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There was a federal election in 2011, but my friend and I left for a 5-week stay in France before the advance voting period, so we ordered ballots. We picked them up at the post office in Paris; we had to send copies of our IDs, but fortunately there was a scanner and printer in the apartment we were renting. I was a bit of a hassle but I hated the prospect of not voting.
 
PinkLucy said:
There is also the issue of snowbirds voting from sunny destinations https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-snowbirds-voting-concern-1.7446794
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The deadline to apply to vote by mail is 6 PM (Eastern Time) on February 21.
Elections Ontario must receive your completed voting kit by 6 PM (Eastern Time) on February 27 to be counted.
Once your application has been reviewed and approved:
  • You will be unable to choose another voting option
  • You will receive a voting kit with a ballot at the mailing address provided. It can take up to four days for your application to be processed
  • You can use the prepaid envelope to return your voting kit or you can drop it off at your local election office. If you are outside Canada, you will be responsible for the international postage.
See https://votebymail.elections.on.ca/

See also https://www.elections.on.ca/en/voting-in-ontario/voting-in-provincial-elections.html#accordionvbmEN
 
Got a mailing from the Liberals. "Team Bonnie has a plan" but they appear to be keeping it to themselves for now. Unless it's just the following: "In addition to fixing family medicine, we will implement the largest tax relief plan for the people in Ontario in over decade."

And according to their website, they want to cut the small business tax rate in half. At least they don't promise to eliminate the deficit at the same time.

Anyway, no thanks.
 
The first 'progressive' promises by the Libs and the Dippers out the same day.

Crombie - would double ODSP (provincial disability cheques) which would take them from $1,368 per month to $2,736.

Stiles - would double Social Assistance Rates (not clear if she's including ODSP, but is definitely featuring Ontario Works) the latter would rise from $733 per month to $1,466.

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Both rates, even after enhancement would remain brutal to get by on.

But if I had to pick, I'd rather bring OW up first, given how obscenely low that number is; but also giving weight to the idea there may be a new federal disability benefit of $200 per month or more in the near term.

 
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It should be an easy riding for them to find a candidate and it should be a riding where they have a strong EDA, so who knows what's up. I'd be worried if there's still no candidate by this time next week, unless there's already a schedule nomination meeting time set.
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The Liberals have selected Holly Rasky as their candidate in Toronto Centre, as per their Candidates page.
 
Ontario's four major party leaders will take part in a live studio debate on Feb. 17, 10 days before voters go to the polls.

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, NDP Leader Marit Stiles, Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner will take part in the televised debate, which runs from 6:30-8 p.m. ET.

David Common, the host of CBC Radio's Metro Morning, will moderate the Family Day event. Siobhan Morris and Colin D'Mello, the Queen's Park Bureau Chiefs for CTV News and Global News, will join Common to pose questions to the candidates.

There will not be a live audience for the debate.

The debate is being run by a broadcast partnership consisting of CBC, CTV, Global, TVO, CHCH, CPAC, CityNews, CP24 and OMNI News.

It will also be simulcast on various radio stations across the province.
 
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On Family Day?
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Yes. Might distrurpt some's day off but I think the debate being on Family Day may ironically help voter turnout if people tune in. That's the challenge cause we all know what happened in 2022... people didn't vote or pay attention. This gives a chance to get people to tune in.
 
thettctransitfanatic said:
Yes. Might disturpt some's day off but I think the debate being on Family Day may ironically help voter turnout if people tune in. That's the challenge cause we all know what happened in 2022... people didn't vote or pay attention. This gives a chance to get people to tune in.
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It wasn't about the disruption.

Family Day is a Provincial Stat Holiday. It's why I was surprised they chose that day.
 
Richard White said:
It wasn't about the disruption.

Family Day is a Provincial Stat Holiday. It's why I was surprised they chose that day.
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It is surprising but think about it logically. Yes it's a holiday but people are off from work. If you are the consortium of broadcasters (CBC, CTV, Global, TVO, CHCH, CPAC, CityNews, CP24 and OMNI News and radio stations), you want the viewers to tune in for ratings and if you're the debate organizers, you want more people to watch and participate in democracy after the low turnout of 2022. So it makes sense in a weird way, the holiday notwithstanding, which yes arguably is a day normally you wouldn't see a debate, but it's been 40+ years since we had a winter election in Ontario in the first place and there was no Family Day back then until McGuinty! There is also a Northern debate on Friday (Valentines Day), at 1 PM EST and it will be only livestreamed online, but that's exclusively for Northern Ontario related issues while the Family Day one will be a general debate.
 
I think it's actually a good night for the debate. Because it's a holiday, a lot of the activities people would be going to on a weeknight (classes, sports, practices, etc.) will be canceled, giving people more opportunity to tune in. It's not like people are out doing actual big family gatherings on Family Day.
 
While I certainly don't agree with everything they've put out, I found the Green Party's platform an interesting and mostly agreeable read.

Whether you're considering voting for them or not, I would encourage people to read the document as I would for the other parties as well, because, if nothing else, you may find an interesting idea you can champion w/the party of your choosing.

The whole document is 60 pages so I can't really do much that's useful w/excerpts.

Full Platform:


Lots in there, big and small, in terms of housing as I think that's a very UT subject:

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And a bunch more.

The costing of the platform is here:


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Analysis of each item would be laborious posting and reading, so instead, I'll offer to provide my take on any given plank on request.
 
Really disappointed to see my city's mayor, Rob Burton, come out in support of Doug Ford because of his staunch resistance to building multiplexes and denser housing near transit and bus routes.

Within the first couple seconds of the video.
 
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