Uphold upload agreement, mayors of Ottawa, Mississauga urge Hudak
Monday, October 3, 2011
As the Ontario election campaign enters the critical last days, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion are putting more pressure on Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak to commit to the Liberal uploading agreement with municipalities, and prevent property tax increases.
Burlington ‘green’ firm fears Hudak win
Monday, October 3, 2011
Concerned about the prospect of a Tim Hudak-led PC government, a local green-energy entrepreneur led a small protest outside his business this morning.
The dire prospect of living in Hudakdom
Thursday, September 29, 2011
There’s a pattern to the punditry that follows a televised leaders’ election debate — “there was no clear winner,” “no one landed a knockout punch,” “each appealed to their base,” etc.
Hudak stuck in a haze of ambivalence
Thursday, September 29, 2011
In the 2006 federal election, Bill Davis was an enthusiastic booster for Stephen Harper.
Greenpeace calls Hudak a job killer
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Greenpeace Canada and a local solar panel company unveiled a mock memorial cemetery Wednesday to signify the death of green energy jobs across Ontario if Conservative leader Tim Hudak is elected premier Oct. 6.
Did Hudak let McGuinty win?
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
I’m a big believer in Paul Wells’ rules of Canadian politics.
The one I find the most useful is the fourth rule: “The guy who auditions for the role of opposition leader will get the job.”
Disturbing silence from Hudak on accessibility
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
At risk in this election are our hard-won gains to make Ontario fully accessible to people with disabilities.
Onus on Hudak to prove province needs change
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Those who follow history might have noticed that it was 51 years ago yesterday that Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy squared off in the first televised debate between political leaders.
Tim Hudak’s PC Party pledges to cut francophone programs
Monday, September 26, 2011
Tim Hudak has walked away from francophones in Ontario but this isn’t anything new to the PC Party.
The True Cost of Living in Ontario or Are Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives All Wet?
Monday, September 26, 2011
There has been a lot of talk by all the parties about how to deal with the day to day challenges of living in Ontario not the least of which has been a discussion on the cost of living.
Hudak’s stand on uploading will drive up taxes, critics say
Friday, September 23, 2011
“The billion dollars that has been taken up to the provincial level to date, we will honour that.”
With those few words, Provincial Conservative Leader Tim Hudak stunned the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference in August in London, Ont., where delegates were hoping to hear him commit to continuing the uploading of hundreds of millions of dollars in services from municipalities to Queen’s Park.
Hudak quiet on Mayor Ford
Wednesday, September 20, 2011
They were supposed to be allies who would sweep Toronto arm in arm, but now Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak can barely mention Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s name.
This is one F-bomb that Hudak refuses to drop
September 19, 2011
It’s a four-letter F-word that Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak tries not to utter.
Harris legacy has potential to be problem for Hudak
September 18, 2011
There’s a shadow hanging over Tim Hudak’s bid to become Ontario’s next Progressive Conservative premier.
Hudak’s Toronto stumble weighs down Tories after two weeks
September 18, 2011
After the second week of Ontario’s election campaign, the race between the Progressive Conservatives and the governing Liberals is still very close. But without the support of Toronto’s voters, Tim Hudak has little hope of becoming the province’s next premier.
Jo Brant funding not guaranteed: Hudak
September 16, 2011
If Tim Hudak becomes premier on Oct. 6, there is no guarantee the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital redevelopment will be completed under a Progressive Conservative government.
Questions must be answered
Friday, September 16, 2011
One day. Two would-be premiers. One refuses to answer the biggest question in Windsor and Essex County. The other strolls the city’s main street asking people what’s on their minds.
Hillier targets ‘foreign workers’ again
Friday, September 16, 2011
Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak may have backed off from references to “foreign workers,” but controversial Conservative incumbent Randy Hillier isn’t.
Anyone but Hudak, CAW urges its members
Friday, September 16, 2011
Anybody but Tim, Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza said Thursday.
Hudak comes up short on specifics
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is friendly and engaging.
Tory message not getting through to Toronto voters
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak is the least popular of the three major party leaders among voters residing in the 416 area code – and local mayor Rob Ford may be partly to blame.
Hudak dodges tough questions on green jobs during Kingsville tour
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak brought his lower-tax, tough-on-crime rallying cry to an appreciative local audience Tuesday night but refused to take questions from local reporters.
