Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford said Thursday he will honour Ontario's commitment to the burgeoning electric vehicle sector if re-elected, while his main political rivals were less definitive.

Today the 2025 Ontario election campaign launched, where all of the province's major parties began their pitches to form the next government.

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles launched her campaign in Toronto, pitching herself as the best person to fight back against Mr. Trump, while Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie appeared in Barrie, an hour north of Toronto, and focused on improving health care. Both have dismissed the early election as needless.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has officially called an early election and said he has an economic action plan to respond to potentially devastating U.S. tariffs. But he said the strategy would only be unveiled gradually over the course of the month-long snap campaign.

An online gambling brand that operates in Ontario is reversing course on an apparent proposed offering that could have let people place wagers on the future of Canada.

For Doug Ford, this will be the top issue of the campaign and the one he is likely to focus on — and he likely hopes voters will focus on it, too. Amid political chaos in Ottawa, the provincial leader has been at the forefront of Canada’s pushback as Trump threatens 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods.

Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford pitched himself Wednesday as the best steward of the economy in the face of looming tariffs, but the other party leaders say his record from the last seven years suggests otherwise.

Ontario’s take-no-prisoners Premier Doug Ford is threatening to ban U.S. alcohol in stores and cut power to American homes and businesses close to the border in his war on Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs.

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.

Ontario's political party leaders are fanning out across the province today for their first official day on the snowy campaign trail.

TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Ontario, Canada's most populous province, said Friday that he would call an early election, because he says he needs a mandate to fight U.S. President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs.