Stephanie Smyth once covered Doug Ford on the news. Now she faces him in the Ontario legislature

In the early days of Doug Ford’s first term as Ontario Premier, Stephanie Smyth says she used to get phone calls from him, voicing his displeasure about the news coverage on her TV channel, CP24.

As CP24’s anchor and managing editor, she said she would always take the Premier’s calls to hear what he had to say.