“The Trumpy hectoring of people, the slogans, the big rallies — like it all just seems like so Trump. And people are not loving Trump right now in Canada,” said Kory Teneycke, a key figure in conservative Canadian politics who directs campaigns. “(Poilievre’s) style and his approach to politics certainly channel a lot of Trump. It’s like a cheap karaoke...
The race to form Canada’s next government is now tighter than ever as the federal election campaign enters its final week, a new poll suggests. The latest Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found the Liberals are still in the lead, but are now just three points ahead of the Conservatives, who continue to gain momentum in the home...
The campaign team for local Conservative candidate Larry Brock is apologizing for a recent post on social media.
As the election campaign enters its final stretch and advance voting begins, some Conservatives are voicing concerns that the party’s messaging of focusing heavily on the cost of living and not enough on the pressing American trade war reflects a troubling disconnect. They warn that this misalignment is putting the party at risk in key strongholds, and opening the door...
There were multiple complaints the worker was trying to sway voters in the Toronto-area riding of King—Vaughan to cast a ballot for the Conservative candidate, the Star has learned. An Elections Canada poll worker has been reassigned after multiple complaints she was trying to influence voters in the Toronto-area riding of King—Vaughan to cast a ballot for the Conservative candidate...
New Ipsos polling for Global News following the televised leaders’ debates shows the Conservatives (38%, +2) continuing to close the gap with the Liberals (41%, -1) who are clutching to a three-point lead, nationally. The NDP has 12% (+1) of the vote among decided voters, while the Bloc is at 5% nationally, or 25% within Quebec. Canadians say they prefer...
One-third of Canadians (33%) watched the Federal Leaders’ debates conducted on April 16th and 17th , and 28% report reading or listening to subsequent news or analysis. Among those who watched and/or heard analysis, Canadians believe Mark Carney very narrowly outperformed Pierre Poilievre in the English language debate, with 33% favouring Carney and 30% supporting Poilievre. Jagmeet Singh garnered 3%...
As the election campaign enters its final week, Canadians predominantly view Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre as the leading candidates for Prime Minister. Carney consistently outpaces Poilievre across crucial areas, such as managing tough economic times (+15 points vs Poilievre), having the right temperament and maturity for leadership (+14 points), representing Canada on the world stage (+13 points), and standing...
83% of our watchers expect a Liberal victory, compared to 86% last week. 44% expect a Liberal majority, the highest number we’ve seen to date.
Most think the debates did not affect Liberal support. A decent sized minority (44%) think Poilievre may have gained votes.
The campaign team for local Conservative candidate Larry Brock is apologizing for a recent post on social media.
The race to form Canada’s next government is now tighter than ever as the federal election campaign enters its final week, a new poll suggests. The latest Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found the Liberals are still in the lead, but are now just three points ahead of the Conservatives, who continue to gain momentum in the home...
Liberal Leader Mark Carney has pledged to cut Confederation Bridge tolls by more than half and reduce the cost of Northumberland Ferries fares by at least 50 per cent.Carney made the announcement during a campaign stop Monday in Charlottetown, speaking at a news conference at the University of Prince Edward Island's medical school.
“The Trumpy hectoring of people, the slogans, the big rallies — like it all just seems like so Trump. And people are not loving Trump right now in Canada,” said Kory Teneycke, a key figure in conservative Canadian politics who directs campaigns. “(Poilievre’s) style and his approach to politics certainly channel a lot of Trump. It’s like a cheap karaoke...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has thrown his weight behind withholding federal funding from Canadian universities who don’t do enough to fight antisemitism. Speaking in French at a news conference in British Columbia on Sunday, Poilievre said public funds should not be used to support hate.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Monday his party will release its costed platform on Tuesday, giving voters a sense of what a government led by him would do and where it would cut to pay for it all. The platform release comes the day after advance polls close and less than a week before election day. Poilievre is the last...
Back in mid-February, more than a month before the federal election was called and just as Mark Carney was beginning to close the longstanding polling gap between Liberals and Conservatives, I filed a column on how elections are defined by two things: are context and contrast. It’s a theme worth revisiting one week from Election Day. In the case of...
Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy is running against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre who has a national profile as both party leader and a potential prime minister. Fanjoy’s answer has been old-fashioned hard work, based on the notion that all politics is local.
