There are plenty of questions the party will need to address including how he can lead the party from outside Parliament. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is not the prime minister. As of Tuesday morning, he was not even an MP. At the nexus of those two outcomes, which just months ago would have been nearly unthinkable, is a maelstrom of...
The Prime Minister's Office says Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to meet in person in the near future. An account of a phone call between the two leaders, issued today by the PMO, says Trump congratulated Carney on his federal election victory. It adds that the two agreed on the importance of Canada and...
As the federal Conservatives assess a campaign that saw leader Pierre Poilievre lose his Ottawa-area seat of Carleton, they are pointing fingers at the most powerful Tory in Ontario. Let the blame begin. As the federal Conservatives assess a campaign that saw leader Pierre Poilievre lose his Ottawa-area seat of Carleton, they are pointing fingers at the most powerful Tory...
Well, that was a night. Canadians voted, and Mark Carney was the winner, overcoming what at one time was a 25-point Pierre Poilievre lead in the polls. But it was not a majority win, at least not yet. With counts and recounts still to come, the outcome remains a minority Liberal government. Fred DeLorey and Bruce Anderson are here to...
The Conservative Party of Canada made some strides in the latest federal election, but what’s next for Leader Pierre Poilievre, who lost his seat Monday night? A Conservative strategist, who called the election “obviously one for the history books,” says the former MP for the Ottawa riding of Carleton will find his way back into the House of Commons, but...
Canadian voters are deeply divided when assessing the possible outcome of the 2025 federal election, a new Research Co. “Exit Poll” poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample of Canadians who voted in the 2025 federal election, 49% of respondents say they would be “very upset” if the Conservative Party forms the government, while a...
Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,290 respondents in Canada. This report is based on the four waves of tracking ending April 25th, 2025. The margin of error for a random survey of 1,290 Canadians is ±2.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The research was commissioned by the Bloomberg and was conducted by Nanos Research.
Mark Carney didn’t quite get the majority mandate he was looking for and there’s a lot of punditry out there about the problems he and the Liberals will have in managing that. It’s being called an “uncertain mandate,” a “less than strong mandate,” and the outcome has been labelled (on page one of the Star no less) an “uneasy victory.”...
That was the craziest election yet, and it wasn’t even over on Day 1 after the voting. The numbers were still changing Tuesday afternoon.The Liberals picked up a Bloc Quebecois-leaning seat, raising their total to 169, three short of a majority.
Danielle Smith urges Mark Carney to ‘reset the relationship’ between Alberta and Ottawa. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is reacting to the results of the federal election by taking a swipe at the newly elected Liberal government and promising to protect the province against "future hostile acts" from Ottawa. In a statement Tuesday morning, Smith made her first formal comments since...
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is calling for a "partisan truce" with other federal party leaders after Monday's federal election, even as he faces criticism from his party's provincial cousins for putting sovereignty aside. Blanchet told reporters in Montreal that voters want stability in Parliament in order to address the ongoing trade war with the United States. His comments came...
Here is Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s reaction to the federal election boiled down to one ominous sentence: “I will not permit the status quo to continue.”It is a threat disguised as an olive branch.
For the first time in nearly a century, two parties won more than 40 per cent of the vote. Shortly after 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Mark Carney walked onto a stage at the old Ottawa civic centre — the same hockey arena where John Turner was elected Liberal leader in 1984, the last time the Liberals tried to replace a...
Canadians have elected a prime minister who promised to pursue energy corridors across Canada, to slash project approval timelines and boosted an oilsands carbon capture project during the English leaders' debate. But this wasn't the Conservative prime minister that most Albertans were hoping for. They didn't reject the Liberals with the same ferocity and lopsided results they'd delivered to Justin...
After a short yet intense campaign focused on how to strengthen our economy and protect our sovereignty in a more uncertain and threatening continental and global context, Canadians have voted and the results are in. The Liberals have done what many thought impossible barely a few months ago: they won the most seats and found a way to remain in...
All three potential allies of a minority Liberal government lean hard left, crushing the possibility of nation-building projects like pipelines
The dust has settled on a unique federal election, and Canada will have a new government led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, backed by a fresh mandate from the voters. And while the election was rightly dominated by how to deal with threats of U.S. economic aggression, climate and energy issues played an important supporting role in the campaign.
The air was sucked out of the bizarrely freezing-cold Canada Room at the Rogers Convention Centre in downtown Ottawa at 10:07 p.m. local time, when CTV News made its call for a Liberal government. A relatively rowdy crowd near the stage, surrounded by photographers and cameras, had been leading chants of “bring it home!” as positive Conservative results trickled in...
Donald Trump went on social media on Canada’s election day to endorse himself as the best leader for this country.Canadians politely disagreed, handing victory to Mark Carney and the Liberals — a vote for stability amid the chaos Trump keeps wanting to wreak on Canada.
