Huffington Post Canada sat down with Giller Prize-winning author and aboriginal activist Joseph Boyden backstage at We Day where he spoke to thousands of students in Toronto. (This week, he endorsed Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for prime minister.) Link To Article
Conservative Party advertising targeting Chinese and Punjabi-speaking voters claims that Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau supports the sale of marijuana to children, the expansion of safe injection sites and the establishment of neighbourhood brothels. The attack ads include misleading claims about Liberal policies and community journalists say they are offensive. Read more
Yet after a drubbing in the 2008 election, former Richmond MP and junior cabinet minister Raymond Chan has recently re-emerged as a pivotal – and polarizing – fundraiser in British Columbia, a conduit between new Mainland Chinese wealth and the party leadership. His wife, Ting …
The ADL is one of myriad groups, including Reclaim Australia, the Patriots Defence League of Australia and the United Patriots Front – formerly led by “Great Aussie Patriot” Shermon Burgess – that make up the burgeoning anti-Islam movement in Australia. The speed with which the …
Canadians who want to think through the niqab debate will need to avoid the temptation to ponder only surface arguments, ones that miss subterranean societal tensions. Some argue that the Conservative government’s attempt to require that prospective citizens show their faces is an affront to …
Has German Chancellor Angela Merkel lost her mind?
Based on her decision to accept upwards of 1 million refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and other jihadist hotbeds, Donald Trump says the German leader’s policy is definitely “insane.” Read more
Stephen Harper is making no apologies for attack ads and flyers being distributed in Punjabi and Cantonese that warn a Trudeau government would lead to “illegal drug injection sites in our neighbourhoods” and “brothels in our communities.” Read more
The balance of what would have been spent to bring and resettle hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees to Canada could then be used to eradicate poverty and homelessness in Canada. For our own citizens, no less. Link To Article
Elections Canada says its staff are ready for any voters who want to cast a ballot, even if their faces are covered…
While the election campaign has been rolling on for 73 days now, only recently have the parties publicly released their platforms — and there is a big range in what they say about northern Ontario. New Democrats in the North are quick to rally around …
OTTAWA — All three major party leaders will campaign in Quebec today, targeting ridings in a key battleground that helped turn the tide for the NDP in 2011. An orange wave swept that province in the last election, giving the New Democrats 59 seats and …
It was the latest in the series of events in the ethnic community Kenney’s attended, some tied to the election, like roundtables with the ethnic press or work alongside local candidates from coast to coast… Read more