Ontario Premier Doug Ford has officially triggered an early provincial election, set for Feb. 27, after visiting Lt.-Gov. Edith Dumont on Tuesday to ask her to dissolve parliament. She accepted his request.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford officially set a provincial election in motion Tuesday for Feb. 27, more than a year before the next fixed election date. The election had been set for June 2026, but Ford said he needs a new mandate to deal with four years of a Donald Trump presidency in the United States.

Doug Ford will launch his reelection campaign in Windsor on Wednesday with remarks at 10 a.m., followed by a media availability with reporters.

Got. Edith Dumont has dissolved provincial parliament following Doug Ford’s request, triggering early election call on Wednesday.

Ford is taking Ontarians to the polls amid political instability in Ottawa after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced that he would resign.

The Ford government has “retained an engineering company” to begin design work on removing bike lanes in Toronto. Mayor Olivia Chow and a cycling advocacy group still have hope that he’ll reverse course.

The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario has accepted Premier Doug Ford's ask to dissolve the legislature for an early election that will officially begin on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford makes an announcement in Toronto with Minister Greg Rickford and Chief of Aroland First Nation Sonny Gagnon. Watch LIVE here.

Crombie told Global News Radio 640 Toronto Tuesday she will run in Mississauga East-Cooksville — a riding held by Kaleed Rasheed, a former Progressive-Conservative (PC) minister who left the party in 2023 over a Greenbelt-adjacent scandal.

Alexander Burns is head of news at POLITICO. He has covered elections and political power across the U.S. for over a decade and co-wrote a best-selling book about Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Premier Doug Ford is planning to call a provincial election next Wednesday, which would send Ontarians to the polls on Feb. 27, a senior Progressive Conservative source has confirmed to CBC News.The planned election call would follow months of speculation that Ford wanted to face voters before the fixed 2026 date.