Category Archives: CP Election
Pandemic impeding efforts to recruit poll workers, secure poll locations
OTTAWA - Elections Canada says it still has a "significant need" for workers to staff polling stations across the country for the Sept. 20 federal election. The agency is hoping to hire about 232,000 ...
Sep 02, 2021
Former B.C. Green leader endorses Liberal climate plan, slams Green infighting
OTTAWA - The former leader of the Green party in British Columbia has endorsed the federal Liberals' plan for combating climate change. Andrew Weaver says the Liberal plan is "both bold and thoughtful...
Sep 02, 2021
Jagmeet Singh's custom poutine truck loses wheel on way to pre-debate photo op
MONTREAL - Jagmeet Singh's pre-debate photo op hit a bump in the road Thursday - rather, a hole - after the NDP leader's custom poutine truck lost a wheel on the way to a Montreal event. The NDP was f...
Sep 02, 2021
Free-trade area would make it easier to work in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand
OTTAWA - Canadians could have the right to live and work in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand under Conservative plans for a new free-trade area. Erin O'Toole has outlined proposals for cl...
Sep 02, 2021
Cities ask parties to pledge transit help after pandemic eats into ridership revenues
OTTAWA - Canada's municipal leaders are asking federal parties for promises to pump more money into local transit systems to combat pandemic-induced declines in revenues. Ridership dropped precipitous...
Sep 02, 2021
Close race in 2019 vote faces rematch of candidates in B.C.'s Port Moody-Coquitlam
Two candidates who met in a political duel decided by a slim margin of 153 votes in 2019 are facing each other again on Sept. 20 in British Columbia's Port Moody-Coquitlam riding. The rematch is betwe...
Sep 02, 2021
Suburban Vancouver ridings where parties look to swing province, say experts
VICTORIA - The fight for political supremacy in British Columbia on Sept. 20 will be won or lost in about 10 ridings in suburban Vancouver where tight races are expected and the potential for change t...
Sep 02, 2021
Four leaders square off in first televised debate of federal election campaign
OTTAWA - Four leaders will face off tonight in the first televised debate of the federal election campaign. The French debate on TVA, one of Quebec's most-watched networks, comes at the mid-point of t...
Sep 02, 2021
Where the federal party leaders are on Thursday, Sept. 2
The main national party leaders' scheduled public appearances for Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021: All times are local. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau Montreal 8 p.m. - TVA French debate _____ Conservative Lea...
Sep 01, 2021
Child-care system or tax credit: Parties' pitches mean varying benefits for families
OTTAWA - Six years ago, Rob Gillezeau watched as a child-care pledge he worked on for the federal New Democrats got pitted against competing policy ideas on where the country should go politically on ...
Sep 01, 2021