Hudak hypocrisy hurting
Wednesday September 14, 2011
The modest tax credit proposed for companies that hire new Canadians won’t accomplish much, but it has showed us a lot about our political leaders and political debate in Ontario.
Hudak deceives with Changebook
Tuesday September 13, 2011
Pressing people’s buttons is unsavoury on the stump. But pulling the wool over their eyes is no less unsettling.
Cohn: Hudak’s taking Ontarians for a ride
Monday September 12, 2011
Pressing people’s buttons is unsavoury on the stump. But pulling the wool over their eyes is no less unsettling.
Welcome to Tim Hudak’s Tea Party
Monday September 12, 2011
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s public response to a program designed to help well-educated and trained citizens gain Canadian experience by providing modest support to those employers who hire them is a prime example of bringing north the ugly and divisive politics below the 49th parallel.
Hudak trips on politics of division
Monday September 12, 2011
Pancake breakfasts can be an occupational hazard for politicians, given their potential for unkind comments about flipflops and so on.
Hudak likely won’t apologize
Monday September 12, 2011
Premier Dalton McGuinty probably shouldn’t hold his breath waiting for PC Leader Tim Hudak to apologize for his attacks on the Liberals’ plan to help underemployed new Canadians with a special $10,000 business tax credit.
Hudak’s comments shock human rights campaigner
Sunday September 11, 2011
Errol P. Mendes, the well-known University of Ottawa law professor and human rights campaigner, has condemned Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak’s description of new immigrants in Ontario as “foreign workers,” as appalling, and says no one running to be premier of Canada’s largest province should use such incendiary language.
Hudak’s PCs play with fire by playing the “foreign” card
Saturday September 10, 2011
Week One of Ontario’s election is a case study in how politicians can come out of the gate waging war on the wrong issues, rather than showing the right stuff.
Hudak defends MPP who owes back taxes
Friday September 9, 2011
Tim Hudak’s campaign mantra that Progressive Conservatives are the only ones who will defend hardworking taxpayers was derailed Friday by revelations that a high-profile Tory is embroiled in a long-running tax dispute.
Ontarians Cool To Tim Hudak
Thursday September 7, 2011
Well now we’ve seen the platforms of the three major parties and two of them appear to be doing what’s popular rather than what is right.
Hudak’s politics of division
Wednesday September 8, 2011
New immigrants to Ontario must wonder how they suddenly went from being valued Canadians, whose skills our economy needs, to being publicly derided as “foreigners.”
Ontarians not trusting of Hudak: poll
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak continues to lead Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty ahead of the Oct.6 provincial election, but a new poll from Nanos Research suggests many still aren’t comfortable with Hudak becoming premier.
Simple math challenges Hudak’s big plans
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Ontario Tory leader Tim Hudak just launched his pre-campaign campaign by promising lower taxes and higher spending.
Hudak plunges into dangerous liaison with Rob Ford
Friday, September 02, 2011
Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives are taking a massive gamble and embracing Mayor Rob Ford, not out of love — the two aren’t close — but because they have no choice.
County council cringes at Hudak claim
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
A Conservative government in Ontario could mean additional costs for municipalities, a Hastings County official says.
Hudak not good for rural Ontario
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
If I were running for office in the Oct. 6 election in rural Ontario under the Progressive Conservative banner, I think I would want to get some duct tape and place some firmly across leader Tim Hudak’s mouth.
Ouster of Sterling by Tories disgraceful: Eves
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The ouster of MPP Norm Sterling by the Progressive Conservative Party in Carleton-Mississippi Mills was disgraceful, said former Ontario premier Ernie Eves.
Cities beware of Tim Hudak
August 26, 2011
Tim Hudak has said some pretty questionable things in the run-up to the Oct. 6 Ontario election.
Don’t kid yourselves about Hudak and his gang
August 26, 2011
Tim Hudak and his Tories may think they’ve dodged a bullet by quietly doing an about-face on all-day kindergarten — realizing a plan to kill it would just as surely kill their election chances — but Tiny Tim may have loaded another round in the chamber when being soft on whether his party would continue the municipal downloading ways of Hudak’s mentor, Mike Harris.
Ontario Election Comes Down to One Issue – Stability and Solid Leadership, or Car Salesmen Sound Bits
August 26, 2011
The writ is about to fall soon and it will be time for the province of Ontario to make a huge decision and one that will impact all of Canada.
