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Where the election will be decided

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Sabrina Nanji
Feb 27, 2025
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ABOVE THE FOLD

Take a deep breath Ontario, it’s Election Day.

While we won’t know for sure how this will all shake out until shortly after polls close at 9 p.m., we do know that not much has changed since day one of this snap campaign.

State of play: DOUG FORD and the PCs are still riding high in the polls and boast a double-digit lead over the Liberals, who have managed to overtake the NDP in the race for second place.

Ford’s big lead is owed in large part to the ballot-box question, which the PCs have framed as a leadership matter: Who do Ontarians want in their corner now that we’re in the thick of DONALD TRUMP’s chaotic tenure?

“I want to be Premier forever,” Ford said, brushing off a question about the RCMP’s Greenbelt probe. Then, confidently: “I think we have a shot at all 124,” he told reporters in Tecumseh. Ford also zig-zagged to London, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Waterloo, and, ahem, Mississauga East-Cooksville, where BONNIE CROMBIE is running.

Ford takes a sartorial shot at …

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