Kevin O'Leary

The deadline has come and gone for the Conservative leadership contenders to sign up new members.

Leadership hopeful Michael Chong was also making headlines Monday — but not for his campaign efforts.

Conservative leadership candidate Lisa Raitt is demanding cheaters be booted from the party's leadership race as questions continue to swirl around bogus membership sales.

The Armalite-15 is one of the most infamous firearms of the modern era, used in at least four mass shootings in the U.S. in recent years.

The federal Conservative party removed more than 1,300 people from its membership rolls on March, 17, following a review triggered by Kevin O'Leary's accusation of widespread fraud and vote-rigging.

"Kevin O'Leary is a loser. I'm a winner," said Tory leadership contender Maxime Bernier on Friday.

The Conservative party is investigating allegations from leadership hopeful Kevin O'Leary that one of his rivals is engaging in fraud and vote-rigging.

Michael Chong used the word “they” instead of “we” to refer to his own Conservative party and its “battle” with scientists while it was under the leadership of Stephen Harper.

Federal Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary says he is going to alter his accounting procedures to make sure he is meeting the rules on using private planes.

Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary says he won't take part in Tuesday's official party debate in Edmonton, citing the format.

It's clear that conservatives at the February 2017 Manning Centre conference in Ottawa were thinking about the political ramifications of the seismic political shift in the U.S. in recent months.

"If we are going to win the next election we need to have a credible position to reduce emissions," said Conservative MP and leadership candidate Michael Chong.

McNeil was responding to a letter, posted Wednesday on O'Leary's Facebook page, in which the reality TV star slammed the Liberal premier for the state of the province's economy.

The short clip, posted on the video sharing service Vimeo, shows O'Leary blazing away at paper targets with a number of firearms, including what looks like a heavy-calibre sniper rifle.

"Demagoguery is leading to cesspools of hate on social media, and it’s leading to a rise in hate crimes," says Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong.