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Young NDP candidates cut their teeth in short campaign

Two of the NDP’s youngest candidates are learning the ropes in Toronto ridings where incumbent politicians seem secure, allowing them to explore the mechanics of electioneering and party politics in their first campaigns.

Election 2021

By Morgan Sharp | News, Politics, Next Gen Insider | September 15th 2021

Justin Trudeau outside Rideau Cottage on March 18, 2020. Photo by Kamara Morozuk

What Nova Scotia’s election does (and doesn’t) mean for Justin Trudeau

The Nova Scotia PCs have more in common with the 2015 Trudeau Liberals than the 2021 O’Toole Conservatives, given they won their election by outflanking their provincial competitors to the left on everything from climate change to health-care spending, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Opinion

Election 2021

By Max Fawcett | Opinion, Politics | August 19th 2021

Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper gives a speech in 2020. Photo: Stephen Harper's Facebook

Rex Murphy misses Stephen Harper — but Canada’s Conservatives shouldn’t

If the Conservatives want to win an election in the future instead of just continuing to reminisce about the ones they won in the past, they’re going to need to put Stephen Harper and his political legacy behind them for good, says columnist Max Fawcett.

Opinion

By Max Fawcett | Opinion | August 10th 2021

O’Toole’s Conservative Party fracturing on eve of a federal election

If Erin O’Toole’s party suffers major losses in the next election, it won’t be a result of his leadership, but due to a party at odds with itself on central policy issues and divided along regional lines, writes Andrew Perez.

Opinion

By Andrew Perez | Opinion | August 10th 2021

What carbon activists can learn from the campaign to end asbestos production in Canada

One of the difficulties of trying to stop fossil fuel production in Canada is many groups soft-pedal the real problem — the end use of the product, writes Ross Belot.

Opinion

By Ross Belot | Opinion | August 5th 2021

Michele Audette speaks during ceremonies marking the release of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women report in Gatineau, on Monday, June 3, 2019. File photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Senate appointments include Michèle Audette, MMIWG inquiry commissioner

Michèle Audette, one of the commissioners for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, is among the five newest members of the Senate.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | July 30th 2021

Trudeau says Canada will back Ukraine but silent on NATO membership support

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with Canada reiterating its broad support for Ukraine, but not whether it will back a move by Kyiv to join the military alliance amid tensions with Russia.

By Stephanie Taylor | News, Politics | June 14th 2021

Maxime Bernier charged after COVID rules broken in Manitoba

RCMP said Maxime Bernier was charged with exceeding public gathering limits and violating Manitoba's requirement to self-isolate upon entering the province.

Coronavirus in Canada

By Canadian Press | News, Politics | June 11th 2021

Kenney faces internal UCP uprising, calls for him to quit

Simmering internal discontent within Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative caucus has now boiled over into an open challenge to his leadership.

By Dean Bennett | News, Politics | May 13th 2021

Vance may have misled Harper before becoming defence chief: former aide

A former top aide to Stephen Harper suggested on Monday, March 22, 2021, that Gen. Jonathan Vance may have misled the then prime minister when asked about his personal conduct months before his appointment as the Canadian Armed Forces’ commander in 2015.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | March 23rd 2021

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