Category Archives: CP Election

O'Toole pledges plan to implement all truth and reconciliation calls to action
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he will develop an action plan to tackle all the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Conservative party's platform commits ...
Aug 23, 2021

Leaders in central, eastern Canada as campaign enters second full week
OTTAWA - The main federal party leaders are in central and eastern Canada as the election campaign enters its second full week. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau remains on the East Coast today, making an...
Aug 23, 2021

Trudeau hits Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador on Day 2 of East Coast swing
HALIFAX - Justin Trudeau is hitting two more Atlantic provinces today as part of a swing through the region where he will harp on the health of Canadians. Trudeau is scheduled to make a heath-care ann...
Aug 23, 2021

Local leaders ask parties for pledges to protect, expand rental housing
OTTAWA - Canada's municipal leaders are asking federal parties to not only build new affordable rental units, but pledge to protect ones on the verge of disappearing. As an election campaign plays out...
Aug 23, 2021

O'Toole would allow safe injection sites, but stops short of decriminalization
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A Conservative government would continue to allow supervised consumption sites even as it would shift away from harm reduction and toward recovery, federal party leader Erin O'...
Aug 22, 2021

Trudeau heads east to Atlantic Canada to start second week of federal campaign
MIRAMICHI, N.B. - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has touched down on the East Coast, trying to shore up support for his party after losing seats in the last election two years ago. The Liberals swept t...
Aug 22, 2021

Leaders fan out across the country for seventh day of federal election campaign
TORONTO - The main party leaders are fanned out across the country as the federal election campaign enters its seventh day. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is on the East Coast, with stops scheduled in ...
Aug 22, 2021

Erin O'Toole says he backs safe injection sites, but recovery is key to opioid crisis
VANCOUVER - Federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole announced Sunday he will approach Canada's opioid epidemic as an "urgent health crisis" rather than a criminal scourge, and that he would continue ...
Aug 22, 2021

NDP Leader Singh says election timing may have impeded Afghanistan response
TORONTO - The timing of the current federal election may have impeded a prompt and adequate Canadian response to the crisis in Afghanistan, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Sunday as he paid tribute to a...
Aug 22, 2021

Battle for Quebec could be a Liberal-Bloc showdown, but surprises always possible
MONTREAL - The battle for votes in Quebec is shaping up to be a showdown between the Liberals and the Bloc Qubcois, experts say, but history has shown the province's voters are regularly capable of de...
Aug 22, 2021