Federal Politics

Grits, Tories start election campaign in dead heat, NDP, Greens tied: Poll

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau's Liberals and Andrew Scheer's Conservatives were running neck-and-neck during warm-up laps for the start of the 40-day federal election campaign, a new poll suggests...

Sep 11, 2019

Vote to be held October 21

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to call the next federal election Wednesday morning. He's to visit Rideau Hall at 10 a.m. local time to ask Gov. Gen. Julie Payette to dissolve Parliament. By...

Sep 10, 2019 Canadian Press photo

Trudeau to call election Wednesday with morning visit to Rideau Hall

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to call the next federal election Wednesday morning. He's to visit Rideau Hall at 10 a.m. local time to ask Gov. Gen. Julie Payette to dissolve Parliament. By...

Sep 10, 2019

Federal candidates talk guns

Medicine Hat, AB - With the federal election call just days away, what local issues will be front and centre has yet to be determined.One issue which has been a live one in the past has been gun laws....

Sep 09, 2019 Photo courtesy Alex McCuaig - Trap Club member Harold Schwandt shoots clays on Saturday Sept. 7, 2019.

AFN outlines First Nations election priorities ahead of fall vote

OTTAWA - Canada has been treating Indigenous issues as higher priorities since the last federal election but more work needs to be done, says Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde. The...

Sep 09, 2019

Federal Court of Appeal to rule on letting pipeline challenges proceed

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal is to reveal today whether a new set of legal challenges to the Trans Mountain pipeline project can proceed. The federal government has twice approved a plan ...

Sep 04, 2019

Federal election materials being shipped across country to prepare for campaign

OTTAWA - Canada's chief electoral officer says Elections Canada will be ready for the fall federal campaign, whenever it is called. The election date is set for Oct. 21, but the campaign could be...

Aug 29, 2019

Liberals, Tories unveil campaign slogans and contrasting pitches to voters

OTTAWA - Canadians will be asked this fall to choose between moving forward with the Liberals or getting ahead with the Conservatives. But while they both seem to be urging vo...

Aug 26, 2019

Canadian government invests $4.2 million into Southern Alberta’s rail infrastructure

Medicine Hat, AB - The federal government has made a significant infrastructure investment in Southern Alberta.Minister of Natural Resources Canada announced the federal government will invest $4.2 mi...

Aug 26, 2019 The Fort Mile Rail line (Photo: Forty Mile Rail Inc. at 40mr.ca)

Scheer, Harper among politicians at memorial for Calgary MP Deepak Obhrai

CALGARY - Some prominent Conservative politicians are paying their respects at a memorial for former Calgary member of Parliament Deepak Obhrai. Obhrai, who was 69, died earlier this month&n...

Aug 26, 2019