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Policorner's @AhmadElbayoumi gives @MooreintheAM the latest as Doug Ford acknowledges the PC party sent someone to surveil the former Liberal leader on vacation. Plus: a new poll shows Bonnie Crombie and Carolyn Parrish neck and neck in the Mississauga. https://t.co/k9wV2ekPer

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POLICORNER’s @ahmadelbayoumi joined @sarahgalashan on CBC News Network to break down the Jamaica surveillance trip targeting then-Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie.

Background here: https://t.co/Sa0wDAeQ1P

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Policorner’s @AhmadElbayoumi gives @MooreintheAM the scoop (in collab with The Trillium) that Ontario PC Party's spending on Jamaican resorts was to surveil Bonnie Crombie. Former Premier @Kathleen_Wynne weighs in. https://t.co/OINg2DJjpo

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Premier Doug Ford is justifying his party’s decision to send an opposition researcher to surveil then-Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie while she was on vacation in Jamaica, saying that “it’s politics” and “stuff happens during elections.”

https://t.co/OI6jpyJnAZ

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Ontario PC Party’s spending on Jamaican resorts was to surveil Bonnie Crombie: sources https://t.co/g9qzSEtnTN via @Thetrilliumca and @readpolicorner

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Bonnie Crombie travelled to Jamaica for a three-day vacation in 2023, where sources say the Ontario PC Party paid to send someone to surveil the then-new Liberal leader at the resort where she was staying.

An exclusive with @thetrilliumca:

https://t.co/Sa0wDAeQ1P

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NEW: A big get for Marit Stiles.

Former NDP MPP Monique Taylor will run for the NDP in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, @readpolicorner has learned.

Taylor, who represented Hamilton Mountain from 2011 to 2025, is set to be acclaimed Friday.

More to come: https://t.co/38vGV1XhhN

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The Premier is staring down a serious front-bench reset, while the Ford government is in damage-control mode. The latest: A bigger Billy Bishop is a no-go, while the Tories send a group of interns to comb through AR-1s.

Plus: Stephanie Bowman is running.

https://t.co/vsjvLVx90O

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We’re opening our Queen’s Park bureau this fall, and we couldn’t be more excited.

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[Ahmad Elbayoumi @ahmadelbayoumi]

.@readpolicorner is opening a bureau at Queen’s Park, so here’s some personal news:

I’m thrilled to be joining the Queen’s Park Press Gallery, a superb group of journalists who do the important work of covering our provincial government each day.

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This is a government more concerned with room service than public service, writes NDP leader Marit Stiles on several GTA PC MPPs claiming short-term accommodations in Toronto hotels through a “special circumstances” allowance.

https://t.co/RaLIZMDiGC

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SCOOP: In the days before he quit the race for Liberal leader, someone was looking for Rob Cerjanec. The ex-leadership candidate says public life is “incredibly taxing.” 

Plus: Who’s on Team Bains? We’ve got a list of nearly 1,000 campaign “captains.”

https://t.co/d2RpOIFAqm

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Rob Cerjanec is out of the race for Liberal leader. The latest fundraising numbers are in, and the Tories aren’t slowing down. Plus, get ready for an open nomination contest in Beaches-East York.

https://t.co/pqHINVd3ch

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On the season finale of “The Insiders,” Ahmad, Mitch, Erin and Eric Osborne look ahead to the biggest stories of the summer — from another round of Liberal beef to two by-elections and a looming integrity commissioner report.

https://t.co/mS6QsS7dGF

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It’s Canada Day week, and #onpoli is taking a breather. The Premier is Utah-bound this week, with T-2 days until CUSMA’s expiry. And in Mississauga, the mayoral contest is already drawing blood on social media. Let’s get into it.

https://t.co/sT7odNiFEK

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In the race for Liberal leader, Navdeep Bains is bringing in the big bucks, pulling in nearly half of all cash raised in the contest to date.

https://t.co/XYFy8YboKB

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Ahmad joined @MooreintheAM on @NEWSTALK1010 to chat about this morning’s Mississauga exclusive.

“My sources say she has collected the required signatures, that she has raised the money, and that she will be registering next week.”

Listen here: https://t.co/Sw6vOQA0N1

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SCOOP: Mississauga’s ex-mayor is expected to enter the race against Carolyn Parrish as early as next week.

https://t.co/0cQUVNS23K

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SCOOP: Mississauga’s ex-mayor is expected to enter the race against Carolyn Parrish as early as next week.

https://t.co/0cQUVNS23K

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This week on “The Insiders,” the House is out for the summer — and won’t return until late October. Why such a long break? Mitch, Erin and Sharan hand out their spring session report cards.

Plus, is Toronto ready for FIFA?

https://t.co/0fOqcUxoU6

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Annual MPP spending disclosures are out. Tina Yazdani is taking Rogers to court over her firing. The Liberals are gearing up in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek.

Plus: Olivia Chow met with Nate Erskine-Smith at a hotel near Toronto City Hall on Friday.

https://t.co/3oI5ZyJIY4

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This week on “The Insiders,” Nate Erskine-Smith lost his appeal in Scarborough Southwest. Meanwhile, is Caroline Mulroney’s surprise resignation a sign of trouble for Doug Ford?

Plus, Marit Stiles is going viral, but is social media real life?

https://t.co/C691oPNvnF