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OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford fired off another salvo in the on-again, off-again battle between his provincial Progressive Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party, saying his own campaign manager would have avoided the federal party’s current election woes.
With the Conservatives
lagging behind Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s party...
April 14, 2025 - 13:51 | Stuart Thomson | National Post
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre renewed his promise to use the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to restore consecutive life sentences for mass murderers.
Poilievre said on Monday that the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a Harper-era law that allowed consecutive life sentences could let “Canada’s most notorious killers… walk free early.”
“The worst mass murderers should never be allowed back on our streets. For them, a life sentence should mean what it says: a life sentence. They should only come out in a box,” said Poilievre, at a press conference in...
April 14, 2025 - 10:00 | Stuart Thomson | National Post
OTTAWA – Liberal and Conservative leaders Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre presented two different characters, but similar plans to confront U.S. President Donald J. Trump, on Radio-Canada’s popular show
Tout le monde en parle
.
“Nobody can control Donald Trump… We need to focus on what we...
April 14, 2025 - 07:14 | Antoine Trépanier | National Post
Two Liberal staffers made fake, Trump-style buttons and planted them at a conference of Canadian conservatives last week.
But they were exposed after they discussed the plot at an Ottawa bar and were overheard by a CBC reporter.
The Liberal party has acknowledged the broadcaster’s reporting of the controversy, but suggested it was a joke that got carried away.
The bombshell story shows a disturbing effort to spread disinformation, Calgary-area MP Michelle Rempel Garner told National Post, adding it should be viewed as a dishonest and disturbing attempt to distract Canadians from...
April 13, 2025 - 19:10 | National Post | National Post
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would not expand eligibility for medical assistance in dying, but pledged that Canadians would continue to have access to that right, should his party form the next government.
Poilievre made the statement during a campaign stop in his Ottawa-area riding on Saturday.
“People will continue to have the right to make that choice, the choice for themselves. We are not proposing to expand medical assistance in dying beyond the existing parameters,” he told reporters.
“That said, we believe that we also need better health care so that...
April 12, 2025 - 13:11 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
CALGARY — It’s a little less lonely to be a Liberal in Calgary these days.
The line of supporters extends a kilometre outside of the Red and White Club at McMahon Stadium, where Liberal Leader Mark Carney is set to hold a rally. It is taking place in the riding of Calgary Confederation, which Liberals expect
could be a nail-biter this election...
April 12, 2025 - 04:00 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
