Category Archives: CP Election

Scheer pledges to allow longer mortgages, remove 'stress test' for renewals
VAUGHAN, Ont. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer laid out a plan Monday that he says would make it cheaper for Canadians to buy homes, loosening rules put in place by the former Conservative governme...
Sep 25, 2019

Singh makes first visit as NDP leader to N.B., apologizes for not coming sooner
BATHURST, N.B. - Trying to sell himself as Canada's next prime minister to the people of New Brunswick, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh apologized Monday for the fact he was making first visit to the pr...
Sep 25, 2019

Conservatives highlight home renovation credit as part of climate plan
JONQUIERE, Que. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is highlighting his promise to give Canadians a tax credit to help make their homes more environmentally friendly. The 20 per cent refunda...
Sep 25, 2019

Greens' universal pharmacare proposal costed at $27B next year
HALIFAX - Introducing universal pharmacare would cost $26.7 billion in the first year, the federal Greens said Wednesday as they released a costed platform. The pledge to ensure all Canadians have acc...
Sep 25, 2019

Trudeau promises pharmacare plan, money to kickstart health talks with provinces
HAMILTON - A re-elected Liberal government would introduce a national pharmacare program, Justin Trudeau promised Monday - though he wouldn't say how much it would cost or when it would take...
Sep 25, 2019

Liberals pay extra attention to seat held by Poilievre, the Tories' agitator
GREELY, Ont. - The battle for a semi-rural riding south of Ottawa has all the makings of something personal for the Liberals. Conservative Pierre Poilievre won it in 2015, but not by very much ov...
Sep 25, 2019

Trudeau and Scheer attack Ford and Wynne in battle for bountiful Ontario
OTTAWA - Ontario leaders - old and current - were pinned in the crossfire of Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer's battle Monday for the vote-rich province th...
Sep 25, 2019

Three party leaders campaign in British Columbia, Scheer tours Quebec
OTTAWA - British Columbia is getting attention from three federal party leaders today, including the promise of a "new deal" from the NDP's Jagmeet Singh. Singh has already promised to cede authority ...
Sep 25, 2019

Some facts and figures about the federal riding of St. John's South-Mount Pearl
St. John's South-Mount Pearl Liberal incumbent Seamus O'Regan has bounced back to a high-profile cabinet role but has taken heat back home from the oil and gas sector over Bill C-69, the government's ...
Sep 25, 2019

East Coast vote: Liberals brace for losses in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - At first glance, it would appear Justin Trudeau's Liberals built an electoral fortress in Atlantic Canada in 2015, having won all of the region's 32 ridings. Four years later, with...
Sep 25, 2019