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Not much change promised for Ontario's municipalities this election

Ontario’s provincial leaders are promising a lot this election. It’s what they’re not promising that is more troubling to me.

I listened to the leaders of the three parties speak at the AMO convention this week, and heard a lot of promises, a lot of justification, some blame, some excuses and some puffery. But for everything we're...



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Election results for 2011

Conservative: 167 (majority and a stunning win, 39.6% of the popular vote)
NDP: 102 (now the official opposition for the 1st time, 30.6% of the popular vote)
Liberal: 34 (a huge drop and a crushing defeat for Ignatieff and the Libs; 18.9%)
Bloc Quebecois: 4 (collapse, and not even an official party now; 6%)
Green: 1 (first victory, but popular...



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A twist in the Simcoe-Grey campaigns

The election campaign in Simcoe-Grey will likely go to the Conservative candidate, but that victory is not quite so cut and dried as it might have seemed. Incumbent and former Conservative party member, now "independent Conservative" candidate, Helena Guergis, might have some outside help that will certainly raise her profile and could...



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Amazing accomplishments

ALTHOUGH I'VE BEEN A WRITER all my adult life, I have never been very good at writing fiction. I've tried. I've tried many times. I've read and studied fiction, taken courses, joined writing associations. I just don't seem to have the knack.

The writer of...



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The Long Form Kiss Goodnight

You'd think, from reading the media reports on Canadians' opposition to the government over the Long Form Census that Stephen Harper's Conservatives were taking governance lessons from Collingwood Council. As in: Governance 101: How to Ignore Public Opinion.

This week,...



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