WHITBY, ONT. — On this week’s Ivison video , regular guest Eugene Lang referred to “the trifecta — or what Van Morrison would call The Great Deception.”. Lang, an experienced Liberal operative, was talking about the tendency of governments to promise to simultaneously reduce taxes, increase spending and balance budgets.

2 days ago · When I traveled around Canada during the 2021 election campaign, the prevailing mood among voters I spoke with was one of ennui. Even some of those involved in many of the campaigns weren’t obviously excited about the election.

1 day ago · TORONTO — On a bright early spring evening, a queue of Canadian rallygoers snaked through a hotel lobby and around the block. Some had waited in the cold for an hour. Cars jammed roads and parking lots. So many people had shown up that the venue could not accommodate them all. Inside the hotel ...

2 days ago · OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh took a deep breath. Hours before, Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister and Singh’s former governing ally, had rocked the country by announcing his intention to resign. With a crucial election now on the horizon, it was the NDP’s last chance to distance itself from ...

2 days ago · Over the 40 years he spent in elected politics, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has seen it all. Yet, the 91-year-old career politician admits the current federal election is unique among the many he’s observed in his lifetime.

3 days ago · Thirty-seven years ago, inside a television studio in Ottawa, John Turner thrust an index finger at Brian Mulroney and warned that with one stroke of a pen Mulroney had reversed 120 years of national development and thrown Canada …

3 days ago · More than a quarter of Canadians have been exposed to fake political content on social media that is “more sophisticated and more politically polarizing” as the country prepares to vote in a federal election, researchers have found, warning that platforms must increase protections amid a “dramatic acceleration” of online disinformation in the final weeks of …

5 days ago · Why some voters are sticking with Singh and the NDP and why others are voting Liberal despite being open to voting NDP. Something significant has happened to the NDP vote in this federal election. A party that, for much of the past two years, consistently held between 18% and 20% support now finds ...

4 days ago · Some voters have not locked in their choice and may hold the keys to who governs Canada after election day. A new Angus Reid Institute (ARI) poll finds 37% of Liberal supporters are less than “very committed” to casting a ballot for …

Apr 13, 2025 · Finally, some good news for Canada’s Conservative party. For the first time since the federal election was announced, a poll last week showed them in the lead, and polls over the weekend show them closing in on the Liberal party. They’re not where they were, but it’s progress. In early January ...