NDP resumes Federal Court fight after BOIE orders NDP MPs to pay back $2.75-million
PARLIAMENT HILL—The NDP is resuming a suspended Federal Court case over allegations its MPs violated House of Commons rules by placing staff on the Parliamentary payroll in satellite offices outside Ottawa, after the powerful internal Commons Board of Internal Economy unexpectedly broke the court truce with a published statement on Feb. 3 saying it […]
Nominated Federal Candidates for 2015 Election So Far
View Conservative Party's candidates View New Democratic Party's candidates View Liberal Party's candidates View Green Party's candidates Conservative Party Candidates Alberta Ziad Aboultaif Edmonton Manning Rona Ambrose Sturgeon River-Parkland John Barlow Foothills Blaine Calkins Red Deer-Lacombe Michael Cooper St. Albert-Edmonton Joan Crockatt Calgary Centre James Cumming Edmonton Centre Kerry Diotte Edmonton Griesbach Earl Dreeshen Red […]
Shut out candidates call parties’ nomination process ‘a farce’
All three major federal political parties claim they’re holding fair, open, and transparent nominations across the country, but several candidates who either ran unsuccessfully or were shut out from running by their parties without being given reasons say the nomination process is a “farce” and needs to be revamped or taken over by Elections Canada. […]
We’re getting into final stages of an election
We’re getting into final stages of an election But what happens in Parliament this session will matter in as much as it helps some voters, more particularly, the unaligned, switchers, non-committed consumers—or whatever you want to call them—form some impression of the leaders seeking to lead them. Tim Powers How time flies! Four years […]
How likely are Liberal gains in southwestern Ontario?
OTTAWA—Liberals travelled to London last week for a two-day caucus meeting. The choice of destination was no accident—southwestern Ontario is a region where the Liberals hope to gain some seats. But just how much of a battleground is the region setting up to be? Southwestern Ontario has swung towards the Conservatives in dramatic fashion over […]
It’s election year, only 10 per cent of Canadians feel financially secure
By Craig Worden and Andrew Cardozo The election is approaching and all party leaders are talking about the middle class, growing inequality and growing insecurity. This, while one-in-10 (10 per cent) Canadians feels financially secure, a new Pearson Centre-Pollara survey shows less than four-in-10 Canadians (37 per cent) are “getting ahead, with some savings” […]
Byrne, McGrath, Telford three of most powerful women in Canada
When federal votes are counted in 2015, our next prime minister will be a man. But pull back the curtain. For the first time in history, the three major federal campaigns in this country are being run by women and this might be the biggest leap forward in gender politics in recent memory. We have […]
Budget delay buys Conservatives time for messaging but balancing won’t get easier, experts say
The Conservative government is buying itself some time with a delayed budget, hoping for oil prices to rebound as a once highly-anticipated election surplus budget is looking harder and harder to balance, potentially damaging the government’s brand. But there’s no guarantee the outlook will improve in the next few months and the Conservatives could be […]
Three candidates jockeying for Conservative nomination in Ottawa West-Nepean
Three candidates have been feverishly preparing behind the scenes to win the Conservative Party’s nomination in Ottawa West-Nepean, Ont., hoping to hold on to the hotly contested seat in the upcoming election since popular incumbent John Baird is running in another riding. Andy Wang, 27, a staffer in Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre’s (Nepean-Carleton, Ont.) […]
Election 2015 federal campaign to be longest, most expensive: insiders
If Prime Minister Stephen Harper sticks with the fixed election date of Oct. 19, the next election campaign will be the country’s longest and most expensive as the unofficial campaign already underway will go into high gear around June when all parties start to run attack ads and initiate other election activities that will continue […]
