As we close in on Christmas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seeing his popularity go up a little. Compared to last fall, Trudeau’s numbers went up 5 percent, mostly attributed to his testimony at the public inquiry into the use of the emergencies act. Trudeau sits at 43 percent support. On the other side of […]
Delegates attending the legislative assembly of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan unanimously supported their leadership’s rejection of The Saskatchewan First Act. The legislation looks to unilaterally amend the Constitution to reassert the province’s jurisdiction over its natural resources, but has already been opposed by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations who say it ignores treaty rights. The […]
A new poll suggests a plurality of Canadians still believe Justin Trudeau is still the best man for the job of prime minister, but he has only a slight lead over new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Leger has released the findings of an online survey conducted over the weekend with around 1,500 respondents. The results suggest the Liberals’ […]
Tria Donaldson After finishing second her riding of Regina-Lewvan, Tria Donaldson says he is happy with her campaign. She adds considering she ran her first-ever campaign in the middle of a pandemic, she’s proud of the work she did. “I’m really happy with the campaign we ran, with the ground game we built, and considering […]
Longtime NDP MLA Buckley Belanger is resigning his seat to take a run at federal politics. Belanger announced today he is going to seek the Liberal nomination in Desnethe-Missisippi-Churchill River which is current;y held by Gary Vidal of the Conservatives. That riding has not been held by a Liberal since 2007. Belanger says he is […]
We now know who is Ralph Goodale’s successor as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Regina-Wascana. Sean McEachern has been acclaimed to the position. McEachern, who was a special assistant to Goodale when he was the federal finance minister, has also served with SUMA and has been the president of both the University of […]
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole said his party doesn’t have confidence in the Liberal government, but that doesn’t mean every issue needs to turn into a confidence vote. Yet, his party is using its second chance this week to set Parliament’s agenda to propose a motion calling for a sweeping probe by the House of Commons […]
The country is again being pushed to the brink of an election, over a demand by the Opposition Conservatives that a committee be set up to probe allegations of the misuse of public funds on COVID-19 relief programs. The Liberals declared Tuesday that the vote on the Tories’ motion to create the committee will be […]
Former prime minister John Turner, whose odyssey from a “Liberal dream in motion” to a political anachronism spanned 30 years, has died at the age of 91. Marc Kealey, a former aide speaking on behalf of Turner’s relatives as a family friend, says Turner died peacefully in his sleep at home in Toronto on Friday […]
A growing number of business and labour groups are urging the federal Liberals to up their promised wage subsidy to help companies hit hard by COVID-19 keep people on their payrolls. The latest salvo came from the United Steelworkers union on Tuesday morning, around the same time the Canadian Federation of Independent Business panned the […]
