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Three years after leaving office, Dalton McGuinty will be the toast of...
The Ontario Liberals will celebrate former premier Dalton McGuinty on Tuesday night. Tyler Anderson/National PostOntario Premier Dalton McGuinty hugs his wife Terri after announcing that he will...
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Chris Selley: McGuinty’s legacy viewed through rose-tinted spectacles as...
Ain’t no flies on Dalton McGuinty. Just over three years since he scurried from the Ontario Premier’s Office with cartoon stink clouds chasing behind him and copies of his toe-curling apologia at No. 6...
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Kathleen Wynne has it backwards. ‘Doing nothing’ would have saved Ontario...
Ontario premiers have a weak spot for pithy little slogans they can use to brush away troublesome matters. “There’s never a wrong time to do the right thing,” Dalton McGuinty loved to say whenever...
View ArticleB.C. Liberals rehire ex-McGuinty aide still facing criminal charges in...
VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberal Party has rehired Laura Miller to the role of executive director, despite Miller facing criminal charges of breach of trust and mischief in Ontario. “Our...
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OPP investigating allegations that Ontario government officials illegally...
The Ontario Provincial Police has launched another investigation into allegations that provincial government officials illegally destroyed documents concerning an aborted contract to supply electricity...
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NDP demands a public inquiry into new energy contract allegations rattling...
The Liberals’ handling of energy contracts has been been such a disaster that Ontario needs a public inquiry to sort the mess out, New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath charged at Queen’s Park on...
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Kelly McParland: In Wynne’s Ontario, watchdogs are for muzzling
Ontario’s Liberal government has a problem with watchdogs. Like all grown-up democratic governments, it recognizes the need to have independent agencies tasked with keeping an eye on its activities....
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Wynne says Liberals will co-operate with investigation into Pan Am executives...
TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne promises her government will co-operate with an investigation by Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner into the deletion of computer hard drives by executives...
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Kelly McParland: Wynne Liberals lead Ontario down Michigan’s path to pain
There is good reason to be gloomy about a new study contrasting Ontario’s prolonged stagnation to recent signs of revival across the border in Michigan state. One is the simple embarrassment of being...
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Kelly McParland: Patrick Brown pays the price of Kathleen Wynne’s failures
You may not have noticed, but Kathleen Wynne had to concede another government snafu this week. After months of denials, stonewalling and self-justification about its practice of demanding hefty...
View ArticleAndrew Coyne: Object to Kellie Leitch’s focus on Canadian values, but not for...
Opening the leaders’ debate in the 2007 Ontario election, Dalton McGuinty got straight to the point. “When I travel the world on behalf of Ontarians,” he said, “the first thing they say is why have I...
View ArticleMatt Gurney: The ongoing shame of Caledonia
Ontarians have long known that the provincial Liberals, under then-premier Dalton McGuinty, sold out the interests of law-abiding citizens in the community of Caledonia, rather than be forced to...
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Kelly McParland: Sinking Ontario Liberals are reduced to hoping Tories...
An odd little poll turned up the other day. Even odder, that is, than most political polls, such as the ones indicating Justin Trudeau remains the most popular party leader in Canada, which should be...
View ArticleChristine Van Geyn: Ontario’s price on carbon will do for home heating prices...
There’s a well-known anecdote that describes how if a frog is thrown into boiling water, it will jump out. But if the frog is put in cold water that is slowly brought to a boil, it will not perceive...
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Kelly McParland: Wynne admits that breaking Hydro was a mistake. Ontarians...
Kathleen Wynne has admitted it was a “mistake” to so radically reshape Ontario’s power industry that people have to decide between buying food or paying their electricity bill. Even more, she has...
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Kelly McParland: John Key’s resignation is as an example to Canadian...
I’m willing to bet that most Canadians had never heard of John Key before they read today that he’s stepping down as prime minister of New Zealand. If they gave the news the usual cursory glance, they...
View ArticleRex Murphy: Cherish your suffering, Ontario; Premier Wynne’s green gods know...
It cannot have escaped the attention of many that Ontario is most unsettled these days. That its industries are anxious, its debt colossal, its citizens not in a pleasant mood. Ontario is in a lot of...
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Ex-Ontario AG renews push to repeal ‘humiliating’ panhandling laws that...
An Ontario law against aggressive panhandlers and so-called squeegee kids penalizes the poor and should be scrapped, says a former attorney general who admits he failed to do so when he had the chance....
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Chris Selley: Kathleen Wynne is the Liberals’ greatest asset, not their...
The question of Kathleen Wynne’s future as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party made its way to the public airwaves this week in the form a panel discussion on TVO’s The Agenda. Host Steve Paikin asked...
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Since Wynne became premier number of teachers on Sunshine List nearly...
The number of Ontario teachers earning more than $100,000 a year has nearly tripled under Premier Kathleen Wynne, according to a National Post analysis, and that’s before new contracts guaranteeing a...
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