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Chris Selley: A cavalcade of bad news for Doug Ford

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford had had a borderline absurd run of good luck: For most of his nearly eight-year tenure, according to the Angus Reid Institute’s polling, he has been Canada’s least or second-least popular premier — and his main rival in that race to the bottom, Quebec’s François Legault, is now an ex-premier.

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When Ontarians next vote for a government, it will probably be a Liberal one. The official Opposition New Democrats know that better than anyone. Yet Ford has never faced a non-interim Liberal leader in the legislature in his eight years as premier, because neither of the party’s two leaders during that time managed to win a seat. The Liberals won’t have a new leader until November, some 10 months after Bonnie Crombie’s resignation, and the way that leadership race is shaping up, the winner is unlikely to hold a seat at Queen’s Park, either.

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In recent days, though, you could start to see what the end of this lucky streak might look like. After eight years, every government has........

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