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Five New By-election Candidates Announce 20 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
[Welcome, National Newswatch readers!] Five new by-election candidates have announced their intention to seek their party's nomination in the last day, from Bourassa to Brandon. Bourassa, QC Juno-awa...
Fourth Commons Vacancy Opens; More to Come? If so, Who? 13 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
Merv Tweed became the fourth M.P. to resign from the House of Commons since June this morning. But his resignation and a few other signs have people asking whether he will be the last Conservative M.P...
Liberals Set Bourassa Nomination Date and other Fall By-election News Updates 8 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
Today's countdown to the calling of federal by-elections brings an updated calendar, a scheduled nomination meeting, two or more confirmed nomination candidacies, and a candidate we forgot to mention ...
UPDATED: More by-election candidates set to announce 6 Aug 2013 | 09:44 am
[Welcome, National Newswatch readers!] A midsummer check-in with the political calendar finds the Liberals and NDP gearing up for their next tests of strength, with one or more nomination candidates s...
Conservatives defy expectations; post blow-out second quarter fundraising 31 Jul 2013 | 07:14 pm
[Welcome, National Newswatch readers!] The Conservative Party, battered in the media, continues to be an institution worthy of investing in — at least according to its own financial contributors, as t...
Conservatives sitting on $7 million nest-egg, and a $7 million surprise 4 Jul 2013 | 02:57 pm
[Welcome, National Newswatch readers!] The Conservative Party has been able to set aside roughly one-third of their national expense ceiling for the next election, putting $7.1 million into guaranteed...
FINAL UPDATE: Amended Glover return shows cabinet hopeful overspent in 2011 21 Jun 2013 | 11:40 pm
Shelly Glover's amended financial return from the 2011 general election has now been posted on the Elections Canada website, and it reports over spending of 2.76% of the expense ceiling for her Saint ...
Pollster tests Torontonians’ hopes, fears about Trudeau 21 Jun 2013 | 03:20 pm
In the lead-up to the by-election call in out-going Liberal MP Bob Rae's Toronto Centre riding, an online pollster is taking soundings about Torontonians' views on federal politics, including numerous...
UPDATED: Rae, Coderre resignations pave way for great reckoning 20 Jun 2013 | 12:08 pm
[Welcome, National Newswatch readers!] The dual resignations of Liberal MPs Denis Coderre and Bob Rae from the House of Commons will, luckily for the Prime Minister, put the focus back on the battle b...
Guest Post: Senate Abolition as a Matter of Law and Politics 2 Jun 2013 | 11:26 am
Once again, I have been lucky enough to snag a guest post from an academic expert in a topical field – this time from the former Dean of Law at the University of New Brunswick, who in his former life ...
