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Former federal Conservative cabinet minister Tony Clement is considering a comeback in the riding he once represented, the Star has learned. Clement did not seek re-election as the MP for Parry Sound—Muskoka in 2019 after resigning from the Conservative caucus over a sexting scandal.
After a year-and-a-half marked by defections, resignations and sagging poll numbers, Pierre Poilievre is staring down yet another challenge. Can the Conservatives hold onto a seat that his party has held for the past 18 years?
A fractured movement, a premier in the hot seat and a cowboy-hat-toting separatist kicked out of her party. Such is the aftermath of Alberta’s referendum.
It was after a debate in Edmonton that Scott Aitchison’s phone started ringing. He missed it the first time because the Conservative MP, who was running for the party leadership at the time, was working the room. It’s just something, he says, that “small-town mayors do.”
Earlier this month, with MPs still on summer break, a group of Canadians with a deep distrust of the federal government descended on a parliamentary committee room to tell politicians they felt lied to. The men and women from across the country came to Conservative MP Dean Allison’s event about COVID-19 vaccines, the injuries and deaths they believe were caused...
The Conservative party quietly stripped support for right-to-work legislation from its official policy book earlier this year, an unannounced change that underscores Pierre Poilievre’s effort to shed a position long opposed by organized labour as he courts union votes. The amendment was approved by Conservative MPs in March and posted online without public announcement after party members failed at their...
During Donald Trump’s first term as president, Pierre Poilievre was asked about criticism of the Trudeau government for its plan to retaliate against tariffs imposed by the U.S. on Canadian steel and aluminum. Poilievre was not the one doing the criticizing. Rather, it was the People’s Party of Canada, then a new right-wing political upstart, which had sent out a...
A majority of Canadians support Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to walk away from trade talks with the U.S., a new poll suggests. Results of the Abacus Data poll also suggest a divide among Conservative voters, underscoring the challenges facing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre amid the ongoing Canada-U.S. trade turmoil.
Tories both inside and outside caucus reveal concerns over low morale, lingering frustrations about the party’s loss in the last election and uncertainty about how they can close the gap with Liberals. For Pierre Poilievre, this summer was meant to be one of reset. Instead, it brought public infighting sparked by a remark Poilievre made about a prominent Conservative organizer...
When Prime Minister Mark Carney stood alongside Alberta’s premier earlier this month to herald a plan for a new oil export pipeline, the news came with a massive taxpayer-funded caveat. In the absence of a private firm to build the proposed oil corridor, the pair confirmed, the federally owned Trans Mountain Corp. would lead the roughly $40-billion project.
Sniping over "Liberal lobbyists" working for a B.C. Conservative leadership campaign and federal Conservatives at odds over a new data centre announcement has some Conservatives calling for more discipline in the movement under Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. On Thursday, Caroline Elliott, who finished a close second to Kerry-Lynne Findlay in the B.C. Conservative leadership race, issued a direct response to...
Poilievre's office on Tuesday announced his 'affordability team,' which saw key members of his caucus switch titles
Eleanor Olszewski jokes that, like most good Albertans, she originally comes from Saskatchewan. Born in Swift Current, Sask., Olszewski called the small city home for only a couple of years. Her family moved to Medicine Hat, Alta. where she was raised, before leaving for Edmonton to attend university, achieving degrees first in pharmacy and then later law, eventually settling down...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is expected to table its long-awaited legislation aimed at online safety this week, including a ban on social media platforms for minors. A government official, speaking on the condition of background, confirmed plans to present a bill in the coming days, which will usher in a path to create a new regulator and target different...
Some are being more vocal than others. Former Alberta finance minister Travis Toews says it is important for federal Conservatives in Alberta to publicly state their position about remaining a part of Canada, but acknowledged there are “various levels of comfort in entering the debate” in the party's caucus...
'Simply building a pipeline is not the complete answer,' said Manning. On the eve of the 1995 referendum vote in Quebec, Preston Manning rose in the House of Commons to ask the Liberal government of the day how it might be willing to change to convince a “soft sovereigntist or a discontented federalist” to vote against leaving the country. Article...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is abandoning efforts by his predecessor to reintroduce into the Canadian Human Rights Act the ability to bring forward complaints of online hate speech. The controversial provision, known as section 13, was repealed under the former Conservative government of Stephen Harper, with efforts to revive it advanced by former prime minister Justin Trudeau as part...
Marilyn Gladu was planning to leave politics when she says a conversation with Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon changed her mind. Gladu had a few offers lined up as she contemplated exiting her role as a Conservative MP, one she had held since 2015, and was pondering a return to engineering, a field she had spent years working in before...
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says his province will begin talks with the federal government around how to find a “workable place” when it comes to the question of charging an industrial carbon tax. “We’re open to the discussion about finding a place where that would work for the industries that are employing people here,” he told National Post on Tuesday...
