Conservative Party

There’s much about Scheer’s agenda that should alarm Canadians. Bruce Livesey explains why.

Imagine if the genocide of Indigenous nations, broken treaties, boil-water advisories, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, police brutality, torture complicity, security certificates, no-fly lists and indefinite detention were treated equally as scandalous as Trudeau in blackface.

Britain's envoy to Canada says her government wants to avoid a no-deal Brexit departure from the European Union, and its presentation of documents to Brussels on Thursday, September 19, 2019, was a step towards a last-ditch agreement.

“Hold hostage.” That one particular phrase from Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer about Indigenous rights sparked an intense, minutes-long altercation between the three federal political leaders who showed up for the first debate of the 2019 election campaign.

Olympic synchronized swimming gold medallist Sylvie Frechette says she is comfortable with the social conservative views of her new boss, Tory leader Andrew Scheer.

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.

On June 12, Barrie city council voted unanimously to reprimand Coun. Keenan Aylwin for calling out two Tory MPs for "playing footsies" with white supremacy. The reprimand was the first the council had delivered to one of its own, and in delivering it Barrie, Ontario, has become a microcosmic study in how difficult it can be for governments to effectively tackle the increasingly troubling issue.

The prime minister's comment came after a Conservative MP made headlines for a second time for making Islamophobic comments.

Four young Canadians are tracking the commitments of federal political parties on the climate crisis as campaigns rev up for the fall election.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer should eject colleague Michael Cooper from the Tory caucus over things the MP said about online hate in a parliamentary hearing last week, says a Liberal MP.

"We have two Conservative MPs in Barrie that have been silent on their leader's appearance on the same stage as a neo-Nazi sympathizer.  This is unacceptable and it is dangerous. They are playing footsies with white supremacists...," Barrie city councillor Keenan Aylwin wrote in a Facebook post.

MP Tony Clement says he will not seek re-election, citing a desire to continue a "better lived life."

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh appeared poised to win his do-or-die bid to capture a British Columbia seat in the House of Commons.

MP Tony Clement is breaking his social media silence for the first time since a sexting scandal forced him to out of the Conservative Party.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer shouldn't have taken Tony Clement at his word that he'd only been involved in one improper online exchange, a prominent conservative political consultant says.