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Algoma-Manitoulin is a provincial riding located in Northern Ontario. This riding is currently represented by Independent MPP Michael Mantha who first took office in 2011. Mantha collected 11,252 votes, winning 45.93 per cent of the vote in the 2022 Ontario provincial election. Voters will decide who will represent Algoma-Manitoulin in Northern Ontario during the upcoming Ontario provincial election on February 27, 2025. Visit this page on election night for a complete breakdown of up to the minute results. Candidates Independent: Michael Mantha (Incumbent) PC Party of Ontario: Bill Rosenberg Ontario NDP: David Timeriski Ontario Liberal Party: Reg Niganobe Green Party…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 25, 2025 5:09 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Dozens of people gathered outside Ontario’s health ministry in Toronto today, two days before the provincial election, to protest the province’s plans to shut down 10 supervised drug consumption sites by the end of March. Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government announced last summer that it would close the consumption sites, including five in Toronto, because of their proximity to schools and daycares.The government has also banned new sites from opening as it moves away from harm reduction to…

Ontario will replace its main method of cervical cancer screening next week to a more accurate and less frequent test, but the dreaded speculum exam is not in the rear-view just yet. Human papillomavirus (HPV) tests in the province will replace Pap tests, also known as Pap smears or cervical cytology, on March 3, following similar moves in British Columbia and Prince Edward Island.Both tests aim to detect cervical cancer and involve collecting a cell sample from the cervix. Ontario Health says the HPV test is more accurate at catching cervical cancer than the previous method, which will mean most…

Ajax is a provincial riding located in the Greater Toronto Area. This riding is currently represented by PC Party of Ontario MPP Patrice Barnes who first took office in 2022. Barnes collected 15,336 votes, winning 40.69 per cent of the vote in the 2022 Ontario provincial election. Voters will decide who will represent Ajax in the Greater Toronto Area during the upcoming Ontario provincial election on February 27, 2025. Visit this page on election night for a complete breakdown of up to the minute results. Candidates PC Party of Ontario: Patrice Barnes (Incumbent) Ontario NDP: Arthur Augustine Ontario Liberal Party:…

By n The Canadian Pressn The Canadian Press Posted February 25, 2025 3:58 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size DUNEDIN – Max Scherzer had a solid spring training debut for Toronto as the Blue Jays defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 on Tuesday. Scherzer started the game and struck out four of the six batters he faced.He gave up the Cardinals’ opening run in the first inning after surrendering a triple to Victor Scott II, who later scored on an Alec Burleson sacrifice fly.Toronto acquired the 40-year-old Scherzer, a three-time Cy Young Award winner,…

A senior Progressive Conservative candidate has been caught on camera telling a potential voter that a widely-circulated 2018 video of Doug Ford promising to open the Greenbelt for development is “fake news” and was possibly created using artificial intelligence. The comments by Todd McCarthy, who served as a Progressive Conservative cabinet minister between 2023 and 2025, were caught on a doorbell camera on Feb. 12 as the Durham candidate was door-knocking ahead of the election.The video was sent to Global News and shows a short conversation between McCarthy and the resident about Ontario’s protected Greenbelt land.At first, McCarthy defended the…

Investigators in Hamilton say they are searching an Ontario landfill for any evidence that could lead them to a missing 40-year-old woman. Shalini Singh was last seen by family and friends at around 7:10 p.m. on Dec. 4, 2024. She was reported missing by her concerned family about a week later on Dec. 10, police said.Police said that at the time of her disappearance, Singh was living with her common-law boyfriend at a downtown Hamilton apartment building.Singh’s boyfriend was also reported missing at the same time but was found on Dec. 11 after going to a family member’s home outside…

A federal inmate serving life for murder escaped from a Quebec prison Monday – only to be found hundreds of kilometres away in Toronto. Authorities say they noticed convicted killer Ricardo Vilches had vanished from the minimum security unit at the Archambault Institution in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., when he wasn’t present during head count at noon. Ricardo Vilches, 85, is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS- HO Correctional Service Canada Trending Now Correctional Service Canada said an arrest warrant was issued for Vilches and was arrested by Toronto police around 5:45 p.m. that same day. Story continues below…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 25, 2025 12:07 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is calling for an investigation into the city’s winter maintenance operations, as piles of snow remain on sidewalks and roads after multiple snowstorms this month. Chow says she’s “frustrated” with the response, and she’s asked city manager Paul Johnson to conduct a full review of winter maintenance contracts and consider renegotiating or breaking contracts with snow clearing companies.The mayor also says she’s asked the Toronto auditor general to investigate how the city handled this month’s winter storms…

Thursday is election day in Ontario, and while the polls have consistently had the Progressive Conservatives cruising to re-election, there are various ridings across the province in which the results may come down to the wire or have broader implications. Here are 10 ridings to watch on election night: Mississauga East-CooksvilleLiberal Leader Bonnie Crombie, the former mayor of Mississauga, took her time in choosing which of the six Mississauga ridings to run in, and she landed on this one.This riding is the only one in Mississauga without a Progressive Conservative incumbent and the Tories’ choice of candidate is an interesting one.Silvia…