Less than a week after winning last year’s election and just days before he was set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney was looking for art to hang on his office walls. Staff who arrived at the National Gallery of Canada that Saturday morning had been instructed to dress casually: sport coats and dress pants...
This week's announcement is expected to feature key dates surrounding Alberta's pipeline proposal. Alberta and the federal government are looking at a fall date for when Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet will designate a pipeline to the West Coast as being in the national interest, National Post has learned. Building a new one-million barrel-a-day pipeline from Alberta to the West...
Prime Minister Mark Carney raised concerns about the leak of a provincial electors list in a meeting with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Ottawa on Friday, according to his office. The pair met to discus outstanding issues regarding the energy deal that was signed in November, with Smith in the city to speak at annual conservative networking conference.
When it comes to the federal government’s plan to recruit upwards of 100,000 more people into the trades, there stands one demographic likely to benefit the most. Men, and more specifically, young men. Those inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government say the pledge, announced last week as part of the spring economic update, reflects commitments he has made around building...
A former Conservative cabinet minister who is no stranger to floor-crossings says Pierre Poilievre ought to “double his efforts” in the wake of a fourth member crossing the floor to join the Liberals — a move that now leaves him more exposed. Peter MacKay, a co-founder of the Conservative party after having led the former Progressive Conservatives before it merged...
The federal government says it will not renew funding next year for an initiative launched to help hire more diverse journalists and support those entering the screen industry. It says changes will also be coming to a program dedicated to funding projects meant to help combat online disinformation, with several millions in grants to be held back. The cuts come...
Opposition Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if he were in U.S. President Donald Trump’s shoes, he would focus the country’s efforts on ensuring Iran never develops nuclear weapons, “without getting involved in a permanent quagmire.” Poilievre gave his assessment of the unfolding U.S-Israel war against the Iranian regime on his latest podcast appearance.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the party has always opposed the Liberals’ high-speed rail project, despite an earlier course reversal on a vote regarding measures to accelerate the expropriation of land. Poilievre this week called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to cancel the project, which has been estimated to cost between $60 billion to $90 billion.
Legislation on the issue came about after fallout from a Supreme Court of Canada decision last October
Prime Minister Mark Carney got a little bit chippy when asked by a National Post reporter if he agreed with an unnamed government official who downplayed India’s role in transnational repression and foreign interference in a briefing last week.
After Carney cancelled questions with reporters, the foreign minister was left to update the government's position. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Monday the Liberal government still wants to see a “diplomatic solution” to resolve the war in the Persian Gulf days after the prime minister said he supported the attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel.
'Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.' As the United States and Israel launched a major assault on Iran, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office said on Saturday that Canada supports the attempt to stop Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon and urged Canadians in the country to shelter in place. “Canada supports the United...
Canada lags behind its international counterparts when it comes to trading with India, warned Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, whose province trades more with the country of 1.4 billion than any other province in Canada.
The High Commissioner of India to Canada says India “will take action” depending on the outcome of a court case involving four Indian nationals accused of murder in the killing of a prominent Sikh activist in British Columbia. Dinesh Patnaik said both countries are on “same page” that “if there is any evidence we have, we will give it to...
Weeks after the 2025 federal election, Nick Belanger was on the phone when he started receiving calls from an unknown caller. Given he was already on a call, he declined to answer. The person tried again and Belanger relented. “I’m like, hello, who is this? Why do you keep calling me?” he recounts in a livestream. “Is this the Pleb?”...
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani says he stands ready to help Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government when it comes to navigating the upcoming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), after returning from Washington, D.C. last week where he met with senior officials within U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, including Vice-President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Trade Representative...
With federal Conservatives preparing to be ready for an election as soon as this spring, one outstanding question the party must answer is where party leader Pierre Poilievre will run. The party has said it is launching its candidate nomination process and calls have also begun to past candidates, with a view to being ready by
The member of Parliament representing Canada’s northernmost territory says ever since U.S. President Donald Trump began escalating his desire to control Greenland, constituents have been reaching out, concerned. Lori Idlout, speaking from Rankin Inlet, located on the western coast of Hudson’s Bay, where the federal NDP held its caucus retreat this week, recalls a phone call from one man seeking...
It’s weeks into a new year and U.S. President Donald Trump is everywhere, again. Not just everywhere, but on stage at a gathering of world elites, where he reinforced to the crowd of political leaders and the investor class that had descended on the Swiss town of Davos of his desires to make Greenland his own.
'There are just not very many people who are in a situation where I think they can have a direct line to the White House,' Jamil Jivani says. While Parliament Hill swirls with speculation about potential floor-crossings, one Conservative MP is raising his hand, but for a different reason: To assist Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government navigate the Canada-U.S. relationship...
