Oct 14 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — Conservatives from across the Prairies are working to try to unseat longtime Liberal MP Ralph Goodale in Regina-Wascana, Sask., where a local columnist says anger towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the carbon tax has reached a boiling point. “It’s a pretty hostile campaign,” said Murray Mandryk, a columnist for The Regina Leader Post who […]
Oct 7 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — Conservative deputy leader Lisa Raitt says she won’t invite Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to visit her riding, and won’t be touring other districts, as she tries to fight off a star Liberal candidate in Milton and win re-election. Ms. Raitt, 51, who was first elected in 2008 and won the last election with 45.4 per […]
Sep 30 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has her sights set on the NDP’s two ridings in downtown Hamilton, and two Conservative front-benchers have already visited the city to help launch Tory campaigns in Hamilton Mountain and Hamilton Centre. While the party leaders have criss-crossed the country on national tours, including stops in Hamilton, some other well-known MPs […]
Sep 23 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi is in the fight of his political life, but says his reputation in Edmonton Mill Woods gives him an edge in the campaign to keep his seat in a province where his Liberal Party is widely unpopular. The recently-surfaced photos of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) wearing brownface “certainly […]
Sep 19 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — The federal Liberals are planning to press the provinces and territories to help them make good on their election promise to slash daycare fees and create 250,000 new spaces. The Liberals promised last week to create 250,000 new before- and after-school daycare spaces for school-aged children if they are returned to power. They also promised […]
Sep 16 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — A shift towards even more digital advertising is the most likely change to the way the parties will spend their money during this fall’s election campaign, say veterans of previous campaigns with the Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP. “I suspect digital is going to become more and more the battleground. That’s where more campaigns should be […]
Aug 13 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — Nearly two-thirds of Canadians said they had seen a political advertisement in the past month, suggests a new poll by Forum Research, but eight in 10 of them say the ads had little or no impact on their opinions. The poll by Forum Research used an interactive-voice response system to survey 1,733 Canadians across the […]
Aug 12 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is making good on his promise to campaign against the federal Liberals as the election approaches, and political observers say he could help the federal Conservatives to win seats in B.C., but could also hurt them in Quebec if he isn’t careful. Mr. Kenney led his United Conservative Party to a […]
Aug 5 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — After four years in power, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is getting mixed reviews at the doors in some Liberal ridings, and some Liberal MPs say their own personal popularity—instead of the popularity of their leader—will be more important for them in this campaign than the last. “You always run on three things: your personal reputation, […]
Jul 29 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — The Senate ethics officer’s investigation into the conduct of former Senator Don Meredith was delayed for reasons beyond his control, including due to other Senators who didn’t respond to his requests for information, says a new report from the Senate Ethics Committee. “The SEO was delayed in part by the lack of prompt responses to […]
Jul 29 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — The outcome of the fall election could spur big changes to the Red Chamber, Senators say, with talk that floor-crossing, forming new groups, and battles over who would form the opposition—or whether there will even be one—could all be in play. The Liberals and Conservatives are running neck-and-neck in public opinion polls, leaving a realistic […]
Jul 22 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — The NDP says it has temporarily stopped running political ads on Facebook and elsewhere fewer than 100 days before the federal election, leading one conservative-tied digital strategist to suggest the party is in deep trouble, and a former NDP national director to predict the party is saving its ammunition for closer to the election.
Jul 15 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — The Liberal Party has gained an advantage of seven percentage points over the federal Conservatives in the province of Ontario, according to a recent online poll by Campaign Research, reversing the lead the official opposition had in the province from last month, and helping the Grits to take their first lead over the Tories nationwide—by […]
Jul 1 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — MPs are once again calling for changes to the Standing Orders that govern business in the House, warning that all-night Commons voting puts a serious strain on their health, and the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader says it could kill an MP one day. ”We will have literally hundreds of votes. I think […]
Jun 26 2019 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — Four years of lawmaking has left the Liberal government with a lengthy list of accomplishments and black marks, but only a few legal changes made or abandoned by the Trudeau government will likely play a significant role at the ballot box this October, say political observers. “There’s an old saying in politics: ‘Friends come and […]