Oct. 21 Federal Election

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2019 Federal Election

A new game in Ottawa; Elizabeth May staying as Green Party leader

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

Elizabeth May indicated this would be her last federal election as leader of the Green party, but the opportunities of a minority government have her hitting the pause ...

Vancouver Island election results

NDP hold onto Vancouver Island ridings, as Greens fail to wrestle seats away

Victoria: City councillor Laurel Collins off to Ottawa as NDP MP

Saanich-Gulf Islands: Elizabeth May returned with landslide win, and extra Green MP ...

Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke: NDP's Randall Garrison holds off challengers

Cowichan-Malahat-Langford: NDP's Alistair MacGregor enjoys comfortable victory

Nanaimo-Ladysmith: Green Party's Paul Manly goes two-for-two in 2019 elections

Courtenay-Alberni: Popular New Democrat Gord Johns romps to easy victory

North Island-Powell River: Incumbent Rachel Blaney handily earns second term

Vancouver Island election results

NDP hold onto Vancouver Island ridings, as Greens fail to wrestle seats away

Victoria: City councillor Laurel Collins off to Ottawa as NDP MP

Saanich-Gulf Islands: Elizabeth May returned with landslide win, and extra Green MP ...

Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke: NDP's Randall Garrison holds off challengers

Cowichan-Malahat-Langford: NDP's Alistair MacGregor enjoys comfortable victory

Nanaimo-Ladysmith: Green Party's Paul Manly goes two-for-two in 2019 elections

Courtenay-Alberni: Popular New Democrat Gord Johns romps to easy victory

North Island-Powell River: Incumbent Rachel Blaney handily earns second term

Issues and platforms

Promises, promises: What the parties are pledging on the campaign trail

Where the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Greens stand on key issues for B.C.

How green? The political parties’ platforms on climate and environment

What parties are promising to do for veterans

2019 Federal Election

‘More to do’: Liberal Justin Trudeau boasts of triumphs, worries about polarization

Joan Bryden / The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau likes to warm up for an uphill election contest by literally climbing uphill. In the 2015 campaign, as he attempted to vault his third-place party into the lead, the Liberal. . .

2019 Federal Election

Andrew Scheer’s middle-class roots make him ‘perfect foil’ to Trudeau for Tories

Teresa Wright / The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — It was a hot August day in 2003 when Conservative campaign manager Hamish Marshall first learned not to underestimate Andrew Scheer. It was Scheer’s wedding day and Marshall was a guest, . . .

2019 Federal Election

NDP's Jagmeet Singh looks to defy the odds again on the campaign trail

Kristy Kirkup / The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh is no stranger to beating long odds — which is good, since taking over the Prime Minister’s Office this fall seems the unlikeliest of outcomes for the leader of the federal . . .

2019 Federal Election

Green Party’s Elizabeth May eager to sound climate alarm on hustings

Jim Bronskill / The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Elizabeth May was so crushed by her Green Party’s failure to pick up seats in the last federal election she was ready to hand the leadership reins to someone else. May even approached . . .

2019 Federal Election

Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet sheds ‘goon’ image

Catherine Levesque / The Canadian Press

MONTREAL — Voters will see a smiling Yves-Francois Blanchet on campaign posters throughout Quebec during the federal election campaign that got underway Wednesday. But not so long ago, the Bloc . . .

2019 Federal Election

Maxime Bernier targets untapped voters with broader populist platform of People's Party

Andy Blatchford / The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Maxime Bernier insists the populist pillars of his young political party have nothing to do with opportunism and everything to do with ideology. And if someone were to call him an . . .

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Election commentary

Editorial: Expect plenty of backroom jockeying if vote is close

Island Voices: On Oct. 21, vote for climate solutions

Trevor Hancock: A lunatic mainstream, or a sensible fringe?

Geoff Johnson: Getting young people ready for the vote

Iain Hunter: A ballot on Greta's crusade

Les Leyne: Is Trudeau 2.0 following in his father’s footsteps?

Commentary by Justin Trudeau: Fight climate change while growing economy

Commentary by Richard Caron: Use tech, not taxes, to beat climate change

Commentary by Jagmeet Singh: For our children, we must address climate change

Commentary by Elizabeth May: We must end our reliance on fossil fuels

Commentary by Maxime Bernier: Reject global warming alarmism

Island Voices: Federal Liberals sacrificing salmon-farm jobs to win over urban voters