Everyone knows it's voting season but that doesn't mean you can easily tell who to vote for. This timeline will offer readers a breakdown of what's happening in the run up to the October 6 Ontario election.
Created by mdaniell on Jun 13, 2011
Last updated: 10/06/11 at 11:19 PM
Tags: Ontario election Dalton McGuinty Tim Hudak Progressive Conservative Liberal Party
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Polls for the Ontario provincial election opened Thursday as Premier Dalton McGuinty tries to win his third majority government against Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/10/06/18791341.html
Voters painted Ontario red for a third time Thursday night, sending the Big Blue Machine on the road to Opposition for another four years.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/10/06/18791341.html
With his vote already cast, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak used his spare time on election day to press that last bit of flesh before the counting begins.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/10/06/18789836.html
Casting her campaign as a fight to the finish, Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath blitzed eight ridings around Toronto on the last day of the provincial campaign.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/05/horwaths-final-push
A day before Ontarians go to the polls, Tory candidate Cheryl Miller blamed her troubles in London-Fanshawe on the unpopularity of Conservative Leader Tim Hudak.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/10/05/18785656.html
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath urged Ontario voters Wednesday to follow Manitoba voters' lead.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/10/05/18784471.html
Ontario’s tight election could deliver a Liberal-NDP government bent on raising taxes, warned Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/04/elechudak
Ontario's political landscape has shifted slightly in these final days before the election, according to an Abacus Data poll.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/10/04/18781846.html
Ontario’s tight election could deliver a Liberal-NDP government bent on raising taxes, warned Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/04/elechudak
The big reveal could come Sunday as New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath is expected to spell out her terms for participating in a minority government.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/01/horwath-poised-to-talk-minority
Two-thirds of Ontarians don’t believe Premier Dalton McGuinty will keep his promise to hold the line on taxes, according to an exclusive Sun Media/Leger Marketing poll.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/01/most-dont-believe-mcguintys-tax-promise-poll
It's not often Liberals and Tories promise to burst the same balloon.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/10/01/18767981.html
Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty came to this border town — one police have identified as a major gateway for smuggled contraband tobacco — but would not commit to cracking down on illegal smoke shacks.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/10/01/18768696.html
QMI breaks down how the platforms of Ontario’s potential premiers will affect you where it counts most - your pocketbooks.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/01/what-party-platforms-mean-for-ontarians-wallets
Stephen Harper’s finance minister is diving deep into the Ontario election, warning a re-elected Liberal government may be dangerous for the provincial economy.
The kind of legislated wage freeze Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak wouldn't rule out Friday was dismissed by his NDP rival.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/30/18763536.html
An Ontario Liberal campaign official who was recorded making a smokes-for-votes comment has resigned.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/29/18762756.html
I smell panic. I hear fear. Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty dropped by the Sun Friday for a sit down with our editorial board.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/30/mcguinty-fears-ndp-gaining-popularity
Now it’s a horse race! NDP leader Andrea Horwath pulled within reach of her rivals following Tuesday’s televised leader’s debate, an exclusive SunMedia/Leger poll shows.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/30/18765826.html
A number of homes and cars of Liberal supporters have been vandalized, police in this Ontario city say.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/30/18764421.html
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has been “changing her story” in a number of key matters and needs to come straight with Ontarians, Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty says.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/30/mcguinty-goes-after-horwath
Usually election signs suggest who to vote for at the polls: "Elect" or “Re-elect” so-and-so.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/30/ont-man-creates-none-of-the-above-signs
I smell panic. I hear fear. Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty dropped by the Sun Friday for a sit down with our editorial board.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/30/mcguinty-fears-ndp-gaining-popularity
A Tim Hudak Conservative government would have let the wheels come off the Ontario auto industry, Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty charges.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/30/mcguinty-says-hudak-would-devastate-the-auto-industry
Documents show a holding company created to purchase the New Democratic Party headquarters was used to finance the party's election campaign — despite Leader Andrea Horwath's adamant denials.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/29/18756731.html
