Blog
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. |
Blog
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. |
News
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. |
Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| Kathleen Wynne broke a number of taboos last week in the Ontario election. Perhaps most surprising was her defiance of right-wing orthodoxy claiming the public won't vote for higher taxes. |
Blog
Stephen Kimber
| Did he quit? Was he suspended? Does their contretemps even matter to the post-Ontario-election future of the current incarnation of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia? |
News
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. |
Columnists
Murray Dobbin
| Canadians have been sold a bill of goods about there "being no alternative" to small, mean, punitive and arrogant government. Kathleen Wynne has the opportunity to take a different path. |
Columnists
Hennessy's Index
| At 52.1 per cent, the percentage of voters who cast a ballot in the 2014 Ontario election is up from the province's 2011 historic low of 48 per cent. How does it fit into voter turnout across Canada? |
News
Mick Sweetman
| The Ontario election on Thursday saw voters re-elect Kathleen Wynne's Liberal Party, with a majority government, and reject the possibility of a hard-right Conservative government. |
Columnists
Ish Theilheimer
| Whether you liken Andrea Horwath's 2014 campaign to the Iraq invasion, Custer's Last Stand, or the Charge of the Policy-Light Brigade, it ended, predictably, in confusion and slaughter. |
Blog
rabble staff
| It's election day in Ontario, so Ontarians, this one is for you. If you live elsewhere, maybe send this roundup of rabble's election coverage and features to them? |
Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| Tim Hudak's folksy persona has tended to obscure two key things -- he remains committed to anti-union legislation borrowed from Arkansas and he is capable of a cynical dishonesty that is breathtaking. |