Stephen Maher

Stephen Maher: Canada is the best country in the world, and no province is leaving. What is real is the anger and Justin Trudeau is ill-suited to deal with it.

Stephen Maher: Yves-François Blanchet won support talking not of separatism but of Bill 21—a political issue which may have a simple solution in the end

Stephen Maher: Without a majority, both the Liberal and Conservative leaders will have failed in key ways, and their parties could push for change

Facebook pulled an anti-Trudeau ad from a third-party group funded by the Manning Centre. The organization has backed a number of other intense ads.

Stephen Maher: Too many people making too many points, at the same time, in short bursts. It was a good picture of the range of opinion in the Internet era.

Stephen Maher: What is the Conservatives’ position on electric vehicles? The answer is unclear and it says a lot about the choices on offer in this election.

Stephen Maher: Many climate plans rely on continuing to produce emissions and leaving it to the next generation to get carbon out of the air. It’s a choice we can’t afford.

In week 1, the Liberals spent as much as $148,947. The Tories, meanwhile, are not as sold on Facebook and are turning to the phones, documents suggest.

Stephen Maher: If the momentum shifts, the NDP will suddenly be competitive in urban seats, while Tories can hope for the splits they need in the suburbs

Stephen Maher: By meeting the organizer’s threshold, the PPC leader earned his ticket—but it shouldn’t extend to equal air time on our TVs as the frontrunners