Rahim Mohamed

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NDP leadership hopefuls say workers shouldn't be fooled by Poilievre's blue-collar message

Conservatives hold a commanding lead with self-identified blue-collar voters, pollster Dan Arnold noted. Three contenders to be the federal NDP’s next leader say they’re not giving up on the party’s traditional blue-collar base, after multiple speakers at the recent Conservative national convention touted the party’s electoral gains on their turf. The Conservatives fell short of winning last year’s election but...

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NDP leadership hopefuls McPherson, Ashton signal break from Avi Lewis as race enters critical stretch

NDP leadership hopefuls Heather McPherson and Rob Ashton are stressing their differences from social activist Avi Lewis as the party’s leadership race hits a critical juncture. Both campaigns told National Post that the two candidates are aligned on several of the race’s top issues, including the federal NDP’s relationship with provincial wings, the role of labour unions in the party...

Rahim Mohamed

Western alienation has declined to a four-year low: poll

Tensions reached a boiling point under Carney's Liberal predecessor Justin Trudeau, whose anti-fossil fuels policies were a major irritant to the region. A new poll shows that tensions with Ottawa are declining in all four western provinces, with perceptions of the federal government improving especially rapidly in Alberta. The poll, taken by Pollara Strategic Insights, finds that half of Western...

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Is it 'treason' for Alberta separatists to maneuver with foreign officials? Ottawa says no

Unlike the U.S. Logan Act, Canada has no law on the books stopping citizens from meeting with foreign governments. Federal officials say that Alberta separatists going around Ottawa and repeatedly meeting with U.S. officials to advance their cause is legal for Canadians, within certain limits, even though similar behaviour could be prohibited elsewhere. When separatist organizer Jeffrey Rath claimed last...

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Danielle Smith says she's open to shipping oil to Pacific via U.S. Northwest

Smith's comments come just weeks after Saskatchewan-based potash giant Nutrien announced plans to build a $1-billion export terminal at Washington State's Port of Longview

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Ex-Tory MP Rahim Jaffer mulling federal Edmonton byelection run

Former four-term MP Rahim Jaffer says he’s thinking about running for the Edmonton area seat currently held by departing Conservative Matt Jeneroux. Jaffer told National Post that he saw the stars aligning for a possible comeback when Jeneroux announced last month he’d be resigning from Parliament, noting the news eerily dovetailed with a development in his personal life.

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NDP leadership hopefuls say Guilbeault not welcome in their party after quitting cabinet

If now-backbench Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault was looking for sympathy, he won't find it from four of the five candidates for NDP leader

Tracy Moran, Rahim Mohamed

Attention-seeking or a chance to 'plant seeds'?: Why Alberta separatists keep travelling south of the border

Would you rather sip drinks poolside in Palm Beach, Fla., or trudge through the snow of Alberta?

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With an eye on the party's future, go-getter Tory MP Jivani says he doesn't have time for party infighting

Jivani has lately been spending a lot of time meeting young Canadians. Conservative MP Jamil Jivani doesn’t yet have a critic assignment, but he’s still finding plenty of ways to keep himself busy. One glance at the link-heavy website for the Yale Law graduate’s new “Restore the North” initiative conjures up the image of an overachieving high school senior anxiously...

Tracy Moran, Rahim Mohamed

Another Alberta separatist leader is courting U.S. conservatives in Washington and Mar-a-Lago

Another Alberta separatist has travelled south of the border to woo American conservatives. In recent months, members of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a separatist organization, have boasted of meetings in Washington, D.C., with senior-level officials from the U.S. administration. Now, the only political party affiliated with Alberta’s independence movement, the Republican Party of Alberta (RPA), is making its own...

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NDP leadership race is a battle between building a big tent and returning to the party's labour roots

The NDP had its worst result ever in April's federal election, sinking down to just seven MPs. Two separate paths to party renewal — and three very different contenders — have emerged as the race to choose the next leader of the federal NDP begins to take shape. Article content While still in its opening weeks, the contest is already...

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NDP leadership candidate McPherson stands by 'purity test' remarks after criticism from fellow MP

— NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson isn’t backing down from her claim that supporters of the party shouldn’t have to pass an ideological “purity test,” after a fellow NDP MP said she was “appalled” by her use of the term. “Listen, the idea of opening up our table, and making us a party that welcomes more people in, is the...

