Conservative Party of Canada leadership

If Tories are looking for a middle-aged male leader who took law at Dal, followed his dad into politics, served in the Harper cabinet, likes pipelines, struggles with French and recognizes Pride Month, we have wonderful news

Frank Graves and Michael Valpy: As in the U.K. and the U.S., ordered populism has polarized Canada into two incommensurable camps

The aw-shucks demeanour of the new leader of the opposition and the federal Tories belies his complexity, and maybe his electability, too

At least one guy was at the Tory leadership event and the anime festival next door

From Leitch’s provocations, to O’Leary’s exit, to Bernier’s sustained traction, an intriguing contest is coming down to the wire

The Tory leadership front runner’s plan to end federal funding of health care might be his biggest gamble

Chong says Maxime Bernier’s ‘extreme vision’ would hand Trudeau’s Liberals the next election

Scott Gilmore on spotting cynical opportunists in the Tory leadership race

With Peter MacKay on the sidelines, the Conservative leadership field is a wide-open desert expanse

Whether it’s Quebec’s values charter or screening for ‘anti-Canadian values’, populist crutches aren’t just wrong, they’re bad politics

Evan Solomon on Kellie Leitch’s ‘values test’ for new immigrants, and what ‘Canadian values’ really even mean

Chong’s pitch to Canadian Tories echoes Rubio’s to the U.S. GOP