Switch voters will likely find the prospect of adding a quarter-trillion dollars to the national debt a haunting prospect
Over the years, as an immigration lawyer I’ve had the privilege of representing countless newcomers to Canada — refugee claimants, permanent residents and future citizens. And if there’s one thing these clients share, it’s a deep commitment to following the law.
Many experts have voiced that this election is one of the most important for this country, and it’s hard to disagree. Canadians seem to be more involved this election, if everyday chitchat is a measure of their involvement. As a quick recap: United States President Donald Trump is threatening funding to American universities to force them to stop being so...
In 2015, as a Liberal wave swept Justin Trudeau to a majority government, the Conservative candidate in the riding of Carleton barely managed to avoid being swamped on election day. That candidate, Pierre Poilievre, won by just 705 votes over his Liberal rival whose support, like many Liberals across the country, was surging in the final week. The totals in...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced today that his new Conservative Government will build 2.3 million homes over the next five years. And unlike Mark Carney, who followed the old Trudeau playbook and just plucked a number out of thin air, Poilievre has an actual plan to get it done. Poilievre’s plan will get gatekeepers out of the way to speed...
This election comes at a time of crisis. President Trump is trying to fundamentally reshape the international trading system and, in the process, he’s rupturing the global economy. With Canada, he has been even more direct and aggressive: he is trying to break us so America can own us. Unlike the Conservatives who will slash public services, a Mark Carney...
This election comes at a time of crisis, as President Trump threatens Canadian jobs, businesses, and our way of life. In the face of these threats, Mark Carney has a plan to build a stronger economy and a Canada you can afford. In Atlantic Canada, the Confederation Bridge and ferries are critical to connecting residents and businesses. To make these...
In the first federal budget after the election, Jagmeet Singh says the NDP will move fast to bring down grocery bills—starting with price caps on essentials and tough rules to stop CEOs from jacking up prices just because products are made in Canada.
Today, Jagmeet Singh unveiled the NDP’s costed campaign commitments—laying out a plan to stand up to protect working and middle-class Canadians from the effects of Trump’s trade war, fight corporate greed, and protect what makes Canada, Canada. The NDP plan, Made for People. Built for Canada, takes on the big challenges—from climate and reconciliation to defending democracy. But Singh made...
This election comes at a time of crisis. President Trump is disrupting global markets and fundamentally reshaping the international trading system. With Canada, he has been even more direct and aggressive: he wants to break us so America can own us. Mark Carney won’t let that happen. He has a plan that will fight, protect, and build in the face...
Back in mid-February, more than a month before the federal election was called and just as Mark Carney was beginning to close the longstanding polling gap between Liberals and Conservatives, I filed a column on how elections are defined by two things: are context and contrast. It’s a theme worth revisiting one week from Election Day. In the case of...
Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy is running against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre who has a national profile as both party leader and a potential prime minister. Fanjoy’s answer has been old-fashioned hard work, based on the notion that all politics is local.
Switch voters will likely find the prospect of adding a quarter-trillion dollars to the national debt a haunting prospect
Over the years, as an immigration lawyer I’ve had the privilege of representing countless newcomers to Canada — refugee claimants, permanent residents and future citizens. And if there’s one thing these clients share, it’s a deep commitment to following the law.
Many experts have voiced that this election is one of the most important for this country, and it’s hard to disagree. Canadians seem to be more involved this election, if everyday chitchat is a measure of their involvement. As a quick recap: United States President Donald Trump is threatening funding to American universities to force them to stop being so...
What a difference a few years and the election of Donald Trump makes. It seems like only yesterday that loud voices were calling for the cancellation of Canada Day due to our country’s shameful past. Fast forward to today and it seems that everyone is trying to outdo themselves in the patriotism department: buying Canadian; flying the flag; and chastising...
With just one week to go, the 2025 federal election has become something no one fully expected even a few months ago: a referendum on how much risk Canadians are willing to take in a world turned upside down.
It’s the morning after election night and it is the tale of two profoundly different worlds.For one, no day more glorious. Power. A flurry of transition memos. Endless congratulatory phone calls.
