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Welcome to Election 2025 and the weekly campaign edition of On The Contrary, in which Susan Delacourt and Matt Gurney...
Canada is just days into its own federal election campaign and Donald Trump has already pulled the fire alarm. More...
In a little more than five weeks, either Mark Carney or Pierre Poilievre will be the prime minister of Canada...
Matt Gurney: Well, here we are. Yay, I guess. There goes our April. For the one or two readers who...
The two leading contenders to be Canada’s next prime minister are not vying to get that job on the basis...
New prime minister Mark Carney didn’t go out of his way to be a champion for women with his cabinet...
Mark Carney, who will officially become prime minister on Friday, is walking into the job as a serious threat to...
Every decade or so, the federal Liberal party has had to reinvent itself or risk extinction. That job now falls...
Justin Trudeau spent the last days of his time as prime minister with his political life flashing before his eyes...
If there was any doubt that Canada-U.S. relations have reached a breaking point this week, Justin Trudeau dispelled it in...
How many countries will Donald Trump and his enablers try to put in their place in the space of a...
Doug Ford now has everything that federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has wanted for quite a while: an election out...
Susan Delacourt: I don’t know if you’ve noticed, Matt, but we are days away from an Ontario election. While it’s...
If Mark Carney is the next prime minister who has to deal with Donald Trump, the U.S. president may need...
Three years ago this week, Canada’s capital was in the midst of an occupation by the so-called “Freedom Convoy,” prompting...
No one in the Liberal party, perhaps understandably, wants to make too much of the parallels between Chrystia Freeland’s bid...
Susan Delacourt: Donald Trump is no friend to progressives in Canada, to state the obvious. But I’m sure I’m not...
It’s starting to become clear why Pierre Poilievre was so keen to have an election last fall. Not only is...
In a recurring feature, Susan Delacourt, a small-l liberal, and Matt Gurney, a small-c conservative, bring their different perspectives —...
Justin Trudeau is facing down one of the most powerful threats to Canada at a moment when his own power...
The race to become Canada’s next Liberal leader is shaping up into the battle that Justin Trudeau keenly wanted to...
Susan Delacourt: Any other week, Matt, we probably would have been talking about Justin Trudeau’s resignation last Monday. But Donald...
Justin Trudeau spent the past year saying he wasn’t a guy who could walk away from a fight. Today, he...
One of the most momentous weeks of Justin Trudeau’s political career came to a close on Friday with arguably his...
Justin Trudeau has had many bad days as prime minister. But Monday, Dec. 16, 2024 will likely come to be...
In a recurring feature, Susan Delacourt, a small-l liberal, and Matt Gurney, a small-c conservative, bring their different perspectives —...
Donald Trump was not only the host for Friday’s dinner with Justin Trudeau and his team — he was also...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Pierre Poilievre are very different kinds of conservative leaders. Their response to Donald Trump’s tariffs...
Susan Delacourt: Liberals, at least the ones with some optimism left in them, are pretty sure that good news for...
Canadians have had more than two weeks to let Donald Trump’s reelection sink in here, and a new poll from...
Donald Trump’s victory has produced two types of Canadians — those who hope nothing like that happens here, and those...
Progressive-leaning voters are going to be looking for some kind of silver lining in Donald Trump’s return to power in...
The tag line on one of the new Liberal ads — “We won’t go back” — is a very unsubtle...
It is the question bedevilling progressive-leaning people north and south of the Canada-U.S. border throughout this raucous, election-filled fall —...
Susan Delacourt: The current Liberal leadership drama has had a lot of people riveted over the past couple of weeks...
This week’s Liberal caucus meeting will prove to be an important milestone in the career of Justin Trudeau. The lingering...
Ten years ago this week, Justin Trudeau was assembling all the pieces that would make him prime minister within a...
Susan Delacourt: Earlier this week, for non-column purposes, you and I were chatting about the fire hose of news in...
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is not wrong when he says that dangerous politics are being played with national...
Pierre Poilievre’s popularity has taken a significant hit in the weeks since Parliament returned from the summer break, according to...
Pierre Poilievre’s popularity has taken a significant hit in the weeks since Parliament returned from the summer break, according to...
It’s time to put this Parliament out of its misery — or at least on life support. Canadians can be...
Matt Gurney: This one feels a bit like déjà vu all over again, but not a ton has changed politically...
Justin Trudeau sat down recently for an interview with his fellow Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, and the hour-long conversation has...
Two of the most recent polls are putting Justin Trudeau’s Liberals back in 2015 — and not the better part...
Conservatives appear to be trying everything this fall to turn their poll lead into eventual election victory, with the exception...
It was a confident Justin Trudeau, sitting on the set of the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in New...
Susan Delacourt: A funny thing happened on the way to Parliament getting back in business last week. And no, I...
Only one political party came out of Monday’s federal byelections with total victory — the Bloc Québécois — and it...
Matt Gurney: Well, that was a week. I’d hoped for a bit more of a gradual re-entry to reality as...
Pierre Poilievre and Doug Ford don’t have a lot in common, except maybe their desire to hold elections early. Yes...
It was a bit of bad luck for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, having to hold their annual cabinet retreat on the...
There are many challenges ahead this fall for the governing Liberals, but swapping ministers may not be the solution for...
Justin Trudeau got a bit of a reprieve this summer from the questions about whether he was staying on to...
Susan Delacourt: The Liberal caucus is set to meet in a few weeks in Nanaimo, B.C., and while you and...
It can’t be a great summer to be a Liberal, if MPs back in their ridings are hearing the same...
By now, Justin Trudeau’s unpopularity is not a bug in Canadian politics, but a feature. It is the starting point...
In a recurring feature, Susan Delacourt, a small-l liberal, and Matt Gurney, a small-c conservative, bring their different perspectives —...
Justin Trudeau kept it simple with his statement on Joe Biden’s decision to bow out of the U.S. presidential race...
When Justin Trudeau took over the leadership of his party in 2013, he vowed there would be no more “hyphenated...