Conservative grassroots will debate amending the party’s policy towards diversity, as well as deleting a clause that says a future government would not support legislation restricting abortion, when they meet in Calgary later this month. Delegates from across the country will gather at the party’s first convention since the 2025 spring election loss to vote on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s...
If emotions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his comments about coveting Canada as a “51st state” defined the posture of political leaders towards the cross-border relationship in 2025, business leaders are urging that cool heads prevail in the new year. With Canada set to begin formal talks with the U.S. over its trilateral agreement with Mexico in January...
While U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is free to do as it wants with its review of purchasing the F-35, he says the debate is nevertheless irritating. Carney ordered a review of its F-35 purchase back in March, shortly after becoming prime minister, with his then-defence minister saying Carney had done so to...
Pete Hoekstra said any deal the U.S. strikes with Canada will include oil, expecting that ‘there would be more oil capacity, production and export opportunities down to the United States.’ The U.S. ambassador to Canada says he is “encouraged” by the energy deal Prime Minister Mark Carney struck with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, saying he believes it will lead to...
Carney's first major step in resetting relations with India happened in June when he invited Narendra Modi to Canada
RCMP in Nova Scotia says it is investigating online threats made against Liberal MP Chris d’Entremont after his floor-crossing from the Opposition Conservatives. A spokeswoman says that Mounties in Yarmouth, located in southwestern Nova Scotia, began investigating after receiving a report of “online threats” on Wednesday.
With Carney more than willing to take Conservative ideas, what's left, one source said, becomes a test of leadership. Pierre Poilievre used to share a piece of advice when it came to political campaigning. There were two things candidates need to talk about and talk about relentlessly, he instructed a room full of young conservatives at the Manning Centre for...
Calls are intensifying from the Conservatives and New Democrats for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to answer for an announcement made by one of his parliamentary secretaries that an Irish hip-hop trio was banned from entering the country for allegations of amplifying “political violence.”
Officials flagged reports that content considered to be antisemitic had exploded on X by more than 900 per cent on the platform.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he is waiting to speak to American lawmakers and argue Canada’s case “at the appropriate time.” Poilievre made the comments in a podcast episode that aired Thursday as he prepares to return to the House of Commons next month, fresh off last week’s byelection win in rural Alberta.
Deciding where to cut carries inescapable 'political consequences,' wrote the staff of Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin. With ministers due to present their proposals for a 15 per cent spending review, deciding where to cut carries inescapable “political consequences,” according to the staff of Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin. A rare glimpse into the internal deliberations was offered to National Post —...
Less than two weeks after the Liberal cabinet was sworn in, the presidents of the five major automakers appealed directly to Prime Minister Mark Carney, requesting him to “urgently” repeal the federal zero-emission vehicle sales mandate, warning of industry-wide repercussions if it is not. More than two months later, and with no public indication as to whether the government will...
New fundraising figures show the Liberal Party of Canada has shrunk its fundraising gap with the Conservative Party of Canada, lagging by just $1.4 million in the last quarter. That’s the closest the two parties have been since Pierre Poilievre became Conservative leader.
While the federal Liberal government has signalled plans to make good on its campaign promise to give raises to military members, it is keeping tight-lipped about whether it intends to do the same for RCMP recruits. During this spring’s federal election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged to bolster the national police force by hiring another 1,000 members , creating...
When Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab dropped by a church kids camp this summer, she came to pose for photos to highlight the funding that came from the Canada Summer Jobs program.
Undated document also revealed that without the subsidies, consumers would be drawn 'to more affordable internal combustion and hybrid options.' An internal government document reveals there was awareness among some officials that Ottawa ending its electric vehicle subsidies in January would lead to an “immediate” hit to EV sales and market uncertainty, as it coincided with the United States’ rollback...
As federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre faces calls to make changes following his April election loss, the manager who ran that campaign remains an advisor, but is taking a less visible role, at least for now. Jenni Byrne’s future with the party has been a source of discussion among MPs and other Conservative supporters frustrated by the party’s loss to...
As Canada approaches a critical starting point for its electric vehicle goals, pressure is building on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to rethink its plan. Starting next year, the Liberal plan to get more electric vehicles on the road will enter its first phase: mandating sales targets for car companies, which could purchase credits, including by spending on charging infrastructure...
'It is a direct insult to the Sikh community and a grave threat to the integrity of Canada's institutions,' reads the letter.
Dhaliwal says he has received dozens of calls and more than 100 emails from constituents expressing concern. A Liberal MP says he intends to raise concerns to Prime Minister Mark Carney about the decision to invite India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Canada as part of a meeting of G7 leaders later this month. Article content Sukh Dhaliwal represents the...