In unveiling his party’s full platform Saturday morning, Mark Carney released a strange plan for strange times: A protectionist plan to return Canada to the world stage. The costed platform document, released after Canadians have already begun voting, sets the stakes in its second sentence: “Our sovereignty is under threat.” In response, Carney wants to open markets, integrate with our...
The comedian Robin Williams famously likened living in Canada to “living in a really nice apartment over a meth lab”, a line that was much funnier when the dealer down below didn’t get high on his own supply and suddenly start threatening to expand his operations into your home. Given this recent twist in our bilateral dynamic, the punditry plotline...
During Thursday night’s English-language leaders’ debate, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre told Liberal Leader Mark Carney that “We need a change, and you, sir, are not a change.” He’s right on the first part, but wrong on the second. For more than two years, while Justin Trudeau occupied the Prime Minister’s Office, national and regional public opinion polls consistently revealed...
The first thing people ask me when I give a talk or an interview about my book “Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre” is what the title means. The answer is easy: at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a piece saying there are two kinds of politicians, “rippers” and “weavers.” Rippers are...
Mark Carney the Rookie Politician would like you to know that Mark Carney the Experienced Central Banker is a serious person. The kind of man forged in the crucible of molten global crises, whether of the global financial or post-Brexit variety. In short, Carney wants Canadians to agree that he alone is able to take on the volatility that is...
As we enter the final stretch of the 2025 federal election campaign, a generational divide has opened up in Canadian politics—one that’s not just visible in the polling numbers, but audible in the voices of voters themselves. In a recent Abacus Data survey, we asked Canadians to explain—in their own words—why they’re voting the way they are. No prompts. No...
Susan Delacourt: Well, the debates are now behind us, advance voting is under way, and I am thinking a lot this weekend about the whole idea of change. I wonder whether the debates changed anything. I’m curious to see if poll trends change in the last week of this election. And I’m also reflecting on Pierre Poilievre and whether we’ve...
Mark Carney largely resisted the predictable onslaught from his opponents during the English leaders’ debate on Thursday night. He was helped by a boneheaded move by the hopeless Leaders’ Debates Commission that allowed fake news outlets into the room. Any difficult patches Carney may have experienced were pushed to the bottom of the page in post-debate analysis, owing to the...
Thirty-seven years ago, inside a television studio in Ottawa, John Turner thrust an index finger at Brian Mulroney and warned that with one stroke of a pen Mulroney had reversed 120 years of national development and thrown Canada into the "north-south influence of the United States.""When the economic levers go, the political independence is sure to follow," Turner said.
There are probably few areas of Canada where Liberal fortunes have turned as dramatically as they have in Niagara Falls
As we enter the 10-day homestretch of Canada’s most important election campaign in generations, many voters will be spending this long Easter weekend either casting their ballots in advance polls across the country or taking a last look at the very different candidates. This week provided a crucial window on those candidates, especially the two top rivals, Prime Minister Mark...
Three leaders walked on to a stage in Montreal on Thursday night with one mission — to take the front-runner shine off Liberal Leader Mark Carney.If there was any doubt about Carney’s lead in this election, it was dispelled within minutes after the opening of the English-language leaders’ debate.
With the English-language leaders’ debate now in the rear-view mirror, the 2025 federal election campaign moves into its most important phase: the closing week.
The impact on the broader election race was a nothingburger: there simply were no flashpoints that would justify anyone shifting their vote
The dynamics of this election campaign have been nothing if not unusual. Consider, for example, that the Liberals’ remarkable ascent has had very little to do with the flagging fortunes of their Conservative rivals — and plenty to do with the near-collapse of the NDP and Bloc Québécois. Support for the independantistes has declined almost exclusively due to threats from...
Surprisingly absent from the debate was major focus on U.S. President Donald Trump. His offences were just one of many themes
Liberal Leader Mark Carney has pledged to cut Confederation Bridge tolls by more than half and reduce the cost of Northumberland Ferries fares by at least 50 per cent.Carney made the announcement during a campaign stop Monday in Charlottetown, speaking at a news conference at the University of Prince Edward Island's medical school.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has thrown his weight behind withholding federal funding from Canadian universities who don’t do enough to fight antisemitism. Speaking in French at a news conference in British Columbia on Sunday, Poilievre said public funds should not be used to support hate.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Monday his party will release its costed platform on Tuesday, giving voters a sense of what a government led by him would do and where it would cut to pay for it all. The platform release comes the day after advance polls close and less than a week before election day. Poilievre is the last...
