Elections Canada

Party leaders hit the hustings at the start of the long weekend hoping to fire up their bases and their get-out-the-vote machines before turkeys are served on Thanksgiving tables — or drop on their chances at electoral success.

Democracy Watch says it is calling for an investigation into whether the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the Conservatives violated Canada's elections law.

A Newfoundland beekeeper who intended to run as a Marijuana Party candidate in this month's federal election had his hopes dashed when he realized too late that he was missing necessary paperwork.

Canada's largest youth climate strike has been deliberately designed to be non-partisan.

An international body that specializes in monitoring elections is skipping this year's Canadian election due to limited resources despite questions and potential concerns about the role of third-party groups, cybersecurity and social media in the campaign.

The federal party leaders have spent the first days of the election campaign talking policy, as they'd like, and dismissing and defending candidates over old social-media posts, which they'd rather not.

The Conservatives, NDP and Greens return to their national tours today, September 13, 2019, after an evening spent sparring in Toronto, while Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau picks up his campaign in Quebec.

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 federal New Democrats ended last year by going deeper into the red.

People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier says he had nothing to do with the anti-immigration billboards featuring his picture. But the advertising firm that paid for them is linked to a company that hosted a fundraiser for him.

Billboards with Maxime Bernier's face and a slogan advocating against mass immigration cropped up on Friday, August 22, 2019, in several major Canadian cities.

Caro Loutfi is busy at her Montreal office preparing ways to get young voters to cast a ballot in this fall's federal election.

The vague language of the Liberals' Elections Modernization Act opened the door for Elections Canada's wild overreach in defining partisanship.

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.