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 […]
Uppal’s chief of staff running for Conservative nomination in Kanata-Carleton
A senior Cabinet ministerial staffer, who ran unsuccessfully in the last federal election in a Manitoba riding, is now seeking her party’s nomination in the newly-rejigged riding of Kanata-Carleton where incumbent Conservative MP Gordon O’Connor is not running again. Ann Matejicka, chief of staff to Multiculturalism Minister Tim Uppal (Edmonton-Sherwood Park, Alta.), is running for the […]
Increase in civic participation won’t necessarily mean higher youth voting in 2015
A new survey shows an uptick in civic participation, especially among young people in Canada, but not everyone thinks that means millennials are ready to engage in formal politics and become a factor in the 2015 federal election. The Environics Institute and the Institute on Governance conducted the Canadian portion of the 2014 AmericasBarometer, which surveys […]
Too soon to judge how ‘stunning’ NDP MP Thibeault defection to provincial Liberals will play out
People in Sudbury are “surprised and angry” with former NDP MP Glenn Thibeault who resigned his seat and defected to the Ontario Liberals but it’s still too early to determine how this move will play out in the provincial byelection expected to be called in January and on NDP Leader Tom Mulcair’s leadership, say academics and pundits. […]
Federal Election 2015: Nominated Candidates So Far
Conservative Party Candidates Alberta Blake Richards Banff-Airdrie Kevin Sorenson Battle River-Crowfoot Joan Crockatt Calgary Centre Deepak Obhrai Calgary Forest Lawn Jason Kenney Calgary Midnapore Michelle Rempel Calgary Nose Hill Ron Liepert Calgary Signal Hill Ziad Aboultaif Edmonton Manning Tim Uppal Edmonton Mill Woods Len Thom Edmonton Strathcona Mike Lake Edmonton-Wetaskiwin John Barlow Foothills David Yurdiga […]
All-Party Women’s Caucus tells Speaker Scheer they’re ‘happy to help’ inform on Hill sexual harassment policies
A handful of MPs on the All-Party Women’s Caucus met with House Speaker Andrew Scheer Monday morning to discuss how they can help to establish a harassment policy as both the Commons Board of Internal Economy and a Subcommittee of Procedure and House Affairs begin work on the explosive issue. “We are interested in making […]
