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margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Greenbelt battle is over, but the political war is just beginning.</p></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Will it be the end of Doug Ford?</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 70.110291px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Very possibly the answer depends on how you respond to a bigger question, today and again on election day in 2026: Is this the worst of times or the best of times?</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 70.110291px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">By any conventional measure, the premier is bleeding support. His credibility is shot, his integrity under fire, his electability and survivability at stake.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 97.169113px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ford faced bruising attacks in the legislature Monday as returning opposition MPPs pounced on a summer of cascading scandal. 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We were sold a pipe dream — a great education, you’ll get a great job, you’ll be able to buy a home or rent the apartment that you want, and raise your family,” she told the audience at Toronto Metropolitan University. “That’s not true today.”</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 405.992645px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Asked and answered. 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