CP Election

'Beyond appearance': Singh makes pitch to Quebec voters on shared values

HUDSON, Que. - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he has seen a more welcoming attitude from Quebec voters towards him as the campaign has rolled along. He says there is a spirit of openness that can be ig...

Oct 16, 2019

Just one of many election battlegrounds, Montreal gets love from three leaders

OTTAWA - Montreal is getting attention from the leaders of all the top three federal parties today. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is campaigning hard in Quebec, making numerous stops to try to persona...

Oct 16, 2019

Conservatives stoke fear of NDP-Liberal coalition as Scheer pushes for majority

OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer is raising the spectre of a reckless, tax-and-spend Liberal-NDP coalition government to urge Canadians to hand the Conservatives a majority on Oct. 21. ...

Oct 16, 2019

Maxime Bernier testing voters' loyalties in Quebec's conservative Beauce

SAINT-GEORGES-DE-BEAUCE, Que. - Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, has shaped his political persona in the mould of his home region of the Beauce: fiercel...

Oct 16, 2019

Winnipeg teen with terminal cancer encourages people to get out to vote

WINNIPEG - Maddison Yetman had been looking forward to voting in her first federal election since junior high school, but she never expected it to be her last. The 18-year-old from Winnipeg recently r...

Oct 15, 2019

Trudeau says threat to his safety comes at time of online polarization and hate

TORONTO - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau called out his political opponents for widening divisions and ramping up the rhetoric Sunday after he was forced by a security threat to wear a bullet...

Oct 15, 2019

Four Green nominees in Quebec made Islamophobic comments, party says

OTTAWA - The Green party says it recently learned of Islamophobic social-media posts by four of its Quebec candidates. The party says the candidates will make a public statement of...

Oct 15, 2019

Singh walks fine line on TMX pipeline and possible Liberal coalition

SURREY, B.C. - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh tried to strike a precarious balance Sunday between his opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline and the mounting possibility of a coalition with Justin T...

Oct 15, 2019

Bloc's Yves-Francois Blanchet eyes Conservative and Liberal Quebec City ridings

LEVIS, Que. - Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is taking his campaign to the Quebec City area, hoping his party's recent momentum will lead to a breakthrough in the pro...

Oct 15, 2019

Trade barriers between provinces must be eliminated, Scheer says

QUEBEC - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he would have a meeting with premiers to push for an interprovincial free trade agreement within the first 100 days if he becomes prime minister. Scheer...

Oct 15, 2019