This election produced a startling result. After a decade of failure by a government that historians will likely give low marks to on virtually every relevant measure, the electorate decided it deserved a fourth term. There were two main reasons, both dubious: first, its terminally unpopular leader and prime minister was replaced by a charisma-free technocrat, who promised to somehow...
The Conservatives have every right to be angry, and every reason to demand that something substantive finally be done to prevent foreign election interference. In the early hours of yesterday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump decided to blow off some steam via his Truth Social account, with Canada’s election as the target. He wrote: “Good luck to the Great people...
The Liberals will be disappointed that they fell short of a majority. But everything is relative. Three months ago, they were nearly dead.
Only a party that's the default choice of the electorate could trail by 26 points in January and go on to win an election in April. Like it or not, by winning a fourth-straight election following a disastrous and scandal-plagued 10 years in office, the Liberal party has proven, once again, that it is indeed Canada’s “natural governing party.”
I was in Montreal the night Quebec voted “No” in the 1995 referendum. For many who voted “Yes,” it was heartbreak soaked in tears — but ultimately, it was resignation with echoes of René Lévesque’s words in 1980: “until the next time.” The images and the words spoken that night were displays of sadness, not rage. Except for then-Premier Jacques...
Without pretending any of us can predict the exact outcome of elections before they actually occur, if the polls and pundits prove right, the most likely scenario we will wake up to on Tuesday is a Liberal majority government. Larger trends from nation-wide and regional polling indicate this will occur due to the collapse of NDP and Bloc Quebecois support...
With a brand new leader at the Liberal Party helm and with the distinct chance of new leadership in all the main federal parties, the old order of national politics could change faster than Newfoundland and Labrador weather.
All in all, both Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre promise fiscal restraint, but they have very expensive priorities and are planning to run deficits. Time will tell whether how much of a 'change' the next prime minister is from the last one.
Whoever wins the federal election on Monday, their task — beyond resetting the relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, navigating Canada out of an impending economic crisis, addressing affordability and safety concerns — must be to reach out to those Canadians who did not vote for them. Although the main party leaders portray themselves as figures who can heal a...
'It would be an extremely rash politician who links events in Vancouver to federal government policy'
Pierre Poilievre goes out of his way to be seen as a firebrand. It’s a look he’s been working on for years. He loved ginning up partisan supporters by saying he would fire the Governor of the Bank of Canada and replace him with someone “who would reinstate our low inflation mandate”. That was in May of 2022. Inflation peaked...
When President John F. Kennedy asked Congress to fund the establishment of a dedicated foreign development agency in 1961, he did so by letting them know that the world was watching. “The eyes of other industrialized nations, awaiting our leadership for a stronger united effort,” Kennedy said. “The eyes of our adversaries, awaiting the weakening of our resolve in this...
This is the election campaign that wasn’t. Everyone knew what this thing was going to be; it had been building forever. It was going to be a reckoning on 10 years of Liberal government, a volcanic vent for the public’s exhausted fury with the party and Justin Trudeau, who, to some, had become a walking expletive. We were going to...
Every successful campaign starts with a clear sense of purpose. Too often, when people hear “message,” they think it means a slogan or a handful of talking points. But a campaign message is far more than a tagline—it’s the central argument, the foundational story a party is telling voters about why it deserves their trust and their vote. It’s the...
Jagmeet Singh, in a tough election fight, is opening up about another tense period in his life as New Democratic Party leader — the winter of 2023-24, when real and credible death threats put him and his family under heavy RCMP protection for weeks on end.
A number of political pundits across the nation claim that the decisive issue in the 2025 federal election — the “ballot-box question” upon which the outcome of the election will be decided — is which party and leader will most effectively stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration on matters of trade and security. Other pundits suggest...
Conservative leader goes down to defeat in his Ottawa-area riding and fails to unseat Liberals nationwide. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered mixed results for his party in Monday's election — boosting the Tory vote-share to a generational high with breakthroughs among new voting blocs, while at the same time failing to unseat Mark Carney and the Liberals from government and...
Conservative leader projected to lose his longtime Ottawa riding. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his longtime rural Ottawa seat to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.Poilievre had won the area seven times in a row going back to his first win in 2004.Fanjoy lives in the village of Manotick, where he built a carbon-neutral house.
Bruce Fanjoy’s election party ended at 2 a.m. when supporters were kicked out of the Manotick Legion. The real party presumably started sometime after 4 a.m. local time, location unknown, when his victory over Pierre Poilievre was declared. Article content It’s a stunning upset for the first-time Liberal candidate who won the Carleton riding over current Conservative Party leader and...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants to focus on unity the day after the federal election, refusing to shoot back at comments from a Conservative MP calling the premier a "problem" and an opportunist. Jamil Jivani, who won Bowmanville-Oshawa North, said in an interview with CBC on election night that Ford inserted himself in the federal campaign and Conservatives...
