Patrick Brown Archive
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Patrick Brown intends to drop out of Ontario PC leadership race, campaign sources say
Posted on 26.02.2018 | No Comments'The last few days … have been exceptionally unbearable,' said the campaign official. 'Family trumps everything … They don’t feel safe any more' -
Party source says Patrick Brown must undergo Ontario Tories vetting only because he was stripped of his riding nomination
Posted on 20.02.2018 | No CommentsAs an approved candidate for re-election in Simcoe North, Brown would otherwise have been exempt from the assessment, the source said -
Caroline Mulroney pledges to make up for billions in carbon-tax revenue by cutting government waste
Posted on 09.02.2018 | No CommentsShe highlighted hydro rates as a key affordability issue, and suggested the Ontario PCs would need to 'fix the structural problem' of the system -
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s approval is so low the provincial Tories are in supermajority territory: poll
Posted on 25.11.2016 | No CommentsWynne's personal approval has fallen to 13 per cent, a new low, and Forum Research finds the Progressive Conservatives just need to coast until the next election -
Patrick Brown says it was a ’mistake’ to pledge to scrap Liberal sex-ed changes
Posted on 30.08.2016 | No CommentsBrown writes that the Scarborough-Rouge River campaign letter went 'too far' -
Ontario PCs face big changes under Patrick Brown, an enigmatic Tory leader who supports carbon tax
Posted on 07.03.2016 | No CommentsHis teardown of the old party complete, Brown began on the weekend to build in its place something bigger, greener — and more open-concept -
‘We’re going to be ready in every God damn riding’: Ontario Conservatives unveil new logo, change in tactics
Posted on 05.03.2016 | No CommentsThe once-mighty Tories abandoned wide swaths of the province and alienated would-be Conservative voters simply by targeting only 'winnable' ridings in the past -
Ontario Liberals set to reveal fees, locations for high-occupancy toll lanes by new year
Posted on 03.11.2015 | No CommentsOntario motorists will know by the end of the year exactly where the government intends to establish HOT lanes and what the fees will be for using them -
Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown wins byelection and a seat in the legislature
Posted on 04.09.2015 | No CommentsProgressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown has won a seat in the Ontario legislature in a byelection four months after winning the party leadership -
Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown to run for a seat at Queen’s Park, but he must wait until after the federal election
Posted on 22.07.2015 | No CommentsSimcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop resigned his seat effective Aug. 1, but the governing Liberals say they won't call the byelection until after the federal vote in October -
How Patrick Brown took charge of the Ontario Tories and why Liberals shouldn’t dismiss him — yet
Posted on 09.05.2015 | No CommentsThe relatively unknown MP for Barrie won the PC leadership the old-fashioned way: on the ground. Success he just might replicate in the 2018 election -
Ontario PC leadership candidates would take party down divergent paths
Posted on 02.05.2015 | No CommentsThe ballot question is whether the party wants to take a centrist, progressive turn or continue down a more rightward path, but with the organizational zeal of the federal Tories
