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Fundraising records are there to be broken, at least if you're the Conservative Party. But why hasn't voter support for the Conservatives grown at the same pace as their bank account?

Posted: May 03, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 3 Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford casts his vote on June 7, 2018, when he was elected premier. His leadership during the pandemic is being questioned, but theres no guarantee that dissatisfaction reflected in polls will last until the next election in June 2022.(Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)

Ontario premier Doug Ford is paying the steepest price politically for Canada’s third wave of the coronavirus. Photograph: Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images The province allowed restaurants to reopen to patio dining in late March, only to reverse course two weeks later as the third wave took hold. Restaurants Canada, a lobby group, estimates that businesses spent C$100 million (€67 million) preparing for the aborted reopening. Ford’s government declared a third stat...

May 1, 2021 Watch this week’s highlights from CPAC’s flagship show, PrimeTime Politics, the source for political roundup and analysis of policy issues. Get an insider’s perspective from Ottawa featuring interviews and guest panels from the Hill. Friday, April 30: Martin Stringer looks at the COVID-19 situation in Ontario and Quebec with Dr. Peter Juni of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, and Dr. Jia Hu, a Calgary public health physician. Journalists Ian Bailey (The Globe and M...

Philippe J. Fournier: Ten years ago, the NDP won a remarkable 59 seats in Quebec. In our latest election projection, the party is at risk of losing its lone seat in the province.

If the party hopes to truly summon its late leader’s spirit, Jagmeet Singh should declare that the NDP is seeking to win power, rather than simply being content to be Parliament’s conscience

Abacus Data poll: Canadians associate Budget 2021 with child care POLITICO 1 hr ago By Lauren Gardner © Hector Vivas/Getty Images The survey found that just 34 percent of Canadians were "quite" or "somewhat" familiar with Finance Minister Chrystia Freelands plan. While a majority of Canadians are ambivalent toward Budget 2021, they are aware it features the Liberal governments national child care plan, according to new research from Abacus Data. The survey, conducted betwee...

These lockdown renovations were done with an eye for post-pandemic living Backyard offices, home gyms, rock-climbing rooms. Here are some of the spaces reconfigured with new realities in mind. (Courtesy of Peter Toth/BC BoxOffice) It took a global pandemic for many Canadians to realize their homes are not as spacious or multi-functional as events might demand. The closure of office spaces, gyms and—for a while—playgrounds left many families feeling cramped at home. Parents searched for qu...

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More Federal Help To Provinces For COVID-19 Third Wave – April 27, 2021 As Ontario welcomes medical professionals from the military and from out-of-province to lend a hand to hospital ERs overwhelmed by new cases of COVID-19, MPs Jennifer O’Connell (Liberal), Eric Duncan (Conservative), and Lindsay Mathyssen (NDP) debate what Ontario needs to do next and how it should deliver sick-leave benefits to its workers. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey discusses his province’s decisi...