Where MPs crow, and men and women thunder: a postcard from Question Time Down Under
Looking for ways to make Canada’s Question Period more dignified? Don’t look to Australia.
With voting only 12 days away, Ontario Liberal leadership candidates making last-ditch efforts to gain advantage over rivals
If none of the four candidates win on the first ballot, the deal between the Yasir Naqvi and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith campaigns could prove critical in the outcome of the Ontario Liberal leadership race, says Frank Graves, president of Ekos Research.
‘The party wants this riding very badly’: at least 22 candidates consider run for Tory nomination in Liberal-held riding of Pickering-Uxbridge, Ont.
The Greater Toronto Area riding is a target for the Conservatives in the next election, say potential candidates Anthony Yacub and Raveenie Rajasingham.
‘Politicians work in a fishbowl environment:’ MPs should talk about scaling back the role of officers of Parliament, says Savoie
It’s the job of Parliament to hold parliamentarians to account, not officers of Parliament, says Donald Savoie. He also says cabinet minsters should be allowed to hire their own chiefs of staff, social media is destroying the credibility of parliamentary institutions, and politicians need to put a plug in the personal insults. Democracy is at stake.
Prominent politicos eyeing Liberal nomination in coveted safe riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s
As interested parties jostle for position to succeed nine-term Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, Toronto city councillor Josh Matlow says constituents would want to nominate a someone with strong ties to the riding.
Crowded field of candidates expected in House Speaker’s election on Oct. 3
To elect the new House speaker, MPs will vote in person using the ranked ballot system.
New centrist party wants to ‘break a two-party duopoly,’ but that will require ‘exceptional circumstances,’ say observers
‘We’re talking about a centre that is the point of the arrow,’ not ‘taking a sprinkle of Tory policies and a dash of Liberal ones, and mixing them into some sort of bland paste,’ says Dominic Cardy, interim leader of Canadian Future.
Liberals’ tanking poll numbers ‘top of mind’ as Trudeau, Grits head to national caucus retreat
Pollster Greg Lyle says not only are the Liberals on the wrong side of the affordability issue, but he also sees ‘signs of a government that’s not playing its best game’ when it comes to issues management, and that’s a problem.
Happy Conservatives celebrate strong polling numbers, but some warn of ‘peaking too early’ and ‘increased scrutiny’
The federal Conservatives have no concerns about increased scrutiny because of their strong national public opinion polling numbers, says Hamish Marshall.
Conservatives’ polling lead ‘still fundamentally about the Liberals,’ as fatigue sets in with incumbents, say pollsters
A new ad pitch to soften Pierre Poilievre’s image will only work if it’s backed by the Conservative leader’s actions, according to former Liberal strategist Dan Arnold. But Conservatives are still polling about 10 points ahead of the Liberals.
