Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May are continuing on the campaign trail today, September 21, 2019, while the leaders of the bigger parties take a break from the road.

It won't be campaigning as usual for Justin Trudeau today, September 19, 2019, as a third instance of the Liberal leader wearing skin-darkening makeup has emerged.

An international body that specializes in monitoring elections is skipping this year's Canadian election due to limited resources despite questions and potential concerns about the role of third-party groups, cybersecurity and social media in the campaign.

If the country is serious about race, Canadians would connect the dots and ask hard questions of our top leaders: we would ask when they acknowledged racism, if they understand racism — and if they don't, why they believe they are best suited to help all the communities in this country. 

"I shouldn't have done that. I should have known better, but I didn't, and I'm really sorry," Trudeau said Wednesday about the report that broke in Time magazine.

The Liberals and New Democrats are both making promises that would need some collaboration with the provinces to become reality, at a time when powerful premiers have made it clear they see a relationship with Ottawa that is headed in a very different direction.

Is it better to be paid in credit or with cash?

As the three main political parties continue courting votes from middle-class families, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau surrounded himself with children on Monday, September 16, 2019, and promised help for parents who need more child care before and after regular school hours.

A chance to debate Justin Trudeau and other party leaders onstage during national televised events will undoubtedly bestow upon Maxime Bernier a new level of mainstream Canadian political exposure. 

Green Leader Elizabeth May pushed past the political pack on Monday, September 16, 2019, by introducing a wide-ranging set of new policy promises while her rivals were recycling or expanding on old ideas.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer continued making a pitch to voters via their pocketbooks Sunday with the promise of a new tax cut.

What police were calling an "ambush-style" shooting in the Toronto area that left one teenager dead and five other people injured saw federal party leaders swiftly move to offer condolences on Sunday, September 15, 2019, but little in the way of new ideas to address gun violence in Canada's cities.

Federal party leaders have scattered across the country as the election campaign starts to ramp up in earnest.

A familiar U.S. face finally showed up front and centre on the federal campaign trail on Saturday, September 14, 2019: Donald Trump.

The federal party leaders have spent the first days of the election campaign talking policy, as they'd like, and dismissing and defending candidates over old social-media posts, which they'd rather not.