Oct 15 2019 — Globe and Mail — The Manning Centre put out a fundraising call for election advertising and then passed that money along to a series of third-party political groups that have been running attack ads against the federal Liberals, the organization said. But the source of the Manning Centre’s donations to those groups, worth more than $300,000, will remain hidden […]
Oct 15 2019 — John Milloy — Globe and Mail — After a divisive brawl of a campaign, Canada may be looking at a minority government come Oct. 21. This might be seen as a good thing. There is a belief that minority governments force politicians to work together, put aside partisan differences and co-operate for the greater good of the nation – allowing the best […]
Oct 14 2019 — Nathan VanderKlippe — Globe and Mail — China’s foreign ministry issued an angry response on Monday to a Taiwan visit by former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, with Beijing saying it has made its displeasure known to Ottawa. Mr. Harper became the first former Canadian prime minister to set foot in Taipei last week when he spoke at a conference organized by […]
Oct 14 2019 — Michael Coren — Globe and Mail — Canadian politics differs from the U.S. variety on numerous levels. And one of the most obvious is the importance of the Christian vote. It matters deeply there: A quarter of voters in the past four national elections have been white evangelicals, and 81 per cent of them voted for Donald Trump. In other words, without […]
Oct 13 2019 — Globe and Mail — The signs on the edge of Medicine Hat welcome visitors to “The Gas City,” a reference to the natural gas that has built and sustained this southeastern Alberta community for more than 100 years. There are thousands of city-owned natural gas wells popping up out of the ground in local parks, boulevards and farmers’ fields […]
Oct 12 2019 — Chris Hannay — Globe and Mail — The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. says it will remove two political journalists, including The National co-host Rosemary Barton, as applicants in a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed against the Conservative Party of Canada. The CBC filed a legal application at the Federal Court on Thursday alleging that the Conservative Party and executive director Dustin Van Vugt had violated […]
Oct 12 2019 — Globe and Mail — The federal Conservative Party has been running Facebook ads on its Chinese-language page falsely accusing the Liberal Party of planning to legalize hard drugs, rhetoric the Conservatives have pushed aggressively in Chinese but have made little reference to in English. The page has run a total of six ads, according to Facebook’s advertising transparency library. […]
Oct 12 2019 — Les Perreaux — Globe and Mail — Ruth Ellen Brosseau is chatting with her people at the Festival de la galette de sarrasin on a pleasant fall afternoon when a middle-aged man with a broad smile bounds down a front stoop to shake her hand and pose for a picture. This is no ordinary front stoop along Louiseville’s buckwheat festival strip, and […]
Oct 11 2019 — Globe and Mail — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and two political reporters, including Ottawa-based anchor Rosemary Barton, are taking the Conservative Party of Canada to court over the use of television excerpts in partisan advertising. The application in the Federal Court of Canada, which was filed on Thursday, said the contentious material was used in a Conservative ad that […]
Oct 11 2019 — Globe and Mail — Andrew Scheer revealed a Conservative government would cut $18-billion in infrastructure spending over five years, a surprise announcement that came a day after the Conservative Leader said he had already outlined all of his planned spending cuts. The party says the change is triggered by a plan to take the existing 12-year allocation for infrastructure […]
Oct 11 2019 — Globe and Mail — Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer used the last debate of the campaign to urge Quebeckers to vote for a party that has a shot at forming the next government instead of allowing the Bloc Québécois to return as a political force on the federal stage. The French-language debate was less chaotic than Monday’s English-language debate, […]
Oct 11 2019 — Marieke Walsh — Globe and Mail — Andrew Scheer maintained Thursday the Conservative Party is united behind his leadership after Tories started publicly speculating about who might succeed him. “What I know is that our entire team is excited for the election on Oct. 21,” Mr. Scheer told reporters late Thursday evening. He stressed that Conservatives plan to win the next election […]
Oct 10 2019 — Globe and Mail — Months before police escorted the two top officers of the B.C. Legislature away from the precinct, the Speaker of the House offered Premier John Horgan details of alleged wrongdoing. He declined to be briefed, leaving the file in the hands of his chief of staff with instructions to keep him out of it. The senior […]
Oct 10 2019 — Globe and Mail — Supporters of former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay are laying the groundwork for a possible leadership bid in the event party leader Andrew Scheer is unable to defeat the Liberals in the Oct. 21 general election.Veteran Conservative Party insider John Capobianco, a senior vice-president at the public relations and marketing agency FleishmanHillard Inc., confirmed to […]
Oct 9 2019 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says that Elections Canada issued a ruling in support of the party’s advertising practices, but the elections watchdog is contradicting that claim.The agency said it simply provided guidance to the Conservatives in an e-mail this week, including a suggestion that the party should consider how the public might perceive its advertising […]