Carney meets with trade committee; Poilievre pushes back on ‘campaign malpractice’ criticism; Singh mum on future as NDP leader

How the parties are faring 3 weeks into federal election campaign

Amy Smith interviews Erin Crandall, a political science professor at Acadia University. They talk about how crowd size at events, media strategies, and debates affect voters.

Carney meets with trade committee; Poilievre pushes back on ‘campaign malpractice’ criticism; Singh mum on future as NDP leader

The leaders of the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP rounded out the third week of the federal election campaign in Ontario.

Anti-Panel, Week 3: Finally, this actually feels like a campaign

During the election, and then once after to wrap-up, The Line has assembled a panel of partisans, but fun ones! People we know and like. They’re going to help us analyze the campaign, but they’ve also agreed to give some honest feedback to their own parties. Though we suspect we might have to force them into that each week. We have Amanda Galbraith, partner at Oyster Group, offering a Conservative perspective; Kim Wright, principal and founder a…

No orange wave for Leclerc to ride this time around

The good news for the local chapter of the New Democratic Party (NDP) is that Mario Leclerc, an excellent candidate, answered the call to arms. The bad news is that this time around there is no orange wave/vague orange to ride. That was in 2011 when the party, with the dynamic Jack Layton at the wheel, over-ran the Liberal fortress to become the Official opposition. There was talk of a Liberal/NDP coalition. It was called the orange wave with th…

Canadian conservative leader Pierre Poilievre promised during a campaign event this Saturday to deport foreigners who commit hate crimes, accusing pro-Palestinian protesters of participating in "hate marches" that contribute to an increase in anti-Semitism.Two weeks after the April 28 legislatives, the head of the opposition and candidate for prime minister offered a rally in Ottawa, an electoral district in which the incumbent and liberal leade…