Martin Regg Cohn offers a succinct summary of the Ontario PC leadership race: Mere months before the election, the province’s official Opposition sacrificed its leader in a scandal over sexual misconduct allegations; surrendered its official campaign platform in a policy panic; revealed the “rot” and internal wrongdoing in its nominations
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Northern Reflections: You Can’t Go Home Again
Christine Elliott has run for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives three times. The first two times she lost. Martin Regg Cohn writes that she was the right choice then and she’s the right choice now. But this time the party platform represents a return to pre-historic times: Modern
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The irony of the Ontario Tory leadership race is that deposed — now back in the game leader — Patrick Brown is the only Red Tory in the race. And his opposition is desperately trying to get rid of him. Tom Walkom writes: He’s also the only candidate vying for
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After viewing yesterday’s leadership debate, Martin Regg Cohn writes: Ontario’s once-proud PC party may emerge from this renewal process having regressed — with nary an idea for the future economic, educational or technological challenges facing our province. Four candidates (three serious contenders, one single-issue contestant) were behind the microphones at
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All three candidates for the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party have declared their opposition to a carbon tax. Andrew Coyne writes: When the Great Platform Revolt began, I had thought that their position would be just to default to the status quo, i.e. cap and trade, since a) this
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