Federal Politics

Promise tracker: What the parties are pitching on the campaign trail

OTTAWA - A running list of specific promises announced by the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Green party since the official start of the federal election campaign on Sept. 11. Liberal...

Oct 18, 2019

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg in Edmonton Friday for climate strike

EDMONTON - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is planning to be at the Alberta legislature Friday for a climate strike. Climate Justice Edmonton says the 16-year-old Stockholm student will join acti...

Oct 16, 2019

Final debate behind them, federal leaders begin sprints to Oct. 21 voting day

OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is leaving Ottawa for the West Coast today, though he's saying goodbye with an exceptionally early morning rally at a downtown food court before he departs. With...

Oct 11, 2019

Party leaders dish baloney in French-language debate

OTTAWA - The six federal party leaders used the last televised debate of the campaign Thursday to make their pitches to voters. Along the way, they each made assertions with varying degrees of accurac...

Oct 11, 2019

Northern health agency encouraging more people to roll up their sleeves

The health agency representatives responsible for 33 northern Saskatchewan First Nations communities are hoping for a calmer flu season this year.By the end of November last year, the Northern Inter-T...

Oct 08, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)

From a lot to a little, party leaders dish baloney in English-language debate

OTTAWA - When they weren't talking over each other or trying to land political body blows, the six federal leaders who squared off in an English-language debate Monday night each made statements with ...

Oct 08, 2019

Six leaders square off in English-language election debate

OTTAWA - The Latest on the English-language leaders' debate with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Green party Leader Elizabeth May, Bloc Queb...

Oct 07, 2019

Scheer, Trudeau trade barbs ahead of debate, amid Ontario education unrest

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer called his Liberal rival Justin Trudeau "disgusting" Monday morning for trying to score political points on the backs of Ontario students. Trudeau fired back...

Oct 07, 2019

Leaders descend on national capital in anticipation of Monday's televised debate

TORONTO - Most of the federal party leaders are hitting the books today, cramming for Monday's critical English-language leaders debate like high schoolers before an ...

Oct 06, 2019 (File photo/The Canadian Press)

Singh fields questions in Saskatoon West town hall

Downtown Saskatoon was flooded with enthusiastic New Democratic Party (NDP) supporters on Friday morning.Party leader Jagmeet Singh took questions at the Saskatoon Francophone Federation's Le Relais C...

Oct 05, 2019 Jagmeet Singh with NDP Supporters at Le Relais rental hall on October 4, 2019 (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)