During the election campaign, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has been met by a number of young supporters who have not only wished her well, but given her handmade cards and drawings that she displays aboard her campaign bus.

Chiara, who is 4, presented Horwath with a “Good Luck Andrea” card on Tuesday during a campaign stop in Cambridge.

“She’d been asking about all the different-coloured signs” up on people’s lawns, said her dad, Lee Sperduti, who explained that the signs were for the June 7 provincial election.

After he learned Horwath would be visiting the area, “I explained what the job is — to help everyone in the province,” said Sperduti, who ran as an independent in the 2015 federal election.

“She said she wanted to wish her luck.”

Chiara not only presented Horwath with her card, but got a quick tour of the campaign bus before helping put it up on display.

A questionable claim

As far as campaign claims go, this one was a stretch.

At a news conference Tuesday, where he fielded questions about a lawsuit filed against him by his sister-in-law, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford said he’s offered the most access to media of any major party leader.

That came as a surprise to reporters who regularly follow him, and are lucky to get a shot at asking him one of the five questions allowed each day in tightly controlled scrums where a Ford handler controls the microphone.

“No matter where I am in the province, no matter if it’s local media up north or down there, I have full access,” Ford said. “I’ve probably had more media access than both the (other leaders) combined. I’m there. I see you every day. I’ll see you tomorrow. I’ll see you this afternoon.”

By way of contrast, Horwath and Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne have been taking as many questions as journalists want to ask, several times a day, often for 20 minutes at a stretch.

The grandparents have it

At Queen’s Park, Wynne and Liberal campaign chair Deb Matthews liked to joke that “the grandmothers are in charge.”

So it was appropriate that Wynne campaigned in Matthews’s former riding of London North Centre at a new café called Margo and Tuffy, which is named after owner Angela Rivard’s two grandmothers.

“What an amazing name for a place. Margo and Tuffy are the grandmothers of Angela and I think that is a lovely place to start in terms of this election and what we’re all fighting for in this room,” said the Liberal leader as Matthews stood beaming in the front row.

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Rivard said that while she’s “not a political person,” she welcomes “anyone who’s kind” into her store.

The restaurant specializes in healthy local food and boasts a Bobb salad, which is named after “Tuffy’s crush” — hockey great Bobby Hull.

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