Stephen Harper

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole reversed his predecessor's position on foreign aid spending on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, saying that if elected, a Conservative government wouldn't cut that budget.

Alberta and its allies are in the province's highest court trying to have the federal government's environmental assessment act declared unconstitutional.

Black Conservatives energized by the rising star of Leslyn Lewis hope to use her unexpectedly robust leadership bid to bolster Black representation in the party's ranks.

Alberta has signed an agreement with the federal government that makes major cuts to environmental monitoring of the oilsands.

There is a new lead in the case of the missing icebreaker, though exactly how the story will end remains to be seen.

"We're not the problem. We can throw all our car keys in Halifax harbour, turn down the heat, turn off the lights, walk around naked in the dark eating organic beets and it won't make a difference." - Peter MacKay, Conservative Party leadership hopeful, February 2020 as reported by CBC