Tag: Election 2021
over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Justin Trudeau may have needed a holiday, but he chose the wrong day to take it

It was simply a bad idea for the prime minister to mix vacation plans with a day his own government created to show r...

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Opinion | Annamie Paul was tormented out of politics. Here’s how Justin Trudeau could send a diff...

Inviting Annamie Paul to climate change talks in Glasgow would be a smart move for Justin Trudeau. It would also be t...

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Opinion | Stop your sneering, America, Canadians have had enough of you

Americans see Canada and think maple syrup and all that does is confirm that they view the world as cartoons and clic...

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Opinion | Liberals used an old trick to turn the election around in the campaign’s final days: Th...

Online campaigning is here to stay, but how parties use the digital realm is what distinguishes a winning campaign fr...

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Opinion | Ontario’s vanishing premier has reappeared. Now Doug Ford needs to make up for lost time

Ontario is finally moving forward with vaccination certification. As Tories turn inwards federally, time for Premier ...

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Defeated and embattled, Erin O’Toole faces tough fight to save his leadership, Conservative insid...

The near-unanimous consensus of Conservative insiders who spoke to the Star on Tuesday is that the Conservative leade...

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After a return to the status quo, where do Trudeau’s Liberals go from here?

As a new day dawned for a Liberal government returning to Parliament without a majority, what do Monday night’s elect...

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over 2 years ago
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In case you missed it, here’s what the federal leaders said in their victory and concession speeches

After a brief but intense campaign, leaders found themselves trying to put the best possible spin on results that lar...

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over 2 years ago
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Erin O'Toole's fight to remain Conservative leader has begun

A source close to the Conservative campaign told the Star O’Toole will encourage the caucus to adopt Reform Act measu...

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over 2 years ago
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Justin Trudeau hangs on

Canadian voters handed Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau a third term in government in an outcome that nearly mirrored th...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Sick of this election campaign? Get ready, another one’s about to ramp up

Ontario’s pre-election race now picks up where it left off, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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over 2 years ago
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O’Toole’s campaign chair says holding Trudeau to a minority would be a win for the Conservatives

The Erin O’Toole campaign would consider it a win if they can hold the Liberals to a minority government in today’s f...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Justin Trudeau, Erin O’Toole and Jagmeet Singh seem to have forgotten hard-earned lesso...

Parties have run out of creativity while running pre-COVID playbooks during the 44th federal election, Susan Delacour...

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over 2 years ago
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The pandemic, climate, racism, affordability: Here are the choices on the big issues this election

No federal party has succeeded in setting the narrative of this campaign. But time is up, and voters need to make a d...

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over 2 years ago
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Here’s five things we shouldn’t do next time we have an election

Like the pandemic during which it was held, this will be a campaign noted for the faults it exposed. It may even crea...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Five things to consider if you’re still not sure who to vote for

Throwing up your hands won’t get you very far — it’s not just an abdication of duty but a dereliction of democracy, M...

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over 2 years ago
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Erin O’Toole calls pandemic election “un-Canadian” in final push for votes

Conservative leader goes personal as polls suggest the O’Toole campaign is in trouble in Ontario, calls Trudeau’s ele...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Are you an angry voter? Here’s where you can throw your support

If you think the years ahead will be terrible (the future) or wonderful (the past) then here is how you should vote, ...

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over 2 years ago
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The Star on the trail: reports from the three major campaigns with days left in a tight race

If there’s one thing all party leaders can agree on, it’s this: the 2021 federal election campaign has been nasty, br...

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over 2 years ago
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Battered but unbowed, Justin Trudeau calls on progressive voters to ‘stop Erin O’Toole’

Justin Trudeau called a snap election nearly five short weeks ago, gambling Canadians would put aside the awkward tim...

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over 2 years ago
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Insiders think a Conservative victory is a long shot. Is Erin O’Toole’s leadership in danger, too?

With an election victory appearing unlikely in Monday’s vote, some close to the O’Toole campaign are focusing on salv...

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over 2 years ago
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Insiders fear Conservatives are losing the election as party makes a last-minute appeal for help

Erin O’Toole’s campaign appeals for more boots on the ground as the federal election heads into crucial weekend for m...

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over 2 years ago
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Liberals ask Toronto candidate charged with sexual assault in 2019 to ‘pause’ campaign

The Crown dropped the charge against Kevin Vuong after determining “it would not be in the public interest to proceed...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | For Justin Trudeau, child care is still a priority. For voters? Not so much

The question today is whether voters will care enough about child care to make it the ballot question on Sept. 20 — a...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Angry with Erin O’Toole? Disappointed in Justin Trudeau? Hard feelings will shape next ...

Elections come and go, but bad moods like this can linger, Susan Delacourt writes.

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over 2 years ago
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Top Liberal is ‘very confident’ in chances of winning a majority

Dominic LeBlanc, the New Brunswick Liberal candidate and Justin Trudeau’s intergovernmental affairs minister, said ou...

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over 2 years ago
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In her new book, Canada's 'Indian in the cabinet' has harsh words for Justin Trudeau

Jody Wilson-Raybould’s book may not swing an election, but it is giving new fuel on the campaign trail to Justin Trud...

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over 2 years ago
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Far-right and white nationalist groups urge followers to support Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party ...

Like the Reform Party in the early 90s, white nationalist groups see Maxime Bernier’s party as a vehicle to oppose im...

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over 2 years ago
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Election campaign reveals Canada’s dirty little secret

The dirty little secret of foreign affairs is that for most Canadians, it remains a domestic affair, Martin Regg Cohn...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Justin Trudeau is betting you want more change. Erin O’Toole is sure you don’t

One week from now, Canadians should know whether they’ve had an election about change or stability, Susan Delacourt w...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Justin Trudeau’s got my vote to get us through Mu

When it comes to deciding who gets my vote, it all comes downs to Mu, Heather Mallick writes.

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Justin Trudeau bets he can win big in Ontario without beating on Doug Ford

The premier served as a political punching bag in the last federal campaign, but now the perfect foil is no more, Mar...

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Is Erin O'Toole a 'progressive'? Not when it matters, Justin Trudeau says

Erin O’Toole is making an aggressive pitch for centrist voters, but Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says his rival is n...

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over 2 years ago
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Leaders trade sharp words and pointed criticisms at federal election debate

From the moment the clock started ticking on the first and only English language debate of the federal election campa...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Why did Justin Trudeau call this election? There’s a question he must be asking himself...

If this is a nation grumpy about the pandemic and the mere fact of an election while COVID-19 still rages, the mood o...

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over 2 years ago
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‘Something wrong is happening.’ Distrust and anger on display at People’s Party protest outside l...

The People’s Party of Canada has objected to the decision to exclude its leader from the two official debates.

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over 2 years ago
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Leaders clash over character and credibility in French-language election debate

Pandemic response, health care, climate change, child care and public finances were flashpoints hours after the Conse...

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over 2 years ago
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Conservatives promise more than $51B in new spending over 5 years — and deficits almost as big as...

The Conservatives’ election platform commits the party to $51.28 billion in new spending over the next five years, wh...

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‘We are not the United States’: Justin Trudeau says he won’t be intimidated by violent protests o...

Political leaders headed to the national capital region for the first of two nationally televised debates on Wednesda...

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