Re-elected, newly elected and defeated Liberal MPs will gather Thursday on Parliament Hill for the first time since Canadians clipped the wings of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in the Oct. 21 election. The two-hour get-together is not a formal caucus meeting, just a chance to congratulate winners and commiserate with losers. Nevertheless, it will […]
The thought of western separation in Alberta and Saskatchewan remains high after last month’s federal election and its a thought that is happening nationwide and not just in the two provinces. An Ipsos poll released Tuesday shows six in 10 respondents feel the country is more divided than ever. Ipsos spokesperson Kyle Braid says that […]
More than one-third of Canadians voted strategically in last week’s federal election to stop another party from winning, a new poll suggests. Thirty-five per cent of respondents to the Leger poll said their decision about who to support took into account the chances that their vote would prevent another party’s candidate from being victorious. And […]
Numbers are out from Elections Canada on voter turnout across the country. While Saskatchewan was ahead of the national average of 71.6 percent, fewer people voted in this election than the one four years ago. Just over 570,000 people cast a ballot on Monday in Saskatchewan which was 71.7 percent of eligible voters. In 2015, […]
The Liberals have once more won the most seats in the House of Commons, but this time they do not have an outright majority. So what happens next? With fewer than the 170 seats needed to command the House on their own, Justin Trudeau will need the support of at least one other party to […]
Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals won the election, but his grip is not as firm as it was four years ago as the majority that he received in 2015 was reduced to a majority as they won 21 fewer seats. Despite that, Trudeau was in a celebratory mood as he spoke to supporters in […]
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau broke the campaign deadlock with Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and prevailed in Canada’s 43rd general election on Monday. The Liberals won the most seats but fell short of a second majority government. As the campaign unfolded, the NDP under Jagmeet Singh made significant polling gains, raising his party’s standing across the […]
The campaigning is over and Canadians in some parts of the country have started heading to the polls to cast their ballots in the country’s 43rd general election, which some have described as the nastiest campaign in recent history. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer have spent weeks arguing the decision is […]
The contenders in Monday’s federal election spent the last day of the campaign calling for voters to unite behind their parties amid accusations of dirty politicking and outright lying. From when Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau fired the starting gun on the campaign on Sept. 11, voters have heard a mix of policy promises and warnings […]
