{"id":836660,"date":"2025-03-25T13:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/editorial-fords-big-win-cements-his-legacy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:12:25","slug":"editorial-fords-big-win-cements-his-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/editorial-fords-big-win-cements-his-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL: Ford\u2019s big win cements his legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s gamble that voters wouldn\u2019t punish him for holding an unnecessary election paid off on Thursday as they returned him to Queen\u2019s Park with a third consecutive majority government following previous victories in 2018 and 2022. Ford and his Progressive Conservative party escaped the fate of the last Ontario premier who called [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/editorials\/editorial-fords-big-win-cements-his-legacy\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Postmedia News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s gamble that voters wouldn\u2019t punish him for holding an unnecessary election paid off on Thursday as they returned him to Queen\u2019s Park with a third consecutive majority government following previous victories in 2018 and 2022. Ford and his Progressive Conservative party escaped the fate of the last Ontario premier who called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1387,22240,192],"tags":[8473,11752],"class_list":{"0":"post-836660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorial","8":"category-fords","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-editorial","11":"tag-fords"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}