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Charges laid against two BC Liberal campaign workers, but not Kash Heed
The second special prosecutor to investigate Kash Heed's 2009 election campaign in Vancouver-Fraserview has approved charges against two campaign workers, but not against Heed. Read more…
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Pick Horgan second, Larsen tells supporters
Pro-cannabis activist Dana Larsen is staying in the race to lead the British Columbia New Democratic Party, but says his supporters should pick Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan second. Read more…
Layton's NDP sees job losses where StatsCan does not
The federal New Democratic Party says Statistics Canada's employment figures show job losses, even though that's not the agency's own interpretation. Read more…
Simons quits NDP leadership race, backs Horgan
Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons is withdrawing from the race to lead the British Columbia New Democratic Support and giving his support to Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan. Read more…
U.S. mayors want 'dirty' oil discussion in Canadian election campaign
OTTAWA - They don't want our "dirty" oil — and they want to kill the Canadian-built pipeline that would pump it across their fertile plains. An outspoken coalition of American mayors is urging Canadian voters to grill federal election candidates on clean-energy alternatives to Alberta's oilsands. They oppose a plan that would see Alberta's "tar sands" oil pumped across their country to the Texas Gulf Coast through the $13-billion Keystone XL pipeline. Read more…
The Twitter campaign: what it means so far
Twitter may have existed during 2008's campaign -- the little birdie just turned five -- but it was nowhere near as ubiquitous as it is now. Indeed, as Kathleen Petty quips in the most recent edition of CBC's The House, "The campaign wasn't even underway when people started referring to it as the Twitter campaign." Read more…
Harper finally says sorry for people being booted from Conservative events
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper finally said sorry today as he attempts to put controversy behind him and get his campaign message back on track. The prime minister apologized for people being booted from Conservative campaign events on suspicion they supported rival parties or groups. Read more…
Parties set to debate agriculture April 11 in Ottawa
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Gerry Ritz and opposition party members will take part in a national leaders debate on agriculture, hosted by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.
The NDP will be the only opposition party not represented by its agriculture critic. MP Alex Atamanenko will skip the trip to the capital to focus on the tight race in his Southern Interior riding instead. Read more…
Fraudster in the PMO? Ho hum, say Canadians
Are Canadians paying attention to the campaigns and the election news as it breaks? In the past days the headlines have been full of reports that Stephen Harper hired a close advisor with five fraud convictions -- and the PM's defence is he didn't know it was quite that many. In election-time newsroom-speak that's generally called a bombshell. The Canadian public is apparently unmoved, according to the latest CTV News/Globe/Nanos poll, completed Apr. 5th. Read more…
Critics say Tory ad stolen from US Tea Party
A recent Conservative TV ad, full of jet planes and Rocky Mountain vistas, may have been plagiarized from an ad supporting American Tea Party politician Tim Pawlenty. Read more…
Harper 'bubble' tour ignites attacks, charges of 'un-Canadian' behaviour
OTTAWA - A sophisticated Conservative effort to cyber-scour the backgrounds of anyone attending Stephen Harper's rallies triggered pointed exchanges Tuesday about "un-Canadian" campaign tactics. Read more…
HST causes contortions for Conservative candidates in BC
The Harmonized Sales Tax that caused a citizen's revolt and drove thrice-elected Premier Gordon Campbell to step down emanated from Stephen Harper's Conservative government. But a pair of Conservative candidates running in B.C. this election have danced around defending the tax. Read more…
Ignatieff launches Liberal platform live online
Beginning at 8:00 a.m. PDT on Sunday, Michael Ignatieff went online to launch the Liberal Party's platform for the 2011 election. Read more…
Bob Rae: Tory "human smuggling" ad crosses the line
Liberal MP Bob Rae today attacked a Conservative Party ad on human smuggling, saying it "crosses the line." Read more…
NDP leadership contenders differ on corporate tax cuts
While candidates vying to lead the British Columbia NDP agree on much, they part ways on the question of whether or not to roll back corporate tax cuts. Read more…
Cummins interest shows BC Conservatives are serious: Farnworth
NDP leadership candidates cautiously welcomed former member of parliament John Cummins' announcement that he hopes to lead the BC Conservative Party. Read more…
Laurier Institute tracks election interactively
The Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP) is running a website tracking the 2011 federal election day by day on an interactive map. Read more…
Former NDP candidate predicts Harper majority
A former New Democratic Party candidate and economist says Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives will likely win a majority in the May 2 federal election.
"It's not something I want to see," said Paul Summerville, who ran for the NDP in Ontario in 2006. Read more…
Harper government topples on contempt motion, triggering May election
OTTAWA - The federal Conservative government has been brought down on a historic vote in Parliament, setting the stage for a May election. MPs voted 156-145 in favour of a Liberal motion today citing Stephen Harper's minority Tories for contempt of Parliament and expressing non-confidence in the government. Harper is set to visit the Governor General's residence Saturday morning to dissolve the 40th Parliament and sound the starting gun on an election campaign. It will be the fourth election in seven years. The contempt charge marks a first for a national government anywhere in the Commonwealth. Read more…
Raise a win for minimum wage campaigners: BC Fed
B.C. Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair said the minimum wage hike is a win for everyone who "stood out in the rain" to campaign for an increase. Read more…
