Ontario premier Doug Ford has triggered an early election in the province, saying he needs a strong mandate to take on the tariff threat.

Ontario's legislature will be dissolved on Tuesday and the most populous Canadian province will vote on Feb. 27 to elect its next government, Premier Doug Ford's office said.

But that also carries risks. In 1990, voters punished Liberal premier David Peterson, also enjoying a majority government, who called an early election with a recession looming, Wiseman noted. Peterson lost badly. “I think a lot of people felt a bit uneasy about how things were going to turn out economically,” Wiseman said.

While some Ontarians experienced a blast of winter weather early Tuesday, others reported experiencing something different as a thundersnow storm hit parts of the province.

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

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.

Police have issued warnings involving criminals extorting targets with pictures of their residences in Ontario.  OPP representatives issued this warning today alongside a report on fraud trends in southern Ontario.

Whether the left lane on a highway is meant for passing or can be used like any other lane seems to be an issue that has vexed Toronto drivers for years.

Heavy amounts of lake-effect snow have buried several Ontario communities this season, with the open lakes and the frigid cold creating a near-constant snow machine.

A medical emergency caused a vehicle to veer off Paddy Lane in the Town of Ontario on Thursday afternoon, striking a house and leaving the driver hospitalized, according to the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office.

Guelph-based Linamar said late January it would be investing more than $1 billion in its southern Ontario facilities The money will in part help create over 2,000 new jobs, the company promises The investment will largely expand its production of electrified-vehicle technologies, but not just EVs

Indeed one of the reasons Creep I.E. made the list of top national conventions because of its focus on celebrity appearances, and this year it features one of the biggest names in horror: Cassandra Peterson, who is best known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She will appear on Saturday only.