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Posted by Greater Sudbury Northern Life Toronto – A by-election in cottage country northeast of Toronto a decade and a half ago started a revival of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party that quickly put it in government.

Posted by Greater Sudbury Northern Life Toronto – Many stories are being told about Ontario’s most revered hockey arena, but no one has mentioned the time a cabinet minister blocked its powerful media baron owner from adding more lucrative seats and

Posted by Greater Sudbury Northern Life This recession that is changing so much is developing its own language. Even news media, which are rarely at a loss for words, are running out of ways to describe it.

Posted by Greater Sudbury Northern Life Ontario’s economy is going down the drain and Premier Dalton McGuinty and his Liberal government could go down with it.

Posted by Greater Sudbury Northern Life Toronto – The nastiest battle in Ontario politics is also the oddest — two of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ministers are fighting against the folks back home and it could cost their party a power base in t

Toronto – Women running to become leader of a political party in Ontario have an uphill battle, but one has been given a surprise lift.

Posted by Sudbury Northern Life Toronto — Ontarians are lamenting they have no orators as spellbinding as Barack Obama, but they did, and are not making them any more.

Posted by Sudbury Northern Life Toronto – There is another debate on leadership going on in Ontario and it is nowhere as dull as some make out.

Sudbury Northern Life Toronto – How much humiliation can a political party take? Ontario’s struggling Progressive Conservative MPPs have had much more than their share with their federal party refusing them the Senate seat they went down on their kne

Sudbury Northern Life Columnist Eric Dowd Toronto – Members of the legislature often feel the urge to write poems — this time of year brings out the best or worst in them — and one has come up with possibly the world’s first about an economic recessi