Canada's political leaders are remembering Pope Francis as a humble leader with a deep moral obligation and the spiritual courage to help the world's most vulnerable."Today, the world lost a man who profoundly touched the lives of billions of people," Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a campaign stop in Charlottetown on Monday.
A Conservative candidate critical of Hong Kong laws is the target of a “transnational repression operation,” Canada’s election interference task force said on Monday.
Two hours after sunrise on Easter Sunday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made a campaign stop at a grocery store in Surrey, B.C., to criticize the price tag of the Liberals’ election platform, which would cost Canadian taxpayers $130 billion in spending. “Mark Carney is worse than Justin Trudeau,” said Poilievre, standing in the produce aisle of a Fruiticana store to...
Conservative leader noncommittal about what he would do with Liberal firearms policy. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dodged questions Sunday about whether he would repeal the federal government's handgun ban, a measure brought in to tamp down on the diversion of legal firearms into the hands of bad actors. Poilievre hasn't said much during this campaign about what he would do...
There's just a week left in this election. This time next Monday, we will be getting ready to vote. At the outset, I wrote about the economic question at the heart of this election. The issue, as I saw it then, was how best to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump. But embedded in that question is a deeper one...
The Liberals have an eight-point advantage over the Conservatives on Day 30 of the 36-day federal election campaign.A three-day rolling sample by Nanos Research conducted on April 17, 19 and 20 has the Liberals at 44 per cent over the Conservatives, who are at 36 per cent nationally.
Pope Francis, who took the world by storm with his non-traditional papacy and made history for delivering a long-awaited apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in Canadian residential school abuses against Indigenous people, has died at age 88. While media and observers instantly christened Francis the “people’s Pope” for his down-to-earth persona, critics say the first pope from the...
A gender gap is widening in the 2025 federal election, with more men relating to the Conservative leader than women
Federal officials are working on a plan to direct more cloud computing contracts toward Canadian companies after receiving strong industry pushback over an existing competition to shortlist a small number of American multinationals for similar work. When asked about the internal criticism revealed in government documents, Shared Services Canada spokesperson Michael Gosselin said the department “is in the initial planning...
Canadians will receive an extra carbon tax rebate on April 22. The last Canada Carbon Rebate arrives on Tuesday after Liberal Leader Mark Carney killed the federal consumer price on carbon. Only those who filed their 2024 income taxes electronically by April 2 will receive the payment on Tuesday. Otherwise, the final payment will be deposited once the Canada Revenue...
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...
In 2015, as a Liberal wave swept Justin Trudeau to a majority government, the Conservative candidate in the riding of Carleton barely managed to avoid being swamped on election day. That candidate, Pierre Poilievre, won by just 705 votes over his Liberal rival whose support, like many Liberals across the country, was surging in the final week. The totals in...
New spending for defence, housing, infrastructure would mean higher deficits under Liberal plan. Liberal Leader Mark Carney framed his fiscal and spending plan on Saturday in terms of a crisis — "the biggest crisis of our lifetimes," as he put it. The United States is attacking Canada's economy and threatening Canadian sovereignty. The American president is "trying to fundamentally restructure...
Pierre Poilievre was once described as having the “face of a choir boy and the heart of a political pit bull” with a habit of “shooting blindly from the lip.” On a bright early spring evening, a queue of Canadian rallygoers snaked through a hotel lobby and around the block. Some had waited in the cold for an hour. Cars...
Document appears to be a poorly-edited fake version of a real government webpage about filing taxes. Three Conservative candidates have shared online images of what purports to be a government document aimed at influencing inmates to vote against their party — but the document appears to be a poorly-edited fake version of a real government webpage. In posts on social...
The mayor of Niagara Falls in Canada is not American, but he’s so close. Jim Diodati has an almost American accent, American cousins and an American best friend. He grew up watching American TV. A nephew played baseball at the University of Alabama. Diodati’s affinity for all things American was once so strong that he would have voted for Donald...