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Conservative MP says federal inaction on wildfires led to Atlantic Canada forest bans

An Alberta Conservative MP is blaming the Liberal government for a pair of contentious provincial bans on outdoor activities, saying federal officials didn’t do enough to stave off tinder dry conditions in Atlantic Canada. Michelle Rempel Garner told reporters in Ottawa that years of Liberal inaction on wildfire preparedness forced Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to take the unprecedented action...

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Election forecaster says Poilievre will easily win byelection ahead of early voting

Canada’s leading election forecaster says that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is a near lock to win the upcoming Battle River—Crowfoot byelection, but adds that the more interesting question could be by how much. “I just don’t see Poilievre losing this, or even coming close to losing this,” Philippe J. Fournier, founder of election forecasting website 338Canada , told the National...

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Measles outbreak can be traced to Trudeau politicizing COVID vaccines, Tory MP claims

An Alberta Conservative MP said she thinks the measles outbreak in her province can be traced back to the COVID pandemic and loss of trust in vaccines due to the federal government’s lack of transparency about their risks. Article content “Years after COVID, broken trust in government health directives has not been addressed for many Canadians,” Michelle Rempel Garner, formerly...

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Alberta separatists slam Poilievre for declaring himself a 'Canadian patriot' opposed to secession

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was slammed by several separatist opponents in the province Monday after he said that the province should stay part of Canada, no matter what. “Pierre Poilievre and the federal Conservatives want Albertan votes but not Albertan autonomy. Saying Alberta should stay no matter what shows exactly how little respect they have for the province’s right to...

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Meet the military trailblazer who's gunning for Pierre Poilievre in rural Alberta byelection

A trailblazer in uniform, Critchley was just 17 years old when she became the second woman ever to serve as an armoured crewman in her unit. She and dad Steve later made history as the first father–daughter gunnery crew in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. She’s now looking to take out Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in one of the safest...

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O'Toole, Ambrose, Baird and others call on Carney to take action against Iran

More than 250 prominent Canadians have signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to dial up the pressure against Iran. The letter, sent by pro-Israel group Allies for a Strong Canada, urges Carney to take decisive action to counter Iran’s “malign influence” on the Middle East and broader global landscape.

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Prince Rupert mayor sides with Eby over Smith on Northern Gateway pipeline reboot

'It's so hard to have a discussion about an imaginary project,' Mayor Herb Pond said

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Danielle Smith reignites feud with Guilbeault over his plans for Canada's national parks

Steven Guilbeault may no longer be federal environment minister, but Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she still sees him as a threat to the province’s oil and gas industry. Smith said on her weekly radio show this weekend that Guilbeault, now heritage minister, has an “overt motive” to establish new federally protected parks in the path of pipelines and other...

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Poll finds that Alberta-Ottawa tensions are boosting Smith's popularity

Separatist winds are lifting the political sails of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, according to a study from an Alberta pollster. The province-wide poll, taken this month by Calgary’s Janet Brown, found that Smith’s popularity has ticked upward from the same time last year, giving her a double-digit edge over rival NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi. Asked how impressed they were with...

Rahim Mohamed

Separatists want to 'hold Poilievre's feet to the fire' in Alberta byelection bid

'You could almost run a straw bale in our riding under the Conservative flag and that would get elected.'

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'The boss has changed': Rookie Calgary Liberal MP says he's ready to fight for Alberta's place in Canada

Corey Hogan said a silver lining is that Ottawa-Alberta relations have nowhere to go but up after Trudeau

Rahim Mohamed

Smith lowers bar for Alberta referendum with separatism sentiment emerging

Alberta's premier said she wouldn't stand in the way of a citizen-led referendum on independence.

Rahim Mohamed

Liberals drop Edmonton candidate who praised Hamas, Hezbollah in video

Loyola said in the 2009 video taken at an anti-NATO protest that Hamas and Hezbollah, both listed terrorist organizations in Canada, should be lionized, not condemned

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Danielle Smith proposes 'provincial autonomy' alliance to Quebec

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has invited Quebec counterpart François Legault to form a common front for greater provincial autonomy within Canada, in a letter obtained by the National Post. “I see an opportunity before us, as the democratically elected leaders of Alberta and Quebec, to chart a path toward a new era in Canadian federalism,” writes Smith in the letter...

