“We are committed to ensuring that the 2015 election will be the last federal election using FPTP (first-past-the-post). We’ll make sure that Canadians have a stronger voice in Ottawa – a voice that reflects and represents them.” – Justin Trudeau, Chateau Laurier Hotel, […]

The Two Michaels/Meng Wanzhou affair is generating a medley of reactions this week. They  range from immense relief in Canada that Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have returned home after being held hostage for 1,020 days in China, to celebration […]

Canadian voters have sent the clearest possible message to their newly elected and reelected representatives: Get back to work! Stop playing stupid political games. Don’t even think about elections. Make Parliament work. Finish the job you started with COVID-19. Do […]

With federal election day having arrived the campaigns are turning their attention to getting out the vote. The last poll results have been reported by the big survey firms and the final election results will not start showing up until […]

As Canadians go the polls today, most indicators point to the re-election of a Liberal government – another minority one, no stronger than the old one and perhaps a bit weaker. The best guess (it’s only a guess) is that […]

Frank Graves, the pollster, wasted no time in rendering his verdict. Three minutes after the charade ended, Graves tweeted: “OMG, is it over? … It was a meaningless waste of time. Possibly the most vacuous and tedious debate in Canadian […]

The “election about nothing,” as it was called in the beginning, has turned into a cliff-hanger – a desperately close affair with voters asked to choose between competing approaches to fundamental issues and to the role of government in the […]

Justin Trudeau’s gamble in calling an election two years ahead of schedule in a bid to convert his Liberal minority government into a majority has blown up in his face. Heading into the third week of the five-week campaign, his […]