The Progressive Conservative leader said Ontario would maintain its share of funding for EV battery production subsidies even if U.S. President Donald Trump tears up the Inflation Reduction Act.

Laura Stone, The Globe's Ontario Legislature reporter, looks at the political landscape as the snap Ontario election campaign begins. Premier and PC Leader Doug Ford is calling for a stronger mandate to tackle the threat of tariffs from the Trump administration,

While Premier Doug Ford insists that U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threat is why he's calling an election 15 months ahead of schedule, there are plenty of reasons why the timing is politically advantageous to Ford and his Ontario PC Party.

The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario has accepted Premier Doug Ford's ask to dissolve the legislature for an early election that will officially begin on Wednesday.

Ford is taking Ontarians to the polls amid political instability in Ottawa after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced that he would resign.

Premier Doug Ford is planning to call a provincial election next Wednesday, which would send Ontarians to the polls on Feb. 27, a senior Progressive Conservative source has confirmed to CBC News.The planned election call would follow months of speculation that Ford wanted to face voters before the fixed 2026 date.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is considering calling a snap provincial election as early as next week, a source says, with Mr. Ford’s top staffer sending an internal memo about the need for strong ...

Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford says if re-elected, he will honour the province’s commitment to the electric vehicle sector should United States President Donald Trump end a subsidy program. Trump has said the U.S. does not want or need Canada’s cars despite signing a free trade deal with Canada and Mexico in his first term.

Dr. Merrilee Fullerton, a former family physician who served as Ford's minister of long-term care during the pandemic, expressed significant skepticism about the plan in a Substack post she titled "An Election-Timed Primary Care Epiphany."

In an ordinary election, a party leader’s challenge is simple: win. In the extraordinary winter snap election that Ford has called, the bar is higher. Ford’s challenge is not just to win, which will be relatively easy, but to drum up real enthusiasm for the tariff battle he wants to fight.

PC Leader Doug Ford says if re-elected, he will honour Ontario’s commitment to the electric vehicle sector should U.S. President Donald Trump end a subsidy program.