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Redford steps down as Alberta premier amid crisis for governing PCs
Despite the last-minute surge in support for the Progressive Conservative Party that led premier Alison Redford to an improbable landslide victory in April 2012, her resignation as premier this week...
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Mulcair loses chance to solidify NDP gains in Québec
What were Québec’s voters looking for in its provincial election? Obviously not the hard-core separatist agenda that premier Pauline Marois did such a poor job of concealing from voters. As soon as a...
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Ontario election too close to call with 48 hours left to go
Just two months after Québec’s extraordinary election, which devastated the sovereigntist Parti québécois (PQ) and replaced the minority government of Pauline Marois with a federalist majority...
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Péladeau continues march to PQ leadership
Barring any surprises, Pierre Karl Péladeau, a successful businessman in the Québéc media space who entered politics for the first time last year, will become the new leader of the separatist Parti...
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Alberta election results: Conservatives lose 44-year hold on power
For the first time since 1935, Albertans will have a government that is led neither by the Progressive Conservative Party or by its socially conservative and agrarian predecessor, Social Credit — and...
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Péladeau could be last shot for Québec independence movement
It wasn’t a surprise that Pierre-Karl Péladeau won the leadership of the Parti québécois (PQ) last weekend. Péladeau, the former CEO of Quebecor, the province’s leading media corporation, took the...
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NDP rises to lead as Canadian election approaches
In the United States, self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’ Bernie Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont running for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, has hit his stride...
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Will Canada have a recession election?
Stephen Harper has a timing problem. Last week, Canadian officials announced that GDP contracted by 0.2% in May, the fifth consecutive decline in the country’s economic growth. If on September 1,...
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In Depth: Canada’s general election
With prime minister Stephen Harper’s decision to call an election last week, Canada has now launched into a 13-week campaign that ends on October 19, when voters will elect all 338 members of the...
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Canada’s dysfunctional Senate becomes top campaign issue
You might think it’s hard to imagine any legislative chamber more dysfunctional than the US Senate, with its arcane rules, political polarization and virtual requirement that all legislation survive...
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Bloc Quebecois faces existential crisis in October election
For nearly two decades, the most dominant force in Québec politics was the Bloc québécois, a sidecar vehicle to the province-level Parti québéecois that has fought, more or less, for the...
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The big winner from FOMC’s decision on interest rates? Daniel Scioli
Beleaguered emerging markets across the globe breathed a sigh of relief Thursday afternoon when the chair of the US Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, explained that the Federal Open Markets Committee...
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Liberals gain ground after Trudeau’s leftward shift
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau campaigns in February with former prime minister Jean Chrétien. (Facebook) Traditionally, the Liberal Party of Canada occupied the great center (and center-left) space of...
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Suffragio’s live-blog of Canada’s French-language leaders debate
Earlier this evening, I live-blogged the third debate among Canada’s major party leaders. It was the first French-language debate and the only one (so far) to include all five leaders: Conservative...
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How the hope of Canada’s first NDP government dissolved
After next week’s election, polls show that Thomas Mulcair will not only fall short of becoming prime minister; he may no longer be the official opposition leader. (Facebook) After leading the polls in...
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In Canada’s election, Keystone’s not the only controversial pipeline
In a debate on foreign policy late last month, each of Canada’s would-be prime ministers parried over the Obama administration’s long-delayed decision not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Both of...
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Why a Liberal-NDP coalition in Canada feels inevitable
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau partipicate in a March 2014 forum. (Jean Levac / Ottawa Citizen) Roughly speaking, there are three plausible outcomes from tonight’s Canadian...
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A region-by-region guide to Canada’s election
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who declined to run for reelection last year, showed up at an Etobicoke rally for prime minister Stephen Harper last week. (CBC) One of the reasons why it’s so hard to...
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Live-blogging Canada’s election results
Will Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party win a majority government or a minority government? Will prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives emerge with the largest number of seats? How far could...
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Nine things to watch as Canada’s next Trudeau era begins
Defying expectations in August that pitted the Liberal Party in third place at the beginning of the election campaign in August, Justin Trudeau has now won a clear majority government and a mandate...
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