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A Speaker of the legislature has lost his job because of allegations he favoured his own party for the first time in history, but many others have been threatened.

You may not be able to find a doctor to help save your life, but you can get one to make your lips more kissable in a heartbeat.

Premier Dalton McGuinty will be tempted to govern as if he is some sort of conquering hero, but he would be smarter to throw in a dash of humility. On Nov.

Former finance minister Greg Sorbara has become a hero by quitting the second most powerful job in Ontario and saying he would rather be with his family, but this may not be the whole story.

Premier Dalton McGuinty is getting the honeymoon he never had, and it is putting new spring in his step.

Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are being uncharacteristically generous to their defeated leader John Tory and this indicates they have a lot of problems.

Defeated Progressive Conservative leader John Tory is receiving a lot of encouragement from many quarters as he tries to hold on to his job, but he will have trouble persuading his own party to persevere with him.

Premier Dalton McGuinty has won everything in an election but respect. The Liberal premier has a second successive majority government, which is rare in Ontario, and vanquished the leaders of the opposition parties so they are as good as gone.

This is the only Ontario election in memory in which a party with a reasonable chance of winning threw it away by introducing a policy voters found totally unacceptable and the big question is why it did so.

What always promised to be a rough ride for the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario’s Oct.10 election is becoming a train wreck.