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Polls suggest Poilievre is losing edge on affordability

Liberal, Tory leaders equally likely to act on housing affordability, survey says. It wasn’t so long ago that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had shot to the top of the polls by promising to make life more affordable for everyday Canadians. But two recent surveys suggest he’s losing his edge on all-important pocketbook issues, just as the campaign kicks in to...

Rahim Mohamed, Christopher Nardi

Poilievre says he'll keep retirement age at 65 in play for boomers

Voters ages of 65 to 74 have turned out in the biggest numbers in every federal election since 2004. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his government would hold the retirement age at 65 and delay the mandatory RRSP withdrawal date by two years in a bid to attract baby boomer voters.

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Poilievre calls Smith’s oilpatch demands ‘reasonable,’ challenges Carney to disclose foreign oil investments

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Friday that a list of energy-related demands put out by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was “very reasonable” but wouldn’t commit to meeting them all if he becomes prime minister. “You’ll have to see the rest of our platform roll out in due course,” Poilievre told reporters, speaking at a campaign style announcement in suburban Ottawa...

Rahim Mohamed, Stuart Thomson

NDP MP says he won't play Poilievre's 'procedural games' to bring down Trudeau

Angus said he would 'put country first' and would 'not vote with Pierre Poilievre to force an election.' At least one NDP MP is reluctant to bring down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government and force a federal election if it means putting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in power.

Rahim Mohamed

Poilievre blasts PM as 'extreme' for backing arrest of Israeli prime minister

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his assertion that he would support the arrest in Canada of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on an International Criminal Court warrant, after a Liberal MP said it “discredits” the court. The Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre called the prime minister’s comments “ridiculous.” “Canada supports internatio

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Raucous chants, Rogan shout-outs and Trump's plan: How the MMA world is flocking to Poilievre

After the Trump election campaign, Poilievre now has a new template for how to appeal to young men who may not have been otherwise inclined to vote for anyone. It might have been a sign of the times last weekend when a UFC event in Edmonton descended into an anti-Justin Trudeau rally, especially as the worlds of mixed martial arts...

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How the Poilievre Tories think they'll beat Canada's conservative urban curse

Right-leaning parties west of Ontario have been left with just a handful of urban seats after October’s provincial elections, but pundits say this won’t necessarily slow down Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s momentum in major cities, so long as he stays focused on the issues affecting urbanites. “My sense, from people I talk to, is that the Conservatives are still in...

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Incumbent fatigue and fizzling culture wars: Strategists find lessons for Poilievre in provincial elections

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre has likely kept a close eye on this month’s provincial election races in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan, where hot-button culture war issues like gender identity in schools haven’t appeared to move the needle with voters. Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe squeaked out a narrow victory in Monday’s provincial election that was marked by big gains...

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Poilievre's 'conspicuous' silence on the B.C. election is getting louder as the vote nears

British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby’s personal crusade to force the province’s upstart Conservative Party to add “B.C.” to its ballot name ended last week when a judge refused to schedule a last-minute hearing on the matter.

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CRA wouldn't meet with Jewish charity for years before revoking its charitable status: documents

Documents obtained by the National Post show that Canada Revenue Agency wouldn’t meet with senior officials at the Jewish National Fund for years as it tried to bring itself in compliance with the agency’s rules for charities. The papers detail a mostly one-sided series of correspondences between 2019 and 2023, in which the CRA didn’t respond to efforts on the...

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The attempt on Trump's life has made his re-election all but inevitable

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks to be OK after a bullet grazed his ear on Saturday evening, in a failed attempt on his life at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa.

Rahim Mohamed

Toronto is fortress Liberal no more

A tenuous situation for the Liberals gave way to calamity overnight as the last votes were counted in the Toronto—St. Paul’s byelection. The final tally, reported at 4:44 AM ET, showed that Conservative candidate Don Stewart had beat Liberal Leslie Church by a margin of 590 votes.