Ontario goes to the polls on Thursday. Voters in the province can vote in-person from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at one of more than 7,000 voting locations across the province as Doug Ford, Bonnie Crombie, Marit Stiles and Mike Schreiner vie to be premier. Follow the Star’s live coverage all day on Thursday.
When do the polls open and close?
Polls will open at 9 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. on Feb. 27, per Elections Ontario. Between those hours, you can vote in-person at one of the province’s more than 7,000 voting locations, which are commonly housed at schools, places of worship and community centres, among others.
How can you vote in Ontario’s election while out of the province or country?
Here’s what you need to know about casting your vote if you’ll be outside of the province or country leading up to the election.
Read the full story from the Star’s Serena Austin
What’s the Toronto weather forecast for voting day?
Toronto voters should remember to pack an umbrella along with their voter information cards this Thursday.
Environment Canada is calling for a chance of snow or rain on election day in the GTA, with temperatures hovering just above freezing.
Read the full story from the Star’s Anastasia Blosser and Joyce Li
What you need to know about voting on election day
Though voters have been able to cast their vote early, day-of voting remains a vital and rich tradition for those seeking to make their voices heard at the ballot box.
Here’s everything you need to know about voting in-person on election day in Ontario.
Read the full story from the Star’s Hayden Godfrey
Get to know the party leaders in under 2 minutes each
With less than a week to go in the Ontario election, watch these videos to get up to speed on the four major party leaders, their political experience and some personal facts in under two minutes each.
Ontario election promise tracker
Ontario is heading to the polls Feb. 27 and we’re tracking what each party is promising ahead of the Ontario election.
All four provincial party leaders have now put forth plans to support Ontario through U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plans along with pledges to improve affordability, build schools and more.
Here’s what else the Progressive Conservatives, NDP, Liberals and Greens have pledged since the start of the campaign.
A guide to the Ontario election’s most dramatic ridings to watch
There are 124 ridings in Ontario and each is represented by one MPP in the legislature. But some ridings have higher stakes and more drama than others.
Here are 10 to watch across the province when the ballots are tallied in the Feb. 27 Ontario election.
Read the full story from the Star’s Rob Ferguson
Doug Ford’s Tories poised to win another majority, poll suggests
Doug Ford‘s Progressive Conservatives are poised to win a third straight majority in Thursday’s provincial election, a new poll suggests.
But the Abacus Data survey for the Star indicates Bonnie Crombie’s Liberals could leapfrog Marit Stiles’ New Democrats into second place forming Official Opposition.
In the final poll of the campaign, Ford’s Tories were at 46 per cent support, well ahead of Crombie’s Liberals at 29 per cent, Stiles’s New Democrats at 16 per cent and Mike Schreiner’s Greens at five per cent.
Read the full story from the Star’s Robert Benzie
Bonnie Crombie endorses Mark Carney as federal Liberal leader
Bonnie Crombie is endorsing Mark Carney to be federal Liberal leader.
As first reported by the Star, the Ontario Liberal chief said Carney has her backing to be the next prime minister.
Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, is the front-runner to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the March 9 leadership contest.
Read the full story from the Star’s Robert Benzie
Doug Ford promised to end hallway medicine. But Ontario’s ER wait times have gotten worse in the past three years, confidential report shows
We’ve all heard the stories: Your neighbour who waited almost 12 hours in agony to see if her appendix needed to be removed. An elderly woman with a suspected brain bleed lying on a stretcher for eight hours. A 99-year-old who waited four hours for an ambulance after collapsing on the floor of her retirement home.
They all got the care they needed, eventually. But the long waits they had to endure are illustrative of a disturbing trend happening in Ontario emergency departments, borne out by data that has never been made public.
According to an internal provincial report obtained by the Star, Ontario patients visiting EDs in the past three years waited longer than they did in the previous 13 years.
Read the full story from the Star’s Kenyon Wallace and Megan Ogilvie
Did Doug Ford deliver on his promises to fix Ontario health care? From hospitals to long-term care and mental health, here’s what’s changed
Health care remains a top concern for many voters as they head to the polls to vote for Ontario’s next government.
Ending “hallway health care” and improving the provincial health-care system were big promises in the Progressive Conservative Party’s campaign in 2018.
How effective has the PC government been at delivering better health care for Ontarians since they came to power?
Read the full story from the Star’s Joy SpearChief-Morris
Ontario election debate recap
Doug Ford, Bonnie Crombie, Marit Stiles and Mike Schreiner square off over family doctors, housing, Ontario place and more.
