Christine Elliott

Not as surprising, given the new PC majority: A lot of them are conservatives

The plain-talking, folksy new PC leader will appeal to growing populist leanings, but he may also struggle to win over key urban Ontario voters

Paul Wells: The night ends with a Doug Ford win—ha-ha, nervous laugh. If there’s a lesson it’s that Ontario conservatism is a complex coalition.

A new Angus Reid Institute poll sees Elliott with more appeal beyond the PC base than rival Doug Ford

Paul Wells: The other candidates in Wednesday’s PC leadership debate spent much time focused on Elliott. Like backup singers to a possible premier.

Leadership candidates Christine Elliott, Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney debate each other today. Watch the broadcast here.

Opinion: The Ontario Progressive Conservatives have created a fiscal and environmental hole for themselves they have no clear way to fill

Allegations about Guergis “came forth from a third party”

Toronto Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay held a fundraiser in an old downtown Toronto bank vault that has been converted into an entertainment space.

Never mind its series on our declining democracy, surely the Toronto Star is due a National Newspaper Award for its continuing coverage of cabinet-level cussing.

In which Wells looks like he just stepped out of GQ, and I look like I just got out of jail. We discuss Mario Dumont’s possible resurfacing as a federal (and federalist?) Conservative, and Dalton McGuinty’s inability to understand basic economics, and uh, other stuff, but it’s not like any of you will be taking any of it in. It’s TV — all anyone notices is your hair.

And Flaherty’s wife takes aim