{"id":29083,"date":"2025-02-15T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/party-leaders-to-tackle-northern-issues-in-first-debate-of-campaign\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:30:13","slug":"party-leaders-to-tackle-northern-issues-in-first-debate-of-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/party-leaders-to-tackle-northern-issues-in-first-debate-of-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Party leaders to tackle northern issues in first debate of campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NORTH BAY, ONT. \u2014 Ontario\u2019s main party leaders will square off on northern issues today in their first debate of the election campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, NDP Leader Marit Stiles, Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner \u00a0have all travelled to North Bay, Ont., for the debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event hosted by the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities is set to begin at 1 p.m. at Canadore College.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stiles announced her northern platform, which includes promises of more doctors and affordable homes for the north, on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crombie has also pledged to bring more doctors to northern communities, as part of her promise to get everyone in the province a family doctor within four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The snap election Ford called will be held on Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\" https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/joc\/canadian-construction-tenders\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-431805\" src=\"https:\/\/cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/02\/600X350_New2.png\" alt=\"-\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/02\/600X350_New2.png 600w, https:\/\/cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/02\/600X350_New2-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2025\/02\/ontario-votes-party-leaders-to-tackle-northern-issues-in-first-debate-of-campaign\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] NORTH BAY, ONT. \u2014 Ontario\u2019s main party leaders will square off on northern issues today in their first debate &#8230; <a title=\"Party leaders to tackle northern issues in first debate of campaign\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/party-leaders-to-tackle-northern-issues-in-first-debate-of-campaign\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Party leaders to tackle northern issues in first debate of campaign\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-29083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}