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BY ERIC DOWD Someone tried to inject a spot of humour into the Ontario Oct. 10 election the other day and was threatened with a punch in the nose, and this may be another reason humour has almost disappeared from provincial politics.

Ontario’s Oct. 10 election is being shaped by two huge mistakes made by the parties that are the main contenders for government.

Predictions are flying the Ontario Oct. 10 election campaign will turn nasty. So what will the politicians be saying about each other? General elections also have grown steadily more aggressive.

The Ontario Liberals have a genius for throwing away elections at the last minute and are in danger of doing it again.

New Democrat leader Howard Hampton suddenly is saying nice things about Progressive Conservative leader John Tory, and they have revealed who he really thinks is heading first past the post on Oct. 10.

Premier Dalton McGuinty desperately needs an issue that can give him some upward momentum in the Oct. 10 election campaign and one has fallen into his lap like manna from heaven.

BY ERIC DOWD One sign Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty is in trouble is the way so many of his MPPs unexpectedly are refusing to run for him again in the Oct. 10 election.

The most common claim in Ontario’s Oct. 10 election campaign is only Liberals break promises, and it is as much a myth as the Earth being flat.

Journalists who cover the Ontario legislature should feel overjoyed one of their own has been named to the province’s top job of lieutenant governor, but the harsher reality is they are becoming a vanishing breed.

What could have been Ontario’s most controversial marriage in memory is going ahead surprisingly without a hitch.