Justin Trudeau‘s combative attitude to some provincial premiers may not be just campaign rhetoric — his platform is promising to turn it into government policy if the Liberals are re-elected. The platform takes a hard line on what the Liberals see as provincial foot-dragging on eliminating internal trade barriers and identifying priority infrastructure projects that […]
A federal Conservative candidate in Saskatchewan says he has a prior conviction for impaired driving. Warren Steinley, who is running in Regina Lewvan, says in a statement that it happened more than 20 years ago when he was 19. The former Saskatchewan Party MLA for Regina Walsh Acres says he took responsibility for the offence […]
University students who came out for the Federal NDP Leader’s campaign stop in Saskatoon say the NDP’s platform is for the people. Among the NDP’s promises are to extend full public dental coverage and to change the way Canada does procurement. Singh also outlined reasons why he believes the procurement process in Canada needs to […]
If you are a registered voter, you should be getting a card telling you all the information you need to know when it comes to what to do on election day which is Monday, October 21. Marie-France Kenny of Elections Canada says cards have been put in the mail and they should be in your […]
The Liberals, Conservatives and New Democrats spent the day at the halfway point of the federal election campaign in their comfort zones. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau talked about gun control. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promised to improve access to a tax credit, this time for people with disabilities. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh promised, once again, […]
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau travelled to the heart of Doug Ford country Sunday, promising armloads of Liberal government largesse to university students in hopes of tapping into deep-seated anger over the Ontario premier’s cuts to education. A re-elected Liberal government would increase student grants by 40 per cent and give new graduates two years to […]
The founder of what was the Reform Party of Canada is concerned that a pervasive level of alienation could leave the country more divided after next month’s federal election. Preston Manning, who channelled western alienation into the creation of the Reform party in 1987, told the Canadian Club of Calgary that there is a lot […]
Long-simmering political differences over climate change boiled over into a series of personal attacks between the Liberal and Conservative leaders on the campaign trail Tuesday. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau characterized his Conservative opponent Andrew Scheer as a do-nothing denier of climate change, lumping him in with other political opponents such as Jason Kenney and Doug […]
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 […]
(Files from CJWW) The first leader of the major parties in the October 21st federal election to visit Saskatchewan was Justin Trudeau. The Liberal Leader was in Saskatoon Thursday evening for a campaign rally at the Delta Bessborough hotel. Trudeau was greeted with a cheer by his supporters before questions about the carbon tax, Indigenous […]
