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TORONTO — Ontario’s political party leaders are fanning out across the province today for their first official day on the snowy campaign trail.
Ford has said he needs a new mandate to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump’s new administration and to spend tens of billions of dollars in response to threatened tariffs. NDP Leader Marit Stiles is starting her day at a community hub in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood. The Liberal candidate in Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte is Rose Zacharias, an emergency and family doctor as well as past president of the Ontario Medical Association. The party is touting her as one of its star candidates and named her as campaign co-chair.
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