Conservative leader blasts Carney for big spending promises but hasn't released a plan of his own yet. With about a week left before election day and well over two million ballots cast so far, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre still hasn't released a costed platform outlining his vision for the country and how he'd pay for his multibillion-dollar commitments. Conservative campaign...
Monarch mentions his role as 'King of Canada' during address to Italian parliament. As King Charles made a historic address to a joint session of Italy's parliament the other day, he talked of that country's past, present and future, and its ties to the United Kingdom. He nodded to the poets Virgil and Dante, spoke of the "wonders of the...
Canadians continue to head to the polls in advance voting today as federal leaders find themselves out West and in the capital.Both NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre remain in British Columbia on Sunday, where they will both make announcements.Liberal Leader Mark Carney is scheduled for an afternoon event in Ottawa.
- Elections Canada says early voters set a new record for turnout on the first day of advanced polls. Nearly two million people showed up to cast a ballot on Friday, the first of four days for advanced voting in the federal election. Many of those voters were met with long lineups at polling stations across the country. Elections Canada...
The federal Liberals and NDP both released their costed campaign platforms Saturday as Canada's 45th general election inched toward the finish line. With just over one week left before election day, and on the second of four days of advance voting, Liberal Leader Mark Carney and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh published documents outlining their full campaign commitments and what they...
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s full election platform focuses on a slate of commitments meant to build up core Canadian values in the face of strong American headwinds and would add $48 billion to the deficit over four years. The big spending package – which is offset to some degree by revenue-generating measures such as a wealth tax – is warranted...
BOSTON (AP) -- Harvard University announced Monday that it was suing the Trump administration to halt a freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration's demands to limit activism on campus.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's purse was stolen at a Washington, D.C. restaurant Sunday night, according to department officials.
Google confronts an existential threat Monday as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into a ruthless monopoly.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump repeated his attacks Monday against the chair of the Federal Reserve, demanding that the central bank lower its key interest rate to boost the economy.
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...
A helicopter broke apart in midair Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront, killing a family of Spanish tourists, including three children in the latest high-profile aviation disaster in the U.S., officials said. Mayor Eric Adams said the flight began at a downtown heliport around 3 p.m. and that the dead had...
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump has launched tariff wars with nearly all of America's trading partners. And there's no end in sight.
On March 11, China concluded its annual 'Two Sessions' — a pair of legislative and advisory meetings focused on Beijing's economic priorities for the year ahead. The slew of macroeconomic measures announced at those meetings are now taking on heightened significance amid the escalating U.S.–China trade war.
The reciprocal tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on April 2 – what he referred to as “Liberation Day” – hit Southeast Asian economies particularly hard. While they and others received a brief respite in the form of a 90-day pause, with a universal lowered reciprocal tariff of 10 per cent, tariffs on goods from China spiked to 14...
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Is it time I admit defeat, pull up my tent and go home? For 30 years I have advocated for reductions to Canada’s military spending, and it keeps rising and rising. Now it’s reached the point where Canada is the 6th highest in actual dollars within NATO (after USA, Germany, UK, France, Poland). Responding to expensive plans to increase military...
Last fall, before the Trump shitstorm, advisers to the prime minister saw the black clouds gathering to the south. The new president had not yet been sworn into office, but it was clear Canada was in the crosshairs.
The 10 men who have governed the Bank of Canada since its inception in 1934 have been taciturn types, studiously avoiding the mud-holes of public controversy. Central banks trade in trust, and must project immutability and stability.That’s why it was so unusual in 2012 to hear Mark Carney, then governor of the Bank, apologize to Canadians for screwing up.
There was a time when Canada lost the best and the brightest in a "brain drain" to the United States. Is the reverse beginning to happen now?
David Herle, Scott Reid, Jordan Leichnitz, and Kory Teneycke provide insights on the latest in Canadian politics.
On April 28, Canadians will vote in a new federal government. Voters have gotten to know the front-runners – Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal leader Mark Carney … but what about the people steering them? With a week left, we’re looking at the people running this election’s leading campaigns – and the strategies driving the Liberal and Conservative war...
One week from today Canadians will cast their ballots to pick their next government, in what has been described as an existential election amid U.S. President Trump's trade and sovereignty threats. As we enter the final stretch of the campaign, parties are shifting their strategies to ensure they get supporters to the polls and secure every vote they can. What...
