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Cost-cutter/big spender. Businessman/everyman. Populist/moderate. Who the hell is Doug Ford?

Ontario's Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford has rebranded himself as a big-spending man of the people in the lead-up to the June 2 election.

By Jessica McDiarmid | News | May 30th 2022

As Torontonians are priced out of the city by a surging real estate market, they look north for new homes in North Bay, Ont., on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (Allison Hannaford/Canada’s National Observer).

Soaring housing prices hit small town Ontario hard

Ann says she would like to move but simply can’t afford it. A comparable apartment would cost nearly $1,000 more per month than she pays now, and her rent would exceed her fixed income. As it is, Ann spends nearly half her income on housing.

By Allison Hannaford | News | May 28th 2022

Ontario Greens: Little party, big voice

The press releases from the Ontario Green Party HQ gush forth, as they have for months, long before the Ontario election campaign officially began.

By Jessica McDiarmid | News | May 28th 2022

Doug Ford goes to NDP land

An airplane hangar is a very large place, one that is difficult to fill with people, and even more difficult to have appear full with only a couple hundred of them. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford closed out Thursday with a rally “to get it done” at a CargoJet hangar that abuts the airport in Hamilton, a traditionally labour-minded town and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath’s home turf.

By Jessica McDiarmid | News, New News | May 27th 2022

Durham votes to develop housing on 9,000 acres of farmland

Councillors representing the Regional Municipality of Durham voted in favour of a developer-backed plan to build housing on what is now farmland in spite of vociferous opposition.

By Jessica McDiarmid | News | May 26th 2022

The remains of the roof of a hardware store that lifted off and crashed into neighbouring houses during a major storm is seen spread across residences in the community of Hammond in Clarence-Rockland, Ont., on May 23, 2022. Photo by The Canadian Press

Saturday's storm death toll hits 10 as Ontario and Quebec survey damage

Power outages caused by the powerful and deadly storm that swept across Ontario and Quebec on Saturday, May 21, 2022, are stretching into another day, as hydro providers warned customers they could be waiting even longer for things to be fully restored.

By The Canadian Press | News | May 24th 2022