Author: Rick Barnes

The Ontario Provincial Police have been called in to investigate allegations of financial impropriety within the Niagara Falls Tourism Agency.   This after the two government investigations found staff flaunted expense regulations and awarded un-tende…

The GOP has 3 rules. The Vagina rules…

You can vote for one of the old line parties or you can vote for real change for people …

GSA’s in Ontario Catholic schools need help.

The original is here. h/t to @ddemchuk

Hon Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board

The NDP plan to release new information, emails between Treasury Board President, Tony Clement and others in particular Mayor Claude Doughty of Huntsville.  See this report tonight from Stephen M…

The Hudak Conservatives have campaigned on the idea of putting prisoners to work, cleaning litter from roadways and graffiti from buildings.  Many have jumped at the idea these are like chain gangs often seen in new reels from the southern US or in …

The election is October 6.  It looks to be a minority government at this time. If that is the case there are a couple of things that could happen.  If either Hudak or McGuinty are only a seat or two away from a majority, they could always do what Stephen Harper or Paul Martin have done, offer a plum to a couple of the "bad guys" to join you.  McGuinty could find a Tory that can be bought or Hudak

Is there anything McGuinty won’t do to get re-elected in Ontario?

We have seen the Ontario Liberals launch one of the most negative campaigns this side of Steven Harper.  Their basic campaign has been to attack the other guys.  To demonize his op…

Here’s my take on the Ontario election so far.  The Liberals started from behind and needed a couple boogeymen! Alas they got a woman and a man.  The Liberals have been attempting to, and with some success, to scare the middle that the Ontario NDP wo…

Wow, New poll from Forum Research in the Toronto Star shows the Liberals and Conservatives tied at 35% each in what has to be the biggest set of polling numbers in a Canadian election ever, here in Ontario.  The poll has the NDP at 23%.  If the numbe…

The McGuinty Liberals have been running a large smear campaign, attacking the Ontario NDP record and misinforming voters.  Here is a classic example of that effort.  The Liberals have set up websites that look like they were created by third party gr…

I have seen many political ads in my time, many videos.  Most are not that great.  The video below is likely one of the best I have ever seen by a local candidate in a provincial or federal election.  Kevin Chief is running for the NDP in the Manito…

In Ontario it is possible to vote for who you want in this election. Especially for those that live in the North, in Toronto, Ottawa Centre, Hamilton, Windsor, Niagara, London,  Thunder Bay, Sudbury, Sault Ste Marie, Kingston.  You can vote for ch…

New Ontario NDP ad – Its about change, about making life affordable, its positive!  Its so refreshing to see an ad that doesn’t focus on the other guys, but on what you will do if elected.  Well done NDP, well done!

“Faced with the grim stats on poverty in Ontario— including food bank use increasing 28% since 2008, waitlists for affordable housing increasing 25% since 2007, and the poverty rate increasing by 17% since 2007 – the most in Canada – immediate …

I would really like to spend this election talking about the issues.  Trouble is the Ontario Liberals and the Hudak Conservatives just want to run negative ads that attack others but do nothing to talk about issues.

The Ontario Liberals fearing the …

Want to know who the Liberal smear team is?  Here is the A-Team, Dalton’s online pit bulls.  Most of them earn their money from taxpayers.  You and me pay most of these people in excess of $40,000 per year and in most cases double and triple that am…

Undeclared MP from BC, Peter Julian has four MPs –
Isabelle Morin, Kennedy Stewart, Brian Masse and Rathika Sitsabaiesan 
Thomas Mulcair now has  eight MPs supporting him –
Robert Aubin, Francois Lapointe, Jamie Nicholls, Marie-Claude Morin, Alexand…

Gay voters in Toronto Center and for that matter in Ontario should be having a hard look at the results of seven years of Liberal government and the future.  In particular, voters should look at very powerful queer MPP’s that have run McGuinty’s gover…

The NDP leadership will soon get very interesting.  Brian Topp has been out there now for awhile. He has two big and i mean BIG endorsements.  Thomas Mulcair is still playing the field. Looking for a constituency other than Quebec. Quebec MP Romeo Sa…