Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer asked Canada’s embittered military veterans to welcome his party back into their hearts Sunday after a tumultuous 13 years of what many former soldiers consider betrayals by both the Harper and Trudeau governments. As prime minister, Scheer said, he would personally preside over a Conservative plan to clear a growing backlog […]
It won’t be campaigning as usual for Justin Trudeau Thursday as a third instance of the Liberal leader wearing skin-darkening makeup has emerged. A video of Trudeau in blackface, first reported by Global News, came to light just hours after the prime minister apologized profusely for having indulged in what he acknowledged was a […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Wednesday he will start to pay for his promised $9 billion in tax cuts by finding a way to cut $1.5 billion from annual subsidies to Canadian corporations. Scheer spent most of Wednesday campaigning at small businesses in Hamilton and Richmond Hill, Ont., trying to drill home his campaign theme […]
With week one of the election campaign complete, a Leger poll conducted for The Canadian Press puts the Liberals and Conservatives in a virtual tie. The Liberals are holding steady at 34 per cent support while the Tories have dipped two points to 33 per cent. But when it comes to who would make the […]
Justin Trudeau skipped the first debate of the federal election campaign to hold a rally in Edmonton, but an empty podium stood in for the Liberal leader. Trudeau was the primary target of opposition leaders Thursday night, but his rivals still managed to bloody one another in the process. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said New […]
An election campaign sure to feature plenty of pocketbook promises got underway instead amid deeper questions of ethics and values Wednesday as federal leaders challenged Canadians to consider the kind of country they want to vote for 40 days from now. A front-page story about the SNC-Lavalin affair cast a pall over Justin Trudeau’s Liberal […]
It did not take long for the attacks against Justin Trudeau to start from Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer as the federal election campaign is officially underway. Scheer says he plans on showing Canadians how Trudeau has misled them. “He has lied. He has looked Canadians in the eyes and said things he knew was not […]
Canadians will elect a new government on Monday, October 21 as Justin Trudeau officially called a Federal Election on Wednesday morning. The Liberal Leader met with the Governor General this morning to dissolve the 42nd parliament. He will now attempt to convince Canadians over the next five-and-a-half weeks why his party should have a second […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to call the next federal election Wednesday morning. He’s to visit Rideau Hall at 10 a.m. local time to ask Gov. Gen. Julie Payette to dissolve Parliament. By law, voting day is set for Oct. 21, but the prime minister has a two-week window starting Sept. 1 in which to […]
Andrew Scheer said Thursday that the Liberals are trying to distract from their record of failure by dredging up divisive social issues and a government he leads would not reopen the debates on abortion or same-sex marriage. But the Conservative leader did not rule out giving latitude to individual MPs seeking to express themselves on […]
