Canadians have been fed a steady diet of climate noise — photo-ops, grand announcements, and lofty targets — none of which have translated into serious emissions reductions.
As many debate the immediate future of the Conservative Party, including whether Poilievre should remain at its helm, Conservatives confront a more existential threat: can the party avoid fracture?
Should the Conservatives stick with their defeated leader, they could forgo a brutal struggle of a leadership contest that would exacerbate the ideological rift within the party.
A reader asked our fact-checkers to dig in to a Facebook post that claims the Conservative Party of Canada played a role in Donald Trump's return to the White House. Here's what we found.
Every time Danielle Smith and Preston Manning open their mouths, they remind people that they’re willing — proud, even — to put Alberta first. So far, at least, that's been bad news for Pierre Poilievre.
The Liberals are selling their leader as the problem-solver who helped Canada navigate the Great Recession. Stephen Harper and other critics contend that he oversells his role in the crisis. Who's telling the truth?
At Poilievre’s largest rally yet, his greatest strength reveals his greatest weakness. While the campaign is trying to distance him from Donald Trump, who is wildly unpopular in Canada, many of his supporters feel differently. “I like what Trump’s doing,” one attendee said. “I actually wish he’d go harder.”
Northern Gateway is a dead letter being written to a past that no longer exists, one that trades on a vision of the future in which global demand for fossil fuels will grow without end and supplies are constrained by geology or geopolitics.
He's baaaaaack. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is now the chairman of Alberta's Investment Management Corporation. Next up? A renewed push for an Alberta pension plan.
At a summit in Hungary last month organized by the right wing Heritage Foundation and Danube Institute, head of the Canadian Gas Association Timothy Egan delivered a pro-fossil fuel, anti-climate change speech that railed against the push to cut emissions.
Bruce Heyman, who served as ambassador from 2014 to 2017, gave Canada a “tsunami warning,” saying if Trump takes the White House, Canada is at great risk.
An influential hub for Canadian conservatives is bringing far-right American provocateur Chris Rufo to Alberta to share his vision for the conservative movement. Experts tell Canada's National Observer he's a master at exploding fringe issues into the mainstream, which spells bad news for progressive policies.