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How many times is Justin Trudeau going to answer the same 5 questions?

You may have heard that Justin Trudeau is being counted on to bring something different to the process of running for Liberal leader. He promised as much himself. Yet when it comes to facing reporters...

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McGuinty left because he had to: Sometimes, it’s that simple

This is not how it typically ends. Which raises this single question: Why? When former Ontario premier Mike Harris saw the writing on the wall and stepped aside in 2002 – it was around this time of...

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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is quitting politics, rules out bid for...

By Joan Bryden OTTAWA – Dalton McGuinty won’t be challenging Justin Trudeau for the federal Liberal leadership. The Ontario premier has decided to look for challenges outside politics altogether. “I...

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Justin Trudeau sticks to his strategic messaging about the ‘middle class’

Justin Trudeau, the likely next prime minister of Canada according to a Forum Research poll commissioned by the National Post, has marked Halloween with an opinion piece published in the Toronto Star:...

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Denis Coderre drops new hints about Montreal city hall ambitions

OTTAWA - Veteran Liberal MP Denis Coderre is strongly hinting about  plans to run for mayor of Montreal in the fall of 2013, but he says he will remain a federal politician until his party elects a new...

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Robocalls suit uses Supreme Court ruling to argue results should be tossed

The legal reasoning the Supreme Court of Canada used in sustaining the disputed election of one Conservative MP should lead  the results in six other Tory-held ridings to be overturned, the lawyer for...

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Ignatieff predicts death of Parliament under party yoke

Former federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is predicting the death of parliament in Western democracies if party leaders don’t loosen the reins on their own members, allowing more free votes and...

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Jitters abound as Liberal leadership race gets set to kick off

OTTAWA — Never officially affiliated with the federal Liberals, Halifax lawyer Derek Simon nevertheless signed up as one of the party’s 30,000 new supporters only a few weeks ago so he could...

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Liberals raising money to arm next leader

OTTAWA — Federal Liberals are out with their virtual hat in hand this month to raise money so their next leader is ready for war. The party officially launched its 5,000 Wishes for Canada on Dec. 1,...

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Pondering Bob Rae’s future

OTTAWA — As snow falls outside the window on a recent December afternoon, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae sits in the Centre Block office he will have to give up in four months and says he still hasn’t...

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Ontario government tramples teachers’ constitutional rights with Bill 115

TORONTO – The big human issues are so often decided in rooms just like this, with a pack of lawyers splitting the fine hairs around a table, and half of them and half of the rest of us in the crowd...

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Senate should take time to focus on issues facing our aging workforce, Sen....

OTTAWA — As Sen. Joyce Fairbairn officially leaves the Senate, the Liberal leader in the upper chamber says there is no problem with the processes or procedures put in place to help senators with...

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Bertschi says he helped Cauchon to ensure strong Liberal leadership race

OTTAWA — Federal Liberal leadership candidate David Bertschi says the reason he helped fellow contender Martin Cauchon get signatures for his nomination forms because he wanted a strong leadership...

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Trudeau expected to be main target as Liberal leadership contenders gather in...

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is expected to be the main target when the federal Liberal party’s nine leadership candidates take to the stage in Vancouver on Sunday for the first of five debates. But anyone...

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Will any Liberal leadership candidates drop out?

VANCOUVER — The first federal Liberal debate hasn’t even started yet, so there’s no reason anyone has given much thought to the question. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be asked anyway: Will any of...

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Ranking the Liberal leadership candidates by social media footprint

VANCOUVER — While 900 Liberals will be in the hall when the party’s nine leadership candidates gather for their first debate today, hundreds if not thousands more will be watching the debate online....

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Liberal leadership contenders dismiss co-operation with NDP

VANCOUVER — Liberal leadership candidates were nearly unanimous Sunday as they dismissed suggestions the third-place party should team up with the NDP to defeat Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in the...

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Video: Federal Liberal leadership candidates talk to the media after their...

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Is Quebec over-represented in the Liberal leadership race?

VANCOUVER — Liberal leadership contender Martin Cauchon has defended the fact fully one-third of those vying for the party’s crown are from Quebec. “A province is never overrepresented in a...

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Liberals ask questions in virtual Question Period, get no answers

OTTAWA — They asked the questions, but nobody answered. Federal Liberals took to Twitter on Friday morning to demand the Conservative government provide answers in a virtual Question Period session....

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