Hudak’s bad deal for cities
August 25, 2011
Municipal leaders from cities and towns across the province must have wondered if they had stumbled into an earthquake-induced time warp at their convention this week.
Tory Tim Hudak: Mike Harris Lite
August 24, 2011
So here we go again.
Tim Hudak keeps giving Liberals more ways to paint him as a Harris-era Tory
August 23, 2011
The provincial election in October has an oddly retro feel to it: Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak seems inclined to bash Dalton McGuinty for every tax, fee or fine implemented since the Liberals took power in 2003, and the Liberals respond by calling Hudak the reincarnation of Mike Harris.
Ontario female voters shy away from Tim Hudak
August 16, 2011
Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak faces an uphill battle to win the trust of female voters in the upcoming election campaign.
Tories scare up votes
August 4, 2011
It’s no surprise that Mike Harris Jr. — excuse us, make that Tim Hudak — and the Progressive Conservatives are implementing a tough law-and-order theme to their provincial election campaign.
Tim Hudak faces the wedge
August 5, 2011
On the surface, it’s easy to interpret Energy Minister Brad Duguid’s move to make it difficult for a future Tory government to kill some 1,800 pending wind energy projects as an attempt to entrench Liberal policies ahead of a defeat.
Working Families escalates attacks on Hudak
August 05, 2011
A politically active union group that Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak wants to outlaw is urging Ontarians to vote against him with an aggressive new ad blitz.
Liberals working to make Hudak sweat
August 4, 2011
On the surface, it’s easy to interpret Energy Minister Brad Duguid’s move to make it difficult for a future Tory government to kill some 1,800 pending wind energy projects as an attempt by a party facing defeat to entrench its policies.
Hudak might have just had his John Tory moment
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Pity the poor city editors in summer. Almost nothing happens.
Tory “Paycheck Protection”: Looking out for the public or defanging Hudak’s opponents?
July 11, 2011
There’s been a lot of talk recently that we’ve entered a new – and rocky – era of labour relations now that Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have a majority.
Cohn: Voters will need double dose of financial skepticism
June 29, 2011
Truth is the first casualty of war — and elections. Like military campaigns, political campaigns rely on propaganda to disarm the media and distract the public.
Hudak treats us like dolts
June 29, 2011
When you cast your ballot in the provincial election Oct. 6, will you vote with your gut, or will you vote with your head?
The mathematically challenged Tim Hudak
Jun. 22, 2011
Tim Hudak is not the first politician to take voters for chumps, and he certainly won’t be the last. But the Ontario Conservative Leader’s platform, on which he’ll fight the fall election, is based on so many dubious, to say nothing of false, premises that he must be counting on the electorate’s ignorance for victory.
Cohn: Hudak’s numbers don’t add up, Liberals say
June 22, 2011
Never mind those Tory attack ads demonizing Premier Dalton McGuinty. Negative advertising is nothing compared to the revenge of the number-crunchers who invaded Queen’s Park on Wednesday.
Why I voted to battle Tories Teacher, union leader, explains backing $60 fee to smash Tories and let educators skip school to campaign
June 8, 2011
When it comes to our teacher unions, it seems politics + finances = controversy
Cohn: Hudak Tories take a page from Harris era to dupe us on debt
June 4, 2011
Here’s a hot issue that Tim Hudak thinks will bring down the Ontario government: Higher hydro bills.
Persichilli: Hudak sees Ignatieff in the mirror
June 4, 2011
Some time ago I wrote a column about the similarities between the policies of the federal Conservative government of Stephen Harper and the Ontario provincial Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty. I wrote about Stephen McGuinty and Dalton Harper. This time I want to write about Tim Ignatieff and Michael Hudak.
Tim Hudak and the Common Nonsense Revolution
June 1, 2011
Former U.S. President George W. Bush had a disconcerting view about debt. Don’t pay it. Let the next guy cover it. And with Tory Leader Tim Hudak’s Changebook platform, Ontarians could get a taste of that U.S. fiscal and economic solution.
Tories one-upped by Working Families
May 31, 2011
Tim Hudak has vowed to defang Working Families, but the union-backed coalition that’s spent millions attacking him in TV ads has taken another bite out of his Progressive Conservatives.