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National Column: Resettlement plan personal for MP
For rookie Liberal MP Arif Virani, his government’s ambitious plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees – and the backlash it […]
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National Column: Refugee backlash will strengthen
Because this is Canada, the backlash begins in the most polite of fashions.
But make no mistake, a backlash against Justin Trudeau’s plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to this country is taking root and seems certain to build. […]
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National Column: Tory movement lost as defeats pile up
The Conservatives’ defeat on Oct. 19 will not go down in history as the worst electoral beating the party has ever endured, but it has driven Canada’s conservative movement further into the political wilderness than at any other time in its recent history.
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National Column: Power shift turns Ottawa on its head
When power flips in the capital, everything turns upside down.
To the victor, the parade, the adulation, everything but the rose petals. To the vanquished, the freight entrance.
And so it was Thursday when a jaunty Prime Minister Justin Trudeau loped into his first caucus meeting to cheers and Stephen Harper returned to the House of Commons via the door reserved for recycling.
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Ambrose selected as Conservative interim leader
A few weeks after receiving 70.2 per cent of the vote in the Sturgeon River-Parkland election race, Conservative MP Rona Ambrose received the nod to serve the Conservative Party of Canada as Interim Leader.
Ambrose was first elected to Parliament in the 2004 federal election and served as Minister of Health in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government before the fall general election. […]
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National Column: Red wave swamps Tories – and catches NDP in its wake
Canada’s progressive majority got its act together on Monday and ushered Stephen Harper out with a vengeance.
In the process, they brought their own resolution to the problem of vote splitting on the left of the Conservatives, steamrolling the NDP to hand Justin Trudeau the first Liberal majority victory in 15 years.
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Ambrose to return to Ottawa
Conservative candidate Rona Ambrose will be returning to Ottawa to serve another run in the House of Commons after receiving 70.2 per cent of the vote in Monday’s federal election. Ambrose was first elected to Parliament in the 2004 federal election and swept Sturgeon River-Parkland Monday. […]
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National Column: October ghosts’ haunt Liberals, Tories
Our neighbours to the south have a name for a late-campaign jolt, the legendary “October surprise.”
Here in Canada, this year, we have been visited by the “October ghosts” in the campaign’s final hours.
For Justin Trudeau, a stunning lapse in judgment by his campaign co-chair can cause real damage to a surging campaign, particularly in Quebec. Thursday, Trudeau was fighting off the ghosts of Liberal scandals past. […]
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National Column: Fighting politics of fear in PM’s backyard
The most passionate pushback on Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s twin hot-button election issues is coming from his own backyard.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s outspoken criticism of the Conservative leader’s court appeal on the issue of niqabs at citizenship ceremonies and the stripping of citizenship from convicted terrorists in many ways pulls back the curtain on the Alberta that elected him as mayor of its largest city and handed a huge provincial majority to New Democrat Rachel Notley. […]
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Chamber forum draws small crowd to hear candidates [VIDEO]
Candidates assemble on the stage ahead of Wednesday night’s election forum. – Lucie Roy Photo videography by Stephen Dafoe About […]
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National Affairs Column: House of Harper needs infusion of fresh voices
The problems inside Stephen Harper’s campaign are real and they are deep.
They stem as much from the team around him in 2015 as the ghosts of architects of victories past who are no longer there for the Conservative leader. […]
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Christian Heritage Party leader and candidates make Morinville stop
About 30 Christian Heritage Party of Canada (CHP) supporters and interested residents popped by Higher Grounds Espresso Bar Sept. 3. Party leader Rod Taylor, Sturgeon River-Parkland candidate Ernest Chauvet, and Edmonton-Mill Woods candidate Peter Downing visited to speak on the party’s platform. […]
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National Column: Plenty of unanswered questions about NDP
From a national child-care program to balanced budgets, the abolition of the Senate and the repeal of
the Clarity Act, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has been making some hefty promises on the way to a leading position in voting intentions.
But five weeks into the campaign, he has yet to demonstrate how a New Democrat government would walk its election talk on any of the above. […]
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National Column: Another Orange Wave for Alberta?
Can a revolution repeat itself twice in five months? Or is lightning in a bottle, by its very nature, captured but once?
That is the political question in Alberta in this federal election, but the fact that any questions are being asked in Alberta during a federal campaign is news in itself.
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Ambrose talks economy and security with local Rotarians
Canada’s economy and national security were the main topics of a 20-minute presentation to local Rotarians by Federal Minister of Health and Sturgeon River–Parkland Conservative candidate Rona Ambrose Aug. 12.
The Rotary visit was Ambrose’s second to the Morinville club. Her first visit was where she announced she would be running in the newly announced Sturgeon River — Parkland riding. […]
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National Column: Wright opens door on PMO scheming
For the first time since he drew up the infamous bank draft 29 months ago, Nigel Wright sat calmly in […]