Signs are pointing to a civil war breaking out within the Conservative party, but breaking down along different lines than past internal battles that divided the party ideologically.
"How can any worker in the country vote Conservative?” asks the head of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, which represents 140,000 public servants.
A research team in the province's northwest is touching on some of the most polarized debates going on in the country: from climate change to the potential dangers of transporting — and spilling — oil.
The federal party leaders have spent the first days of the election campaign talking policy, as they'd like, and dismissing and defending candidates over old social-media posts, which they'd rather not.
