In contrast to the 2015 campaign, when Idle No More was still flourishing and anti-Harper sentiment drove record-high Indigenous turnout, this election sees Indigenous issues on the sidelines, and neither hate nor hope is motivating Native voters.
Twenty minutes of the Oct. 7 debate were allocated for a discussion about Indigenous issues among all six Canadian federal leaders. But as quickly as this segment began, it derailed into a haphazard conversation about pipelines, Quebec and climate change.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is touting his party's climate-change policies in Iqaluit today, October 8, 2019, the first party leader to go to the North in this federal election campaign.
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Bernier's year-old People’s Party of Canada calls for "ending official multiculturalism" and slashing the number of immigrants allowed into the country. Its platform also denies the science of climate change.
With the front-runners catching their breath, the battle for third place seized the campaign spotlight on Saturday, October 5, 2019, as the NDP and the Green party each promised a new deal of sorts for Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
A Green party candidate running in Barrie, Ont., has admitted in a Facebook post to previously wearing "a costume" that "perpetuates racist attitudes."
Climate change will dominate the federal election campaign today, Friday 27, 2019, with most of the leaders joining marches demanding cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions.
Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May are continuing on the campaign trail today, September 21, 2019, while the leaders of the bigger parties take a break from the road.
If the country is serious about race, Canadians would connect the dots and ask hard questions of our top leaders: we would ask when they acknowledged racism, if they understand racism — and if they don't, why they believe they are best suited to help all the communities in this country.
The Liberals and New Democrats are both making promises that would need some collaboration with the provinces to become reality, at a time when powerful premiers have made it clear they see a relationship with Ottawa that is headed in a very different direction.