Liberal Leader Susan Holt has made political history in New Brunswick, becoming the province’s first woman premier while delivering a devastating blow to Blaine Higgs and the Progressive Conservatives. Holt’s Liberals have won a majority government after a 33-day campaign that was considered a tight race between her and Higgs. With all votes counted, the
New Brunswick Progressive Conservative leader Blaine Higgs will no longer be the representative for Quispamsis. Higgs, who was seeking a third government as premier, has lost his riding to Liberal Aaron Kennedy — a trend mirroring the ultimate result: a Liberal majority with Susan Holt becoming the province’s first female premier, preliminary results from Monday’s
By Chuck Chiang The Canadian Press Posted October 20, 2024 9:50 am Updated October 20, 2024 9:57 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The outcome of British Columbia’s election was unclear after a close race between the NDP and the B.C. Conservatives, with the Greens poised to play a role
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is “absolutely confident” the majority of Liberal MPs still support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader. Her comments at a press conference in Winnipeg Friday came ahead of what promises to be a tense meeting of the Liberal caucus in Ottawa next week as a growing number of
The hopes of an anxious Liberal caucus were first raised at the end of the summer of 2022 in the resort town of St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick. Liberals had gathered that August for the first in-person retreat after the pandemic to confront a series of polls that found them trailing the leaderless Conservatives by a
The government has been unable to put any of its own business before the House of Commons for a full week, and the Conservatives on Thursday said that’s the result of Liberal “corruption.” Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer said the governing party would rather see the House bogged down in debate than produce documents related
A former Canadian politician is suspected of trying to influence Parliament’s work on behalf of a foreign government, according to documents released by the foreign interference commission Friday. No identifying information about the parliamentarian — whether they were a senator or MP, or what party they belonged to — was included in the documents, nor
The Quebec government has clarified that anglophones have the right to receive health and social services in English in a new directive meant to allay concerns the province was trying to restrict access to health care in languages other than French. The five-page document, published Monday, states that recent changes to Quebec’s Charter of the
Republican activists in swing states say they have seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump, raising concerns about the party’s presidential nominee relying on outside groups for an important part of his campaign operations. Trump and the Republican National Committee he controls opted to
WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 5 percentage points in an NBC News poll released on Sunday that found that respondents have come to see her more favoruably since she emerged as the Democratic candidate for president. Asked about their views of Harris since she