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Federal Tories plunge into Ontario election campaign
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government have wedged themselves into the middle of the Ontario election race — repeatedly attacking Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals despite deliberately...
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Truant Trudeau says he's in touch with Canadians outside Ottawa
The Liberal Party of Canada is trumpeting Leader Justin Trudeau’s questionable House of Commons attendance in a new fundraising email that says “the real hard work doesn’t always happen in Ottawa.” The...
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Four things from the campaign trail this weekend
Hudak transit announcement derailed A photo-op with Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak on a Toronto subway car was derailed when transit police confronted Hudak and his campaign team, along with...
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A tale of two friends: Gerry Butts and Justin Trudeau
Gerald Butts Age: 42 Born: Glace Bay, N.S. Parents: Coal miner Charles Butts and nurse Rita Butts. Family: Married to Toronto lawyer Jodi (Heimpel) Butts. They have two young children, Aidan and Ava....
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Baird steps in to help campaign for Ontario PCs in Ottawa
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird lent his political heft Saturday to the provincial Progressive Conservatives in Ottawa, in an effort to help capture a city riding the Tories say is critical for...
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Ontario Votes: 5 Things that happened on the campaign trail over the weekend
1. The Liberals are the last of the political parties to release an election platform, and it’s the least surprising as it’s a re-packaging of the 2014 draft budget, as expected. Perhaps the most...
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Where the four main parties stand on transportation investment
Progressive Conservatives - Spend $2 billion per year (about $1 billion less than other parties) on transportation and transit infrastructure after budget is balanced in 2016 - Cancel plans for light...
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Chianello: Unclogging Ontario's transportation arteries
We need to worry when politicians of all stripes agree on the urgency of an issue — it means there’s actually a problem. While we don’t need them to tell us that traffic is a scourge of modern life,...
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NDP won't commit to repay funds for mailings
OTTAWA — The federal NDP won’t commit to paying back taxpayer funds spent on mailings to dozens of ridings, after the board that controls House of Commons spending said Tuesday the official Opposition...
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Chianello: Of negative Liberal ads, throwing NDP under the political bus and...
I caught about a half hour of the Tony Awards on Sunday night, during which I saw three provincial campaign commercials: two Progressive Conservative and one Liberal. Except I didn’t know it was a...
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Can Justin Trudeau deliver?
Re: After all the attacks, Justin Trudeau’s star hasn’t budged, June 18. That voters in general are as predictable as the weather is nothing new. What is fairly new, however, is that the voters are...
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Why is Trudeau popular with the public?
Re: After all the attacks, Justin Trudeau’s star hasn’t budged, June 18. Why is Liberal leader Justin Trudeau bringing up the contentious abortion issue once again to the attention of the media? Is he...
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Michael Ignatieff returns to Harvard full-time
Former federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is returning to Harvard University full-time, leaving Canada three years after his failed bid to become prime minister. Ignatieff has been named the...
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Trudeau and Liberals emerge big winners in federal byelections
The federal Liberals captured two key Toronto byelections on Monday and put up a strong showing in one of two other races in Alberta in what was a political triumph for Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau...
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NDP looking for lessons after latest byelection setback
Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says a stinging byelection loss in a downtown Toronto riding can be tied to the popularity of the local Liberal candidate, but he says his party has learned a number of...
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Robocalls verdict leaves 'unfinished business,' opposition parties say
The Conservative Party of Canada distanced itself Thursday from the guilty verdict in the Michael Sona robocalls trial, saying it ran a clean campaign in the last federal election. But political...
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Frustrated premiers want action on issue of murdered aboriginal women
The chairman of the group of premiers meeting this week in Charlottetown, P.E.I., says there are two possible routes to getting a national public inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women:...
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Conservatives continue to target press gallery — and rake in dollars doing it
The parliamentary press gallery in Ottawa is proving to be a common target for the Conservative Party of Canada, but also — somewhat ironically — financially beneficial for the Tories. The federal...
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Number of MPs not seeking re-election keeps growing
Almost 20 current Conservative MPs will not run in the next federal election, as the party continues rounding up candidates to replace departing incumbents in advance of an expected Fall 2015 campaign....
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Q and A: Liberal MP Arnold Chan on moving from the backroom into the spotlight
Four new MPs – two Conservatives, two Liberals – took their seats in the House of Commons for the first time this week, the result of byelection victories June 30. The Citizen’s Jason Fekete spoke with...
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