The U.S. president has remarked on the staggering turnaround he provoked. Donald Trump is fully aware he provoked a political earthquake in Canada — just ask him. On the day of Canada's election, the U.S. president was quoted in an interview voicing detailed knowledge of the historic plot-twist he triggered. "You know, until I came along, remember that the Conservative...
Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to unite the country and govern for all after Canadians handed the Liberals a fourth consecutive mandate in Monday's federal election. "Who is ready," he shouted to cheers and applause and people chanting his name in a crowded hockey arena in Ottawa in the wee hours of the morning. "Who is ready? Who is ready...
OTTAWA -- The shape of the next Liberal government is becoming clearer as ballot counting continues after a historic election day in Canada.
As the Liberal Party appears poised to form a minority government following Monday's election, economists say the focus now shifts toward Prime Minister Mark Carney's spending promises amid the trade war with the United States. The Liberals were leading or elected in 168 seats when the counting was paused early Tuesday morning, four short of a majority. U.S. President Donald...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has congratulated Prime Minister Mark Carney after the Liberal Party's federal election win and said he looked forward to working with him in a statement on Tuesday. "Ontario stands ready to work with the federal government to unleash our economy by cutting red tape so we can make Canada's economy more competitive, resilient and self-reliant, capable...
Elections Canada says it has decided to pause counting of special ballots until later Tuesday morning.A handful of ridings remain too close to call and the move means Canadians won't know until later in the day whether Mark Carney's Liberals have won a minority or majority mandate.
After coming out victorious in a tight election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney is vowing to unite a divided country in the face of ongoing tensions with the United States.In a speech delivered to supporters early Tuesday morning, Carney promised to lead a government that represents all Canadians and said the country works when Canadians work together.
After a challenging election campaign that saw New Democrats sidelined, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has failed to secure his re-election, and announced he will step down once an interim leader is appointed. “Choosing to commit your life to politics obviously comes with some sacrifice, but we choose this life because of the chance to change the country you love for...
Elections Canada confirmed that voters trying to access its website might face technical difficulties.“As a result, some of our online services and tools are currently unavailable. We are aware of the issue and are working hard to fix it,” the organization wrote on its website following hours of disruption.
President Trump is expected to soften the impact of his automotive tariffs, preventing duties on foreign-made cars from stacking on top of other tariffs he has imposed and easing some levies on foreign parts used to manufacture cars in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.
Canada is holding its most consequential election Monday. Here’s how the country’s most successful Conservative right now thinks it will go. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is a canny politician, a throwback to a more ideologically flexible but no-bullshit archetype common in 20th-century, big-city American politics. Ford’s shrewdest play may have been his most recent, when he called for a snap...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told the U.S. president to butt out of the federal election after Donald Trump appeared to suggest Canadians vote for him when they go to the polls on Monday. "President Trump, stay out of our election. The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box," Poilievre posted on social...
In August 2019, a prominent official delivered an unusual argument to a room of global central bankers gathered in Wyoming: the U.S. dollar should be knocked off its perch atop the global financial system. “In the longer term, we need to change the game,” this man said at the Federal Reserve’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, in a lodge overlooking...
Nobody even thinks about booing when Miss Rodeo Taber, Shaylynn Amen, rides out on horseback, holding the Stars and Stripes aloft as she gallops around the arena while Bill Lawson sings the American anthem, a capella, in a gravelly but tuneful cowboy baritone. This is not a hockey game in eastern Canada, where the Star-Spangled Banner has regularly been booed...
As Monday’s federal election approaches, Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn’s campaign is bringing long-simmering tensions to the surface in the North Island-Powell River riding. A little more than one voter in 10 is Indigenous on the sparsely populated northern tip of Vancouver Island, and recent weeks have brought a sense of unease as Gunn’s past comments have come under intense scrutiny...
President Donald Trump weighed in on Canada's election today, repeating his claim that Canada should become a U.S. state.Trump's tariffs and repeated threats of annexation have become a central issue ahead of today's vote.The president posted on social media that Canada could become a 51st state without "an artificially drawn line from many years ago."
U.S. President Donald Trump will seek even more restrictions on Canada’s ability to sign trade agreements with China when Washington and Ottawa start renegotiations on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, an international trade expert predicts. David Collins, who specializes in international trade and investment law at City St. George’s, University of London, says he expects the United States will seek to...
Justin Trudeau held the spotlight in Canada for almost a decade, then he pretty much just disappeared.That the former prime minister was nowhere to be found during the campaign leading to Election Day was a quiet relief to Liberal Party candidates on the trail.
At the outset of this campaign, I said the election was about a number of things: tariffs and trade and Trump and threats. But at its heart, it was about the economy. Whoever wins this thing will have an incredibly difficult task ahead. Whichever party forms government will have to take immediate steps to grow the economy. I wrote a...
