OTTAWA — Conservative MP Gérard Deltell lauded the federal government for finally springing into action with its Building Canada Strong Act after what he called a decade of “inaction” to get big projects built under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Deltell, who is the Conservative critic for intergovernmental affairs and One Canadian Economy, said his party agrees “in principle” with the new legislation put forward.
The statement that NDP Leader Avi Lewis posted on X on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur deserves to be reproduced in its entirety, in order to fully appreciate its malignancy and reckless stupidity.
“Tonight Yom Kippur begins, the most sombre moment of the Jewish calendar,” Mr. Lewis wrote. “It’s a time of atonement – a time to grieve those who have been lost, a time to acknowledge and take responsibility for harms we have caused, individually and collectively. For Jewish people, the personal has always been political and the political always personal. This year I’m reflecting on the fact that we failed to do our part to stop an ongoing genocide committed in our name. There are many other fronts where I have to do the work of repair. But nothing on this scale.”
He’s good for laughs, so I’m against disqualification.
Phil McColeman stopped as he walked out of Pierre Poilievre’s rally on Sunday and said, “No, no, no.” The former Conservative MP was expressing his displeasure at Poilievre appointing a candidate to run in the next election.
They don’t appear to be in any danger of winning an election so let em roll the dice.
Ontarians tuning in to the news have been greeted with stories of politicians blowing taxpayer money on hotels and facing accusations of serious crimes.
Wouldn’t it be great if voters didn’t have to wait every four years to hold them accountable?
Doug Ford really wants everyone to know that when he endorsed Olivia Chow the other day, it wasn’t an endorsement. Ford had his office put out a statement to that effect late Thursday, about 32 hours after he made the original statement.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s sustained surge in the polls is coming predominantly from former Conservatives, according to new figures published by the Angus Reid Institute.
According to a new poll published on Thursday, 13 per cent of respondents who voted Conservative in 2025 would now vote for a Carney-led Liberal party if given the chance
Last week, the federal government announced that it’s extending the gas tax holiday into 2027, which is yet another policy that Prime Minister Mark Carney has borrowed from the Conservative handbook. And it isn’t an isolated case, given that Carney zeroed the consumer carbon tax, cancelled the electric vehicle mandate and is working to expand oil and gas capacity.
The Conservative Party’s big tent has been filled with infighting these past few months.
It may not be obvious to anyone who spent the summer in an actual tent, rather than on social media, but fractures are forming within the coalition cultivated by leader Pierre Poilievre.
Fred DeLorey, the chair of NorthStar Public Affairs and a former top party adviser, said it feels like everyone’s trying to “define what is a Conservative.”
I don’t think Poilievre is the real problem so much as the anointed conservative establishment.
I can’t support a party that fails me on critical issues like Remigration.
Canada needs an AfD and parliament has to be swept clean.
Alberta’s political Achilles heel federally is its electoral predictability. While provincially the state of affairs has been volatile, shifting from Progressive Conservatives to NDP to UCP in the span of a decade, the province has always given a strong majority of its seats to the conservative party of the day federally.
This tendency has led federal parties to take Alberta for granted. The Liberals don’t pay much attention to Alberta because the likelihood of gaining seats there is slim. Conservative parties don’t pay much attention to Alberta because the likelihood of losing seats there is slim.
As most Canadians are aware, Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” the latest in his meme obsessed attempts to wage psychological war on Canadians. The move elicited a range of reactions across Canada, from defiance to bewilderment to laughter at the move.
There’s been a few folks attempting to silence conservative dissent behind a mask of patriotism.
Some like Kenney played a huge role in our current demise.
I get the feeling this is a sign of a pampered class reluctantly realizing that a passing of the torch is occurring whether they like it or not.
Populism scares them as it threatens their cozy sinecures.
The mushy conservatism of the Uniparty is not what we need.
Americans have been trying their hand at Canadian political punditry as relations between our two countries continue to spiral downward, showing frankly no real insights.
But one politician-turned-pundit, U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, may have been on to something when he recently called Pierre Poilievre a “non-entity.”
In remarks made available to Canadian Press last month, Vance referred to the Conservative leader as “this guy Pierre Poilievre or something,” and told the fundraiser audience that he was a non-entity when it came to trade negotiations.
The Liberals, of course, won all three federal byelections on Monday.
Two of these were unremarkable. Vancouver’s North Vancouver-Capilano and Toronto’s Beaches-East York were considered safe Liberal seats. The Liberals won the Vancouver riding by 26 percentage points in the 2025 general election and the Toronto riding by 44 points.
The result? A lot of “Conservative Party” establishment types who haven’t accomplished anything since mid Harper are bitching and complaining about populists and Alt-right MAGA types ruining their afternoon naps.
Goodbye Uniparty.
Pierre Poilievre desperately needs some sort of victory, and the recent round of Canadian by-elections didn’t garner him one. Nobody really expected the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) to make gains in the races, but they could have hoped to remain competitive in the one seat they had held in Quebec. Alas, not only did they lose the seat, but they were trounced. The CPC candidate in Chicoutimi — Le Fjord finished a distant third with under 13% of the vote.
In the other two by-elections, the CPC fared no better.
CBC is offering live coverage.
A test of Carney popularity or voter TDS?
Coletto back on Power & Politics tonight. Same file, now applied to tonight’s ballots
“Every time Trump returns, it seems to help the Liberals politically.” Trump is a top-three issue for 45%, up 7 points in two weeks. All the metrics moved. Approval +4. “It’s the issue that… https://t.co/pjP0Q30Rvz pic.twitter.com/DZZ4Dj2MWg
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 1, 2026
While Mark Carney’s governing Liberal Party maintains a slim majority on Parliament Hill, voters in three ridings across Canada — including Toronto — will make their voices heard at the ballot box in Monday’s byelections.
