For the first time in the party’s history, a Conservative member has initiated a petition to call a referendum on the party leader. But, the Conservative Party’s president has questioned the online petition’s validity.

Within the coming weeks, there will be dozens of new MPs who arrive in Ottawa without a clear understanding of what an MP does.

Advance voting jumped as much as 19.5 per cent this election, and use of special ballots, the majority of which are filled out ahead of election day, increased by roughly 59.4 per cent.

A number of dynamics are likely to play out that could see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau take a bow before we are back at the polls again, and sailing will not be smooth for Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole.

Along with his time as House leader, the Liberal MP-elect served under the Wynne government as Ontario’s attorney general, minister of community safety and correctional services, and as labour minister.

'These are big shoes,' Yasir Naqvi said of previous MPs who represented Ottawa Centre, Ont.

Justin Trudeau took the country to the polls but never offered a satisfactory reason for calling an election in the midst of the pandemic, says pollster Frank Graves.

By furiously attacking Rebel News in the way he did, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unwittingly did a big favour for his nemesis.

Promises are one thing, but successful implementation with promised results are quite another. High expectations without the capacity to deliver is the big risk.

Three arguments typically made against withdrawing military forces can be easily picked apart.

Every single MP, come Sept. 21, should be scheduling in their first trip to the nearest residential school search for unmarked graves, and every single MP should be in an Indigenous community on Sept. 30.

Justin Trudeau's Liberal government did an admirable job of handling the pandemic, and accomplished far more than its opponents give it credit for. It's not clear whether that will matter on election day.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has spent 19 days in Ontario, compared to 17 days for Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole and 20 days for NDP Leader Jagmeet SIngh.

All signs are pointing to a Liberal government, with the only question being whether it will be minority or majority.

Let’s hope voters shelve their anger and zealousness and lend some clear direction for the next government as it tries to define Canada for the post-pandemic future.

An upstart Conservative party leader putting on a friendly, faux-progressive face. He’s looking to take power, a struggling centre-left governing party stares down the barrel of a global crisis.

Concern is skin deep: all the parties' climate platform policies are grossly insufficient, the climate villains are still in firm control, and any informed outsider would see a nation in deep climate denial.

If O’Toole does win on Sept. 20, he will wake up with a mounting pile of IOUs to people like François Legault, who will be telling him to ‘pay up.’

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole has tried to recruit support from the centre, but it may have left the party vulnerable to a challenge on its right flank.

The Liberals have a conflicting track record, the Conservatives are sticking mostly to their older base, and the Greens are failing to capitalize on their opportunities, say experts and candidates.

Despite the Liberals' clear self-interested manoeuvre in calling the election, the Conservatives and the NDP haven’t right now got enough Canadians either excited about or comfortable with change.

The anxiety of the pandemic, increased time spent online, and a former American president that platformed hate are all ingredients to a cauldron of white supremacy that’s about to boil over.

Experts say that left-leaning parties seem to have a foothold in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, but Yukon could be anyone’s game.

Former NDP staffer Cameron Holmstrom says some ministers have found themselves in unexpected re-election fights.