Tim Hudak is ripping Dalton McGuinty as “panicked” over new, accelerated job-creation spending plans the Liberal leader defends as necessary amid global economic uncertainty.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/29/mcguinty-panicked-hudak
It appears Mayor Rob Ford won’t be wading into the provincial election at the 11th hour.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/29/ford-staying-out-of-provincial-election
Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty is broadly hinting he’ll roll out new job creation spending promises in the dying days of a tight election race.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/28/18754526.html
New Democrats are proud of their Orange Crush. We at the Sun put the Big Blue Squeeze on Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak Wednesday.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/28/we-need-a-full-doughnut--not-timbits-blizzard
Toronto will have a "hat trick" of budget-cutters if it elects PC Leader Tim Hudak to run the province, Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/28/18750876.html
The Freedom Party of Ontario hopes to appeal to lead-footed motorists and booze hounds by increasing speed limits and having 24-hour liquor sales.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/28/freedom-party-wants-120-kmh-speed-limits
Ontario won’t escape growing global economic troubles, Conservative leader Tim Hudak told a Toronto Sun editorial board Wednesday.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/28/18754546.html
Twelve hours after Dalton McGuinty evoked his legacy in the TV debate, former Tory premier Bill Davis gave Tim Hudak a solid, if not resounding, endorsement Wednesday.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/28/former-preem-bill-davis-praises-hudak
Ontario jail guards want to be armed if they’re going to support Tim Hudak’s call to use convicts to perform manual labour in communities, their union says.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/28/armed-jail-guards-needed-for-hudak-plan-union
The Union-Pearson air-rail link will run on electricity if Andrea Horwath becomes premier, the NDP leader told an appreciative west-end crowd at a post-debate breakfast Wednesday.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/28/18750771.html
A holding company set up by Ontario’s New Democrats to buy the party’s headquarters has little else to do with the NDP, Leader Andrea Horwath said Tuesday.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/27/it-hasnt-nothing-to-do-with-me-horwath-on-hq-grant
Foreign workers waving hands and an unplugged gas plant were the highlights of a 90-minute provincial leaders’ debate that signals the final sprint to election day on Oct. 6.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/27/18749171.html
Premier Dalton McGuinty says he's stopped construction of a controversial Mississauga electricity plant. Rival Tim Hudak suspects he's only hit pause.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/26/18740716.html
It will be give-and-take for businesses under Ontario’s New Democrats. One day after unveiling a fiscal plan reliant on hiking corporate taxes, the NDP released a new television ad playing up the party’s tax credit scheme for new hires.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/26/ndp-offers-businesses-tax-give-and-take
Love him or loathe him, at this point in the election campaign it seems everyone has an opinion on Dalton McGuinty.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/26/18742321.html
Premier Dalton McGuinty says he's stopped construction of a controversial Mississauga electricity plant. Rival Tim Hudak suspects he's only hit pause.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/26/18740716.html
A Progressive Conservative government would make it easier for
crime victims to get compensation but Tory Leader Tim Hudak stopped short of
committing any new cash to the issue.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/25/18736986.html
Corporate tax hikes are a linchpin in the $3.3-billion platform detailed Sunday by Ontario's NDP. The Liberals, evoking the much-maligned legacy of Bob Rae, have called the New Democrat plan a "job killer."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/News/2011/09/25/18737581.html
Despite a gruelling election tour, Andrea Horwath is looking relaxed and perky as she orders her cappuccino on a College St. patio.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/25/horwath-has-reason-to-be-cheerful-blizzard
The 2009 death of a teen here is a symptom of the consequences of the Liberals’ healthcare decisions, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Saturday.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/24/horwath-focuses-on-healthcare
Ontario’s wannabe premiers go toe to toe in the TV ring on Tuesday. So you can put away your Diazepam for the night. Sweet dreams.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/24/a-few-questions-for-our-leaders
It’s a ticking time bomb — increasing by $685 a second. That’s how quickly the Ontario debt is getting racked up, according to the Ontario Taxpayers Federation.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/24/mcguinty-is-the-debt-devil-blizzard
Ontario’s wannabe premiers go toe to toe in the TV ring on Tuesday. So you can put away your Diazepam for the night. Sweet dreams.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/24/a-few-questions-for-our-leaders
Only their mothers can tell them apart. Ontario Liberal candidate Kathleen Wynne said Saturday that NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and PC Leader Tim Hudak are joined at the political hip, voting the same way 183 times in the Legislature.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes/2011/09/24/18734346.html
It’s no time for rookies, Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty suggested Friday as fears of a global recession grew.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/23/uncertain-times-demand-experience-mcguinty
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