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The Conservative Party has republished the English-language version of its platform after what it says was a "publishing oversight" resulted in the omission of a previous commitment to crack down on "woke ideology" in the public service and federal funding for university research.
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There is an "anything you can do, I can do better" vibe to the defence policies of both the Liberals and the Conservatives, but a trio of national security and military experts say each of the parties are missing — or avoiding — the fundamental national security issue at stake in this election.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pitched First Nations leaders with what he called practical solutions to create economic prosperity on Tuesday, but he reiterated concerns around the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its potential impact on resource development.
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Kiva-Marie Belt and their wife have made their home in Canada, but have seen anti-transgender sentiment on the rise in the U.S. spilling over to this country. That's why acceptance and inclusion of transgender people will be guiding their vote in the federal election.
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The Conservatives are using the final week of the election campaign to run advertisements where older men are telling other older men to vote for the party — a closing argument that would have been unthinkable only months ago, political advertising experts say.
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The attempt to claim Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau are cut from the same political cloth has been a significant feature of the Conservative campaign. But it also raises questions of just how fair such comparisons are, and if they've been an effective attack against the Liberal leader.
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Elections Canada says one of its employees will no longer be working at any polling stations while it investigates allegations they were attempting to influence voters to cast their ballot for the Conservatives at an advanced polling station in Vaughan last weekend.
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Pierre Poilievre is an ideological conservative who believes there is an inherent value in lower taxes and lower public spending. The campaign platform he tabled on Tuesday broadly hews to those principles. But at least some of the debate now will involve the Conservative Party's math.
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Liberal Party pledges to make an access to abortion fund permanent and spend up to $20,000 for IVF treatment are being welcomed by some reproductive health advocates. But they also caution that more details need to be released, particularly on how such initiatives will be funded.
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The head of Canada's Leaders' Debates Commission said he "wasn't aware" that organizations linked to Rebel News had registered as a third-party advocacy group with Elections Canada before allowing its employees to take part in the post-debate news conferences.
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The result of a modern debate is always something of a blur. But what this year's encounters underlined is that this election is primarily about both two very different candidates for prime minister and two very different ideas of what the greatest threat to the country actually is.
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The number of cross-border travellers going from Canada to the U.S. dropped by nearly 900,000 in March compared to the same month last year, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data — easily one of the worst year-over-year drops recorded outside of the COVID-19 health crisis.
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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.
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In early March, Mike de Jong was "informally advised" that he had been rejected as the Conservative candidate for the newly created riding of Abbotsford-South Langley. The party instead chose to run Sukhman Gill, a 25-year-old Langley blueberry farmer, and de Jong announced he would be running as an Independent.
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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...
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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.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took aim at his Liberal opponent Thursday over his handling of the American relationship saying Mark Carney has so far "failed" to secure any U.S. tariff relief for Canada, even as other countries get something of a break.
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Conservatives have placed strict controls on media access to Pierre Poilievre during this campaign. But some political analysts question whether this strategy, that may have been helpful when Justin Trudeau was his expected political opponent, still provides Poilievre with a political advantage.
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As the Liberals and Conservatives pledge to get more energy projects off the ground faster, and polling shows climate change worries are slipping down the list of Canadians' priorities, one Green Party incumbent MP rejects the idea that his team is in trouble.
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Pete Hoekstra, a former ambassador to the Netherlands, to be ambassador to Canada, a position he assumes as traditional close ties have been strained by President Donald Trump's tariff policy and comments about annexation.
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