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Toronto – Premier Dalton McGuinty is missing opportunities to make the legislature work better for MPPs and the public – he is too busy looking after himself.

Toronto – A former Ontario cabinet minister who committed serious gun offences has escaped with not even a slap on the wrist, but more of a pat on the back.

Toronto – Some MPPs are marked as people to watch the moment they set foot in the legislature and there is one of them there now.

Toronto – Premier Dalton McGuinty has acknowledged he has mild concern at China’s abuse of human rights as grudgingly as if his teeth were being extracted and some of his party’s former MPPs must be turning over in their graves.

Toronto — A newspaper reporter covering the Ontario legislature half-a-century ago became somewhat inebriated, as others described it, and unable to write his story.

Unusual circumstances are combining to give Premier Dalton McGuinty the most comfortable ride of any Ontario premier in three decades. Sometimes he must feel he is running the province from the back seat of a Rolls Royce.

Toronto – Racism in Ontario, which many believe is declining, is hanging in tenaciously and even finding new targets, and Ontario’s Liberal government is not doing all it can to counter it.

Toronto – Ontario Progressive Conservative leader John Tory is suggesting he could run government better because he once ran a cable TV company, but a lot of people will doubt it.

Toronto – The most underrated politician in Ontario in 50 years has died – still without being given the recognition he deserves. Donald C.

Toronto – Premier Dalton McGuinty has decided there are two different rules for those who threaten anyone in public life – one for politicians and the other for the rest of us.