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Toronto - The party that ruled Ontario for 50 of the last 65 years is down, but it is a mistake to think it is out. The Progressive Conservatives keep accumulating problems.

Toronto – Premier Dalton McGuinty is planning to end a longstanding tradition and it raises just a whiff of expectation he may he starting at last on a promise to bring change.

Toronto – Progressive Conservative MPPs in Ontario have been given a refresher course on how to be true Conservatives and clearly they are short of role models. Leader John Tory, whose position is in question after he lost the Oct.

Toronto - Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives have been conducting a supposed debate for four months on whether they should keep their leader who was defeated in the October election, but they must feel as uninformed and uncertain as when they starte

Toronto – The most bloodthirsty dictator of recent decades has died and some former Ontario premiers must be remembering the happier times they had together.

Toronto – One sign of how far Ontario’s once mighty Progressive Conservative party has fallen is the scarcity of candidates to lead it.

It is not every day a government loses $100 million of taxpayers’ money and says don’t worry, it could be worse -- but the Ontario Liberals are doing this and getting away with it.

The biggest con-job in recent Ontario politics was Premier Dalton McGuinty’s announcement of a new statutory holiday, Family Day (Feb. 18) and it is now turning into a family-size row. The Liberal premier said in the Oct.

Politicians in Ontario have to be noticing the way celebrities from the world of entertainment are able to draw attention to causes they take up, wondering how they can cash in on it.

Ontario’s cabinet ministers have been given clear warning if they get too old, they will be out of the door.