Canada Elections Act

The review focused on the unsuccessful campaign of Conservative candidate Kenny Chiu in the riding of Steveston-Richmond East and the party's larger efforts in the Vancouver area.

The Conservative Party of Canada says it made a mistake in failing to give notice of a fundraiser held by disqualified leadership contestant Patrick Brown.

Elections Canada has suggested that venue names should be listed for fundraising events after a political party asked whether it had to disclose the specific location in light of safety concerns. 

The chair of the federal Conservative party's leadership election organizing committee privately expressed concerns around Patrick Brown's history while vetting him as a potential candidate, according to documentation obtained by The Canadian Press.

Patrick Brown wants to appeal a decision made by federal Conservatives overseeing the party's leadership race to disqualify him.

Patrick Brown has been disqualified from the federal Conservative leadership race, after ballots have already begun to be mailed out, and his campaign is fighting back against what it calls anonymous allegations.

Almost 100,000 mail-in ballots were not counted in the federal election, most because they arrived after the deadline, a report by Elections Canada has revealed.

Stéphane Perrault has suggested creating a new offence of making false statements to undermine an election — for example, claiming that the results have been manipulated.

For a movement that talks incessantly about the dangers fiscal deficits pose to future generations, conservatives seem curiously uninterested in letting those future generations have their say, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

A group with roots in the oil and gas industry is encouraging women to talk about politics this fall, even if they hold widely different views.

A Calgary organization that argues climate change is nothing close to a global emergency says Elections Canada is right to keep a close eye on campaign-period communications from the climate-change lobby.

The man whose position on climate change is at the centre of a controversy over partisan campaign rhetoric weighed in on Monday, August 19, 2019, saying Elections Canada is stifling free speech if environmental groups can't produce ads that describe global warming as a real crisis borne of human behaviour.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the fact an organization could be labelled partisan by Elections Canada just for saying that climate change is real underscores the frustration that there are still some politicians who don't believe climate change is a problem.

Canada's top two elections officials say a bill to modernize election laws will make it difficult to stop computer hackers from sowing chaos that confuses voters, deterring them from casting ballots and undermining confidence in the electoral system.

The British Columbia Liberal Party says it has found 43 so-called indirect donations worth almost $93,000, which it plans to reimburse.