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Ontario has a premier and opposition party leader so like each other they could be twins.

Speaking of turncoats ? and many are after Belinda Stronach switched federal parties ?-Ontario legislators paid tribute recently to the most notorious of them all. Stronach, who changed once, was a model of steadfastness and loyalty compared to J.

Premier Dalton McGuinty is trying to give himself a new name, but it is not exactly what others had in mind. The Liberal premier wants to be known as ?The Education Premier,? which he thinks would recognize his efforts in that important area.

Ontario?s provincial parties are calculating the federal Liberals will do badly in an election and showing it with their feet.

Politicians can fall a long way and Ontarians have been given two reminders of it.

If Ontario?s Progressive Conservatives were a married couple, they would seek counselling. They have a new leader and ambitions to win an election in two years, but just can?t seem to get along with each other.

Ontario?s Liberals have finally discovered something it seemed they would never learn ? they can stand up to their domineering federal party.

A new biography of John Robarts, Progressive Conservative premier from 1961-71, focuses almost as much on the excessive drinking of himself and his first wife and fights with his second as it does his political achievements.

Ontario?s Liberals are big on protecting residents, and there are signs at the same time that they are protecting themselves.

No new MPP in memory has attracted as much attention as Progressive Conservative Party Leader John Tory, but it still does not guarantee him quick success.