Federal Election 2019 Archive

Here’s a vignette from late September: Sharon Batch, carefully balancing two food platters — one veggie, the other cheese and sausage — slides through the back door to the Sayward rec centre.

Update from The Canadian Press: A record number of Canadians took part in advance polls during the four days of early voting that closed Monday night. Elections Canada said 4.

A quick primer on the four major parties' positions in the 2019 federal election

A tableful of well-experienced women are in Qualicum Bay’s Sandbar Cafe, enjoying each other’s company, solving the world over coffee on a rainy day. “They’re talking about a passport you can renew for 20 years,” remarks one.

The federal election is just under two weeks away (Oct. 21), but if you don’t want to wait that long, there are three ways to vote in advance. Vote on advance polling days Advance polling got underway Friday.

MONTREAL — Voters will see a smiling Yves-Francois Blanchet on campaign posters throughout Quebec during the federal election campaign that got underway Wednesday.

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 ideologue, he’d take it as a compliment.

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.

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 New Democrats.

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