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The New Brunswick Liberal Party launched its provincial election campaign on Sunday afternoon in Fredericton, alongside the nomination of party leader Susan Holt in the Fredericton South-Silverwood riding. Organizers estimated there were 500 in attendance at the Fredericton Boyce Farmers Market event, where Holt gathered with all 48 other Liberal candidates to drum up support ahead of election day. The latest…
The Bloc Québécois says its ready to wheel and deal with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party for support during confidence votes now that the Liberal government’s supply-and-confidence agreement with the NDP has ended. That support won’t come cheap, the Quebec-based Bloc said, and the sovereigntist party led by Yves-François Blanchet has already drawn up a…
Despite facing heavy pressure to ramp up military spending, the Department of National Defence (DND) has slow-rolled one of the least complex of its vehicle replacement programs. The light utility vehicle program has been on the books for several years. Its purpose is to update the military’s fleet of two-decade-old Afghan war-era Mercedes G-Wagons and civilian-grade utility…
Some voters might still see B.C. United on the ballot for the upcoming provincial election despite recently halting its “full provincewide” campaign. Lindsay Cote, executive director of B.C. United, told members Friday that it still intends to run a select number of candidates in the Oct. 19 election to make sure that the party is not…
The federal Liberal brand will be put to the test again in a byelection in the Montreal riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun on Sept. 16 — a contest Liberal Party brass hope won’t deliver a repeat of the party’s failure in a Toronto riding earlier this summer. The Liberals’ byelection loss in Toronto-St. Paul’s — a riding the party had held for more…
As the new school year began in P.E.I., MLAs were told that teachers are experiencing significantly more violence in the classroom than they did just a few years ago. The P.E.I. Teachers’ Federation told a legislative standing committee on Thursday that educators need more support to keep classrooms safe, while calling the recent spike in violence…
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he doubts a federal election will be triggered by the NDP’s decision Wednesday to end its supply-and-confidence agreement with the governing Liberals. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made the announcement Wednesday to end the deal, putting the minority Liberal government susceptible to a non-confidence vote that could bring the government down. “I…
The confidence-and-supply agreement between the NDP and Liberals has ended with a number of policy accomplishments for New Democrats — but others haven’t yet reached the finish line. The agreement struck between the two parties in March 2022 committed the NDP to supporting the Liberal government on confidence votes in exchange for legislative commitments on…
Speculation about an early election in Ontario continued to swirl this week as Premier Doug Ford definitively ruled out this year but left the door open for a potential vote in 2025. “We aren’t having an election this year,” Ford said at an unrelated news conference Tuesday, while sidestepping repeated queries from reporters about the possibility…
For a few short days, it looked like the two main parties in the New Brunswick election were offering voters a clear choice. The Progressive Conservatives under Blaine Higgs were selling their sound fiscal management — a record that, after six years of budget surpluses, would allow them to cut the provincial sales tax if re-elected….
