Canada’s leading political parties are backsliding by protecting fossil fuels, missing international climate commitments along the way. Here’s what we could do instead.
A report released Thursday by the Digital Democracy Project found campaign messages are being disguised as non-partisan fact checks, a new trend in political advertising.
An unsubstantiated rumour Prime Minister Justin Trudeau left a former teaching job due to a sex scandal is a case study for a crucial gap in Canada’s defences against disinformation on the campaign trail.
"How can any worker in the country vote Conservative?” asks the head of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, which represents 140,000 public servants.
The federal Conservative leader openly disagreed with Bill 21 and was clear that he would never support a similar bill banning religious symbols at the federal level if he were prime minister. So, why now support an Ontario candidate who seems to uphold the banning of religious pluralism in secular society?
Criticism swirled on social media after the Conservatives posted a graphic that featured the prime minister's face, with darker skin, edited onto a photo of an oil worker.
In a speech Tuesday laying out his foreign-policy platform, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer painted himself as Canada’s anti-fascist option—and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as weak against various authoritarian regimes, particularly China’s.
The Conservative Party of Canada is adding more detailed police checks to its vetting of candidates and creating a specific policy for handling complaints made against MPs and candidates.