Author: Rick Barnes

Mike Harris – Former Conservative Premier

It appears the Ontario Liberals after being in power for eight years, run up the largest deficits in years, now claim they have a remedy, a remedy they told Mike Harris would never work.  Mike Harris must b…

NDP candidate Anil Naidoo and family

The Ontario election is getting exciting, especially when you have candidates getting the kinds of endorsements that Anil Naidoo is getting.  Naidoo is the NDP candidate in the October 6th Ontario election for O…

Since opening its doors in 2003, Insite has been a safe, health-focused place where people inject drugs and connect to health care services – from primary care to treat disease and infection, to addiction counselling and treatment, to housing and co…

InSite Wins

Stephen Harper and the the Conservative Government have been dealt a big blow by the Supreme Court of Canada. The court has said the jurisdiction of INSite is provincial and the Federal government must provide an exemption under the cont…

InSite Decision is expected today from the Supreme Court of Canada. 

I can only hope our Supreme Court will allow the site to continue operating.  I was part of the group, playing a small role when we started the ball rolling to establish InSite.  …

York South Weston is suppose to be a tight race between the NDP and Liberals.  The NDP won the seat by a narrow margin in a by-election in February 2007. In a general election held later that year the Liberals took the seat back but by a slim of marg…

There is a wave coming and its Orange.  The Ontario NDP are surging.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramalea%E2%80%94Gore%E2%80%94Malton_(provincial_electoral_district)

Let me show you an example of NDP support. The Provincial riding of Bramalea—…

Which party has to most fiscally conservative plan for Ontario.  The Ontario NDP.  Here is what Steve Paikin of TVO said…

Steve Paikin: “Adam [Radwanski] and I actually were both at the NDP launch of their fiscal platform this past weekend, and…

Shawn-Patrick Stensil

“They (Ontario Liberal Party) talk about green energy all the time but the majority of their spending goes into nuclear, they don’t mention it once in their platform and there’s a reason for that, they know it doesn’t …

"If you vote for the Liberals, I will give you cigarettes," said the then campaign worker, Nikki Holland to people at a Toronto Shelter.  Holland is now the Ontario Liberal Party’s operational vice-president.  She was reciting stories to Liberal volunteers attending a training session for this election and was caught on audio tape telling this and other stories.

Nikki Holland

The tape was

Things are happening fast.  Now not only are McGuinity’s Liberals attacking Andrea Horwath and the NDP, but Hudak is as well.  Internal party polling is obviously showing a serge in support for the NDP after the debate.  Over 1.5 million people watc…

Is this what we want in Queen’s Park?  A coalition of Conservatives and Liberals?  McGuinty appeals to federal Conservatives because he governs from the right.

“As Mr. Harper said and Mr. McGuinty says, we are doing pretty good. I think that’s …

It looks like Tony Clement’s days are numbered. Stephen Harper will have to do something dramatic to change the channel.  The Gazebo scandal will not go away. Even the Harper cons can’t just take 50 million dollars and spend it in your own riding.

J…

Strategic voting is a Liberal ploy to steal progressive votes. Don’t let them frighten you into abandoning democracy.  This is especially true in Toronto.   

In Toronto it is either NDP or Liberal. You can vote NDP in Toronto and not have to wo…

The Ontario Liberals have concocted a great deal for Ontario students. You can take their offer of 30% off the schools tuition.  That’s right, whatever the school is charging you for your tuition, take 30% off that.  And each year going forward you c…

Ex-enviro minister: Mega-project jobs should trump green concerns

Wow, is it Christmas time?  Harper has been sailing along, getting few hits that seem hurt, certainly in the short term and then former senior Minister and leadership hopeful (W…

OH oh!  The Conservative party may have just lost some of its luster. Check out Dammit Janet for more here. The bigger more important question is this.  Has Tim Hudak to best of your knowledge ever once taken Brad Trost’s name in vain?  I doubt it, …

Dalton McGuinty said in the debate last night that Ontario was “the largest job-creator” in Canada and receiving the second-most foreign investment in North America (after California).

These two claims simply reflect Ontario’s larger size and …

The debate is over and now everyone is debating the winner. Andrea Horwath did what she needed to do. Ontarions who have not heard her or seen her to date were impressed. In fact Horwath surprised many and was seen as the one with the best policies …

Andrea Horwath is ready for tonight’s debate.  She met earlier today with a roller derby team. They have dubbed her the Steeltown Scrapper and they gave her a leather jacket!

Andrea Horwath accepts Debate Jacket