Canadian Politics

According to survey data released last week by Pollara, Canadians are evenly split on whether they want this federal election to result in "change" or "stability." The next two weeks might be about what mix of change and stability Canadians want — and who they believe can deliver it.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced a politically groundbreaking promise to become the first prime minister to invoke the notwithstanding clause.

Multiple reports have criticized the RCMP's sprawling mandate, which sees the organization respond to everything from traffic violations to terrorist attacks. Despite the warnings, the main political parties are so far tepid on committing to reforming the Mounties.

Korean Aerospace Industries' KF-21 has the same angled twin tails and similar sleek lines as Lockheed Martin's stealth fighter jet. And if all of the heated campaign rhetoric and trade war posturing is to be believed, Canada may be in the market for something other than the U.S.-manufactured F-35.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defending his former campaign manager’s criticisms of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, telling reporters “sometimes the truth hurts.” 

The Leaders' Debates Commission is defending its decision to invite Green Party co–leader Jonathan Pedneault to this week's debates, even though the party is well short of a full slate of candidates.

In the face of annexation threats from the Trump administration and a Canadian public increasingly demanding the federal government buy less from the United States, the Liberals have resurrected a previous campaign pitch to create a standalone defence procurement agency.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney said Monday it was "totally unacceptable" for some members of the party's war room to plant phoney campaign buttons at a conservative gathering in Ottawa last week and those campaign staffers have been "reassigned" as a result.

Ex-oil engineer Kiran Somanchi says oil and gas launched his career, helped him buy a house and gave him a sense of purpose. That's why it feels personal when politicians condemn the oilpatch and use it as a political tool to score points by blocking pipelines. He wants to vote for a party that sees oil and gas as a platform for nation-building.