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Scott Stinson: Please stop the gravy plane, I want to get off

Scott Stinson: Please stop the gravy plane, I want to get off

Eventually the opposition parties at Queen's Park will have to stop talking about Doug Ford's ill-fated purchase of a private jet for his travels. But...

14.05.2026 10

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Scott Stinson

Scott Stinson: An outsider again, federal MP Nate Erskine-Smith appeals loss in Ontario Liberal race

Scott Stinson: An outsider again, federal MP Nate Erskine-Smith appeals loss in Ontario Liberal race

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12.05.2026 10

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Scott Stinson: Nate Erskine-Smith's race to challenge Doug Ford crashes at the first hurdle. Will he stay on as an MP?

Winning the Liberal nomination was supposed to be a first step in a march to the Premier's office. Instead it was a significant stumble

11.05.2026 10

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Scott Stinson: Spending scandal at Conestoga College is a reminder of Canada's shameful international student boom

Inflated salaries for a former president, luxury trips and expensive meals were some of the instances of misspending uncovered by an audit

09.05.2026 20

National Post

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Scott Stinson: The troublesome Liberal MP who wants to shake up Ontario politics

08.05.2026 10

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Ontario's crackdown on drugs on public transit has been a long time coming

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06.05.2026 10

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Scott Stinson: How one Toronto suburb became a case study in the challenges of building new housing

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05.05.2026 30

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Scott Stinson: Doug Ford is a free-market champion. Except for this one

By effectively killing the resale ticket market, the Ontario government is creating a host of new problems

29.04.2026 10

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Drake's Toronto ice ‘sculpture’ a grim, confusing lesson in viral publicity

No longer do people rush downtown because Drake might be doing something cool like holding an impromptu concert. Now they rush there because he made...

23.04.2026 10

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Scott Stinson: Why surveillance pricing is the hot new political villain

‘Big Tech using AI to drive up your grocery prices’ is a sentence practically engineered to set off alarm bells

23.04.2026 20

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Ontario MPPs blast Doug Ford over aborted plans for $28.9M private jet

Two days of bad headlines, helped by the fact that ‘Gravy Plane’ made for excellent copy, was enough to cause Ford to explain that, upon further...

20.04.2026 10

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Scott Stinson: Ontario buys $28.9M private jet for Premier Doug Ford's travel

Doug Ford's office defended the private jet as important for his travel, but critics say it's out of touch

17.04.2026 10

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Ontario to let provincial park visitors drink alcohol at (gasp!) picnic sites and beaches

For a guy who is well-known as a non-drinker, the Progressive Conservative Premier sure does want to make it easier for the rest of us

15.04.2026 10

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Ontario plans to keep school trustees, but make them powerless

There have been so many cases of runaway spending that cutting up their credit cards was always going to be a popular option. Or at least not an...

13.04.2026 10

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Doug Ford gets closer to the (Liberal) majority he covets

Ford would have been heartened by news that Carney had taken a step closer to majority status by adding Marilyn Gladu to his expanding Liberal tent

10.04.2026 20

National Post

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FIFA takes a page from Trump’s playbook to justify World Cup ticket prices

07.01.2026 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

New Year, new Ontario Liberal Party? It’ll take more than resolutions

03.01.2026 20

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

New Year, new Ontario Liberal Party? It’ll take more than resolutions

03.01.2026 20

The Star

Scott Stinson

The NDP was wise not to trigger an election. Now the party can focus on staying alive

20.11.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

The NDP was wise not to trigger an election. Now the party can focus on staying alive

20.11.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

Take it from a suburban GTA driver: Doug Ford’s toll-free Highway 407 is just not working

22.10.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

Think Trump’s stance on immigration looks absurd from a Canadian perspective? Wait till you see it from Europe

25.09.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

Think Trump’s stance on immigration looks absurd from a Canadian perspective? Wait till you see it from Europe

25.09.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

Markham will host the Toronto Indy next year. I live in Markham. This is a very bad idea

09.09.2025 30

The Star

Scott Stinson

Cowardly politicians are refusing to call out paranoid fantasies for what they are

26.08.2025 20

The Star

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Cowardly politicians are refusing to call out paranoid fantasies for what they are

25.08.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

Photo radar is becoming increasingly common. That doesn’t make it any less infuriating

23.08.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Scott Stinson

Am I taking crazy pills, or is Doug Ford still talking about putting a tunnel under Highway 401?

12.08.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

Pierre Poilievre and the Toronto Maple Leafs have more in common than blown leads in spring

29.06.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

It’s time to change the terms of Rogers’ sweetheart hockey deal with the CBC

13.06.2025 20

The Star

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Doug Ford doesn’t hate bike lanes. He’s just a suburbanite

24.05.2025 10

The Star

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Tariffs may put money in U.S. coffers — but there’s still one thing Trump won’t acknowledge about that

14.05.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

Trump keeps showing us the cracks in his harebrained schemes. It’s useful information for those who have to negotiate with him

07.05.2025 20

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

This is where Pierre Poilievre is losing the campaign

27.04.2025 20

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

This is where Pierre Poilievre is losing the campaign

27.04.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

Canadians are laser-focused on Trump. After a spotty decade of Liberal government, that suits Carney just fine

14.04.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson