The municipal election season is here in Ontario with the nomination period open as of May 1. The vote is scheduled for Monday, October 26. It’s one of …

    Politics make strange bedfellows, they say, and that partially explains why Timiskaming-Cochrane NDP MPP John Vanthof and the Ontario Conservative government are on the same page with the …

By Steven Larocque   The son of friends of mine is applying for college this fall and that brought to mind old conversations his dad and I used to get …

By Joe O’Grady   During a recent trip through The Speaker archives, I was surprised to see a prescient little tidbit on the front page of the June 24, 1926, …

    No doubt readers have heard by now that Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government bought – and is now trying to sell – a jet for his use for …

By Gordon Brock   Barry Wellar, a Latchford native but now a resident of Ottawa, was awarded the Order of Canada in 2018 for his contributions to the development and …

    A minority government has its fans. A government that has to compromise with the other parties is one that’s less prone to falling into the trap of ultra-partisan …