If you want to have a sense of the federal parties' campaign strategies, it helps to follow the leader. An individual announcement in one riding might not indicate much, but taking a wider view reveals patterns in a party's plan of attack. CBC News analyzed the whereabouts of the main party leaders and every event they held over the course...
Voters are heading to the polls in Quebec, where the Liberals are trying to gain enough seats to clinch a majority government and the Bloc Québécois is hoping an eleventh-hour bump in support will be enough to claim the balance of power. The campaign in Quebec has been a tough slog for Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet, who has watched his...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has dismissed many of former President Joe Biden's nominees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.
WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said U.S. President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Tuesday to provide some relief to an automotive industry besieged by multiple tariffs.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sharply criticized fellow Democrats on Sunday for not doing enough to oppose President Donald Trump, drawing a clear divide between himself and other high-profile Democrats seen as future presidential contenders.
"60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley paid tribute Sunday to Bill Owens, the show's executive producer who resigned last week, saying on the air that "none of us is happy" about the extra supervision that corporate leaders are imposing.
Royalty, presidents, prime ministers and a legion of faithful are paying their last respects to Pope Francis at a funeral mass in St. Peter's Square in Rome to honour his sometimes turbulent papacy. Applause rang out as the pontiff's simple wooden coffin, inlaid with a large cross, was brought out of St. Peter's Basilica and into the sun-filled square by...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Elon Musk has been called a Moonshot Master, the Edison of Our Age and the Architect of the Future, but he's got a big problem at his car company and it's not clear he can fix it: damage to its brand.
Pope Francis, whose nearly 12-year papacy ushered in a more open, welcoming Catholic Church that prioritized empathy for the poor and disenfranchised — including Indigenous victims of Canada's church-run residential schools — has died at 88, the Vatican said in a video statement Monday. "Dear brothers and sisters, it is with profound sadness I must announce the death of our...
Meta Platforms Inc. faces a historic antitrust trial beginning Monday that could force the tech giant to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, startups it bought more than a decade ago that have since grown into social media powerhouses.
China announced Friday that it will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84 per cent to 125 per cent -- the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies that has rattled markets and raised fears of a global slowdown. While U.S. President Donald Trump paused import taxes this week for other countries, he raised...
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is an increasingly disruptive global power and a growing challenge to Canada. One substantial risk is that the PRC intends to annex Taiwan, which it has never controlled, and it does not rule out the option of military force. China’s increasing rate of military exercises around Taiwan indicate that it is preparing for aggression...
Trump’s chaotic global tariff war, which has upended the international order, shows no sign of letting up. Presidents of the U.S. have long used trade as an instrument of power to assert economic and military dominance over the global economy. Trump however, does so against Canada and other allies—a vision driven by his pathological narcissistic view of the world, unrestrained...
Every assumption we’ve made about Canada’s place in the world over the past 80 years is open to question. We can no longer rely on others to safeguard our prosperity and security. It is up to us — guided by our interests, values, and a renewed sense of identity and common purpose.In this context, whoever forms the Cana
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Some dismissed it as the “erectile dysfunction” ad. Others laughed it off as a desperate Hail Mary to salvage a faltering campaign in Southern Ontario—specifically in the all-important 905 region.Well, they can stop laughing.Call it the blue belt now. The Conservatives not only held their ground in the 905—they flipped several Liberal ridings.
The world is chaotic. Sovereignty, diplomacy, trade, free speech, science are all under assault. Daily life seems suddenly dangerous. Even the weather report is scary. “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” as William Butler Yeats put it in The Second Coming (1919). We’ve entered an era of might makes right. Familiar rules are changing. Among the changes is the...
This will be a very short post on the access-to-information election promises of the five main political parties. That’s because there’s nothing to write about.With the release of the last platform today (Conservative), no party is committing to reforming the dysfunctional Access to Information Act, other than reciting cheap bromides. Some aren’t even offering bromides.
Our friend Garry Keller is coming home, after winning 1,259 votes less than the Liberal in Nipissing — Timiskaming. This Panel goes out to everyone who ran for office in Monday’s federal general election. It takes guts.
On Monday April 28, Canadians voted in another Liberal government.They are heading to the House of Commons with what appeared to be a minority government.The Conservatives gained seats and will form the Official Opposition; however, leader Pierre Poilievre’s seat remained undecided early Tuesday morning.
A whirlwind election campaign has ended with Mark Carney leading the Liberal Party to victory, coming back from disastrous polling numbers just months ago. The NDP has been decimated, with leader Jagmeet Singh stepping down. Yet, despite losing, Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party still earned the support of a large percentage of the population, leaving the Liberals with the prospect of...
David Herle, Scott Reid, Jordan Leichnitz, and Kory Teneycke provide insights on the latest in Canadian politics.
