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Premier Dalton McGuinty is being given an easy ride on an overseas trip selling Ontario products that will give him a bonus a lot more useful than frequent flyer points.

Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals are indicating they will try to label Progressive Conservative leader John Tory as rich in the 2007 election, hoping this will hurt him, but they shouldn’t bank on it.

The city of Guelph, with close to 110,000 residents, has possibly the most attractive downtown of any its size in Ontario – but not on Saturday nights.

Ontario has had a succession of premiers who talked a good game of standing up for human rights, but they have been put to shame by an unlikely, far-right Conservative prime minister.

Less than a year before an Ontario election (Oct. 4, 2007), the opposition parties are not hitting on the right issue or combination of issues to drive out Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government – but it should not feel safe.

Ontario has had its own version of Peter MacKay calling former girlfriend Belinda Stronach a dog, although it may not have had quite as much bite.

Ontario’s political parties have bidden a fond farewell to the legislature’s highest-ranking unelected official, which is a lot more than they were able to do for the last holder of the office.

Ontario’s Liberals have been advised to make their message short and sweet in an election next year.

When an Ontario government-appointed judicial inquiry issues its findings soon in the 1995 shooting death of an unarmed native protester at Ipperwash Provincial Park, it will have some tough comments on police.

Ontario’s most pugnacious politician has pummeled his way to deputy premier, but don’t place any bets he is the next premier.