High-profile Conservatives consider run in Nepean, but Harder accuses Poilievre of meddling
With John Baird’s stunning exit from politics earlier this month, a number of high-profile Conservatives are considering running for the party’s nomination, but some are complaining publicly that the new federal regional minister responsible for Ottawa, Pierre Poilievre, is discouraging them because he has a preferred candidate. Mr. Baird, who was the minister of Foreign […]
Adams attends first Liberal caucus meeting, colleagues put on brave face among signs of discontent
PARLIAMENT HILL—Liberal MPs put up an enthusiastic front Wednesday to welcome longtime former Conservative Eve Adams to the party’s fold amid signs of discontent with party leader Justin Trudeau’s unilateral decision to bring her into the caucus following her failed attempts to get an election nomination with the Conservative Party. Though Ms. Adams (Mississauga-Brampton South, […]
NDP best hope to get country back from grim reaper
POWELL RIVER, B.C.—Anyone who really wants to get the country back from the grim reaper now in charge of Canada would look to the NDP as their best hope. Anyone who knows this nation’s political history is aware the NDP is the only party that is not completely in the pocket of big business and […]
Trudeau’s chief of staff held teleconference with Liberal MPs 15 minutes before Adams’ floor-crossing news conference Monday
PARLIAMENT HILL—Liberal MPs learned only 15 minutes prior to party leader Justin Trudeau’s Ottawa news conference Monday that he was set to announce former Conservative MP Eve Adams was joining his caucus and would seek nomination as a Liberal candidate for the 2015 election, The Hill Times has learned. Mr. Trudeau’s chief of staff, Cyrus […]
Adams exploring Eglinton-Lawrence, Finance Minister Oliver’s riding
PARLIAMENT HILL—All but three of the 14 federal ridings in the west Toronto region where former Conservative MP Eve Adams was expected to run as a newly-minted Liberal have already nominated their candidates for the 2015 election. And the leading contender for nomination in one of the three ridings still to elect a candidate—essentially […]
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 […]
