May 25 2022 — John Ivison — National Post — The voice recorders are turned off in our interview with David Cohen, when a U.S. embassy spokesperson corrects the record: Canada-U.S. trade is $2.6 billion a day, not $26 billion as the new ambassador to Ottawa has mistakenly said.
May 25 2022 — Bryan Passifiume — National Post — With the Ontario election entering the home stretch, indications suggest a tumultuous session as Doug Ford’s PCs prepare for a second majority mandate at Queen’s Park. Wednesday’s latest Postmedia/Leger poll suggests the lead enjoyed by the Tories throughout the campaign remains strong, with 38 per cent of respondents intending to vote PC.
May 22 2022 — Chris Selley — National Post — Candidates for the federal Conservative leadership have until June 3 to sign up new members; at that point, almost three months before the actual election date, the result may be more or less baked in. Pierre Poilievre must hope that’s true — not just because he seems to be the prohibitive favourite, but because his […]
May 20 2022 — National Post — The site is designed to mislead potential Poilievre supporters with promises to donate an unspecified portion of sales to the candidate’s coffers. Attempts to cash in on the Conservative leadership campaign is proving a hard sell for Pierre Poilievre officials, who vow to clamp down on a “misleading” website parading as an official shop selling […]
May 19 2022 — John Ivison — National Post — Former Conservative minister and senior RBC executive Michael Fortier and his family were asleep in their Montreal home at 1:30 a.m. on May 4, when he was woken by a neighbour banging on his drain pipe to warn him that the Jaguar and Land Rover parked in the driveway were on fire.
May 19 2022 — Colby Cosh — National Post — Jason Kenney, who resigned Wednesday night as leader of the Alberta United Conservative Party he helped create, governed Alberta exactly as if someone had handed him a relatively simple playbook at the start of his second political career. “Set aside the culture-war crap if you can help yourself,” it might have read. (And he did!) […]
May 19 2022 — Carson Jerema — National Post — Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party has eaten itself. The dismal 51.4 per cent approval rating that led Premier Jason Kenney to step down Wednesday night is a victory for a long-percolating revolt, one that came mostly from the party’s right wing. But this is no win for conservative politics in Alberta and could signal the […]
May 19 2022 — Don Braid — National Post — There was only one way to upstage the hockey Battle of Alberta. Premier Jason Kenney found it, to his sorrow, by saying he will eventually step off the stage. Despite predictions of a solid victory, only 51.4 per cent of more than 34,000 UCP members who voted in the leadership review said they approved of […]
May 18 2022 — National Post — Liberal MP Sven Spengemann is stepping down from his Toronto-area seat to take a position with the United Nations, marking the first resignation of the new Parliament, which will force a by-election later this year. Spengemann, who represents the riding of Mississauga—Lakeshore in the House of Commons, said Wednesday he will be resigning his seat […]
May 18 2022 — Don Braid — National Post — While Premier Jason Kenney confidently talks about a majority win for his leadership Wednesday, some people in his caucus and government have another subject entirely. They’re speculating about who will be the new premier as early as Thursday, when a full UCP caucus meeting is scheduled at McDougall Centre from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
May 17 2022 — John Ivison — National Post — The only person, it seems, who can stop Doug Ford being re-elected as premier is Doug Ford. If he was going to blow it, the leaders’ debate on Monday evening in Toronto was the time and the place. The PC leader made a big deal of being allowed to bring in his cheat sheet to […]
May 17 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre says he is consulting with legal experts to find a way to “curtail” the federal Emergencies Act to prevent it from being used for “political purposes” like during the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.
May 17 2022 — National Post — With the deadline fast approaching to recruit new party members, Jean Charest’s team tapped into a list of Quebec Liberals to convince them to become federal Conservatives but blamed an ill-advised volunteer when asked about the pitch. The National Post obtained an email sent last week by the Liberal association of Papineau, a provincial electoral […]
May 16 2022 — John Ivison — National Post — Dogs are an occupational hazard for campaigning politicians and the explosion of pandemic pets has made things worse – nearly one million Canadians acquired a hound or kitty during COVID. “Every house has a dog. I’ve never seen so many dogs,” says an exasperated Vic Fedeli, the veteran Progressive Conservative who has been elected three […]
May 14 2022 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Jason Kenney is finished — or not. He’s the only hope the United Conservative Party has at re-election — or their greatest liability. It all depends on who you ask about the former Harper cabinet minister turned Alberta premier.