Anyone who hoped Dalton McGuinty’s governing Ontario Liberals were in for a setback in the St. Paul’s by-election in midtown Toronto yesterday will be disappointed. The Liberal candidate, Dr. Eric Hoskins won handily with 13,192 votes. His Conservative challenger Sue-Ann Levy managed only 7,851 votes, compared with 4,677 for Julian Heller of the NDP, and […]
The accident-prone Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (or just OLG to its friends) has been causing the Liberal government of Canada’s most populous province further grief. And now some heads have rolled. Our resident Ontario historian, Randall White, has prepared a full if inevitably still quick and dirty report on the deeper background. See the […]
[UPDATED SEPTEMBER 4.] Yesterday Ontario finance minister Dwight Duncan announced at a press conference that he had accepted the resignations of the entire board of directors of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. A new interim board of senior public servants has been appointed. And it has dismissed the OLG chief executive officer Kelly McDougald […]
I never voted for his party. But Haroon Siddiqui’s report on the recent commemoration of “Bland” Bill Davis’s 80th birthday at the York Club, in today’s Sunday edition of the Toronto Star, reminded me of how much I came to admire him (to my surprise), when I worked as an Ontario civil servant in the […]
According to Ontario politics columnist Jim Coyle, in the Toronto Star this past Monday, today is (more or less officially, it seems) Lake Superior Day. (“A few months back … Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Mike Brown won unanimous support in the Legislature for his resolution to establish the third Sunday in July …Â as Lake Superior Day.”) […]
