legislature.

Any contest to pick the nicest guy in the Ontario legislature probably would wind up choosing Ernie Parsons. Parsons has been Liberal MPP for a riding centred on Belleville for the last eight years and is not much known by the general public.

Most Ontario elections are won long before the campaign buses start rolling, but the Oct. 10 election looks like it may go down to the wire.

Skirmishes between Ontario’s political parties less than six months before an election are being called a phony war, but don’t tell that to Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty.

Premier Dalton McGuinty sat in a Tim Hortons restaurant for an hour the other day and no one noticed him.

The rules on whether Ontario cabinet ministers who slip up can be forced to resign are almost as elastic as Spandex athletic pants and often can be shaped to whatever best fits a government.