Grits and Tories tied nationally as 905 leans Conservative

In a national race that many pollsters say is too close to call, the final battle could come down to who wins in key regions of the country. The...

TOWHEY: Affordability is the ballot box question

The ballot box question in this federal election boils down to this: Which government can I afford? There’s been a lot of talk, a lot of promises,...

BRADFORD: Transit planning needs to put people before politics

Accepting this week’s agreement with the province is the city’s only option for building transit now. Many commentators will be fixated on...

LILLEY: Trudeau flirts with coalition while avoiding the word

Justin Trudeau sounds like the guy who doesn’t want you to know he’s dating someone new. The Liberal leader has been coy when asked about a...

WUDRICK: A minority government could be an expensive proposition

As Canadians prepare to head the ballot box on Monday, most opinion polls suggest a tight race between Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Andrew...

KINSELLA: Why Trudeau's popularity is plummeting

Justin Trudeau is less popular than Donald Trump. Say it aloud, so that those still considering voting for Trudeau can hear you. Because, you know,...

AGAR: Adam Vaughan goes off the rails with transit talk

With so few days before Monday’s election have the Liberals lost control of the message or is it just Adam Vaughan? The incumbent Liberal MP for...

HASSAN: Getting a government that reflects the pulse of the nation

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh insists he doesn’t believe in strategic voting and neither should you. He has been calling upon supporters not to “settle...

HUDAK: Time to get dirty money out of Canadian housing market

Keeping the Canadian dream of home ownership within reach has become a key issue in the 2019 federal election and rightly so. Home ownership rates...

GOLDSTEIN: City librarian Vickery Bowles defends free speech

I don’t like Black Lives Matter. I think they’re divisive and hateful. I don’t like that they’ve been allowed to speak in Toronto’s public...

BONOKOSKI: Worst political sandbox doesn't belong to Conservatives

Who pissed in the Conservatives’ sandbox so badly that no one wants to play with them? That’s the real ballot question. There are no certifiable...

LILLEY: Scheer set to win most seats, according to polls

There is a real and pressing reason that Andrew Scheer is pushing on the idea that the party winning the most seats gets to form government. There...

OLIVER: Justin Trudeau has lost his legitimacy to govern

Justin Trudeau had remarkable staying power in the face of all the policy failures, broken promises and personal misconduct. However, his tarnished...

FEDELI: Open for business is about taking action

When our government talks about being open for business and open for jobs, it’s not a slogan. It’s a philosophy that runs to the heart of a...

BONOKOSKI: Who votes, who doesn't and some of the reasons why

Voter turnout in the 2015 election, which gave us the Pied Piper of Justin Trudeau leading the Liberals as if spellbound children, was the highest...

PICKEL: Unions unfairly paint Ford as bogeyman in education funding fiasco

Well-funded union advertising campaigns have convinced many Ontarians that Premier Doug Ford is making cuts to education that are hurting our kids....

FATAH: Trump betrays Kurds, Liberals and NDP stay silent

To understand the betrayal of Syria’s Kurds by President Trump, one needs to have a grasp of the decision makers who today control the affairs of...

LILLEY: Trudeau attacks Kenney, Ford while wooing Quebec voters

Justin Trudeau claims to be a champion of national unity but you wouldn’t know it as he pits one province against another. On Wednesday, the...

GOLDSTEIN: Obama the hypocrite endorses Trudeau

If former U.S. president Barack Obama is such a big fan of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — as he indicated Wednesday in a tweet to his 109...

MULCAIR: Broken promises will cost Trudeau votes

The last time the polls were too close to call just days out from an election was in 2004. It was Stephen Harper’s first try as the head of the...

KINSELLA: Why I can't vote Liberal on Oct. 21

I was Jean Chretien’s special assistant. I helped oversee his war room when he won in 1993 and 2000. I ran for the Liberals in B.C. in 1997. And I...

FUREY FACTOR: An Anti-Conservative coalition- yay or nay?

GUNTER: It looks like 'screw the west' is back in full swing

It’s 1980 all over again. In the federal election that year (the election that returned Pierre Trudeau to power after Joe Clark’s brief...

LILLEY: Trudeau gives Quebec a pass in a way he never would for Alberta or ...

Imagine what the reaction would be from Justin Trudeau if a provincial government, other than the Government of Quebec, announced that they would...