Stephanie Taylor
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Reporter with The Canadian Press
Jean Charest launches bid for Conservative leadership, saying party is 'fractured'
Former Quebec premier Jean Charest launched his bid for the Conservative leadership on Thursday, March 10, 2022, by saying he wants to unite the party, which he believes has spent the past years "badly distracted" and "fractured."
Some Tories demand tougher stand on Bill 21. Will that happen during leadership race?
Organizations representing Sikhs and Muslims in Canada say they want Conservative leadership hopefuls to take a strong stand against Quebec's controversial secularism law.
Ontario Tory MP Leslyn Lewis confirms second bid for party's top job
Rookie Ontario MP Leslyn Lewis is taking a second run at the Conservative leadership.
Who's in, who's out and who else may enter race to lead Conservative party
With Sept. 10 picked as the date for when the Conservative Party of Canada will have a new leader, time is ticking for prospective candidates and their teams to get into place. Those running have until April 19 to throw their hat into the ring and until June 3 to sell memberships.
Poilievre's team attacks Charest's Conservative cred as his campaign takes shape
A Conservative senator from Quebec helping Pierre Poilievre try to win leadership of the party is criticizing Jean Charest as a "Conservative of convenience," who on Monday, March 7, 2022, nabbed an endorsement from another potential contender.
A group of longtime Conservatives is advocating for leadership hopefuls to develop credible climate plans but that's not the whole story
Ken Boessenkool, executive director of the recently launched Conservatives for Clean Growth, said Friday it doesn't view a consumer carbon price as the make-or-break feature of a good plan to tackle climate change.
GiveSendGo defends Ottawa anti-vax-mandate occupation and raising money for KKK and Proud Boys
The co-founder of GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding platform used by protesters who blockaded the national capital, testified on Thursday, March 3, 2022, to being OK with hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Proud Boys fundraising on the site, so long as it was legal.
Charest travels to Ottawa to discuss party leadership
While the race to lead the Conservative Party of Canada may still only have one contender, its members of Parliament are being invited to meet with a potential second.
How Canadian police moved in calmly and forcefully on Ottawa anti-vax-mandate protestors
Police officers donned helmets, wielded batons and deployed pepper spray in downtown Ottawa on Saturday, February 19, 2022, as they tried to clear out protesters putting up what the city's interim police chief described as a "barrage of resistance" to ending their illegal occupation of the national capital.
Trucker anti-vax-mandate Ottawa protest organizers get a reality check
Pat King, one of the leading figures behind an antigovernment protest on Parliament Hill is set to appear in court today to face charges related to his role in the demonstration.