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Doug Ford speaks to a group. Photo: Doug Ford/Flickr
Doug Ford knows better than to identify the victims of his spending cuts
Linda McQuaig | Doug Ford learned a key lesson observing the crushing electoral defeat of his predecessor: never reveal where the bodies are to be buried.
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Ontario's move against the BDS movement is an attack on free speech
J. Baglow | Tim Hudak wants to suppress the BDS movement in Ontario. And the Ontario legislature may oblige him.
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Ontario seeks to crush criticism of Israel through a BDS campaign of its own
Nora Loreto | Tim Hudak and Mike Colle's epic overreach in Bill 202 cannot pass.
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Playing the progressive card -- Trudeau's cynical, but clever, 'left shift'
Michael Laxer | Justin Trudeau is seeking to outflank the NDP on the left -- and Tom Mulcair is making it rather easy for him to do just that.
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Zombie Confidence Fairy finally rears its head in 2015 Alberta Campaign of Fear
David J. Climenhaga | Albertans contemplating voting NDP should remember, as FDR advised Americans at a moment far more dire than this: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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This labour campaign stopped Tim Hudak. Next is Stephen Harper.
Sid Ryan | The Ontario election did solidify one thing: Canada's politicized labour movement is ready to defend the rights of workers. It stopped Tim Hudak and now it's taking aim at Stephen Harper.
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Amnesia conveniently breaks out among Ontario party leaders
Gerry Caplan | A strange case of amnesia has afflicted the provincial political parties in Ontario. Some attribute the malady to a common virus for which there is no known antidote: acute political opportunism.
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Kyle Harrietha
Big byelection in Fort McMurray? Naw, as goes Macleod, so goes Alberta…
David J. Climenhaga | As goes Macleod, so goes Alberta. And if Stephen Harper sent an airfleet of F-35s to drop atomic bombs on Macleod, the survivors would crawl out of the rubble and vote Conservative.
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Breaking down Liberal austerity: A detailed analysis of Budget 2014
Alex Hunsberger | The defeat of Tim Hudak in the Ontario election was one battle. Now the second battle we're facing is a scandal-plagued Liberal government and a "progressive" budget.
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Red in Central Canada, blue in Ottawa an immutable rule? Don't bet on it!
David J. Climenhaga | The conditions that made Red-Blue voting axiomatic in Canada no longer exist. This is not good news for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Calgary-based Cordilleran Petro-elite.
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Strategic voting plays big role in stopping Hudak's Conservatives
Nick Fillmore | Nick Fillmore weighs in on the Ontario election, strategic voting and describes his experiences volunteering with a campaign whose efforts went straight to stopping the Hudak agenda... and won.
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Waitin' for the end of the world … Hear, O Ontario! Mr. Manning will be with you momentarily
David J. Climenhaga | The Seventh Trumpet is about to sound. The Prophet Preston will be down momentarily from the mountain, or, leastways, the Seventh Floor of the Manning Centre.