politics

Former U.S. president Barack Obama made a point of highlighting his admiration for Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, saying the prime minister's approach to politics is close to his own.

A chorus of protests greeted Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government as it reconvened Ontario's legislature on Monday after a nearly five-month break in which Ford kept out of the public eye in an attempt to put some distance between sharp criticism of his provincial government and the platform of his federal Conservative counterpart Andrew Scheer.

Former Nova Scotia premier John Buchanan, who led the province from 1978 to 1990, has died at the age of 88.

Every core tenet of the Alberta premier's paranoid policy is flatly and demonstrably false.

A group with roots in the oil and gas industry is encouraging women to talk about politics this fall, even if they hold widely different views.

Samantha Reusch is aiming to help young Canadians identify misinformation online because she and her colleagues can't monitor all social media platforms for false information during this fall's campaign.

Caro Loutfi is busy at her Montreal office preparing ways to get young voters to cast a ballot in this fall's federal election.

Anyone who wants to buy political ads on Facebook in the lead-up to the federal election will have to be approved by the company, but unpaid content that simply blurs lines —like a recent doctored video of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — will still be permitted on the social-media site.

Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott's decision to run as Independents and shake up the notion of traditional party politics in Canada's parliamentary system has raised concern from political experts across the country. All agree that there is too much power in the party structure of federal politics, but the question is, how do you change a centuries old political system effectively?

A tweeted photo from newly-minted Alberta Premier Jason Kenney unlocks a wealth of stories about ‘preordained’ power, going back decades and involving countless political giants such as Laurier, Diefenbaker, JFK, Clinton and the Trudeaus.

While the federal government focuses on what they say is the big threat facing the 2019 election — foreign influence in politics — the real threat is domestic, writes Nora Loreto.

Barack Obama says there is a danger in the United States and around the world with politics being driven by passions disconnected from facts.

Hereditary Chief Ian Campbell of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) officially announced he will run for mayor of Vancouver with Vision Vancouver. If successful, he would be the first Indigenous mayor in Vancouver.

Fresh off uniting Alberta's feuding, floundering centre-right to forge a unified opposition, Jason Kenney begins work in 2018 to build on those gains ahead of a provincial election.

There's more at stake than being 'wrong' when you publish a story containing false information about a marginalized or vulnerable community, writes Montreal columnist and former news director Toula Drimonis.