conservatives

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

The Conservatives lost at the polls, but they’re well-positioned to come storming back. Martin Patriquin explains why.

To measure the Conservative party’s new tone, look to one question of public policy: how we deal with heroin addiction

Conservatives took for granted that they had won the intellectual debate about deficits. So when the Liberal party made its surprising tack left during the campaign, Conservatives simply didn’t have the words.

Some thoughts on women and politics and party and leadership, as noted on Twitter

Beaten back to its core in the west, the debate begins over the fate of the Conservative Party for the first time since its founding

Scott Gilmore grew up learning that real men voted Tory

Why do men do most of the most of the talking in the new Tory campaign ads, while women sit quietly by?

The Tories’ invocation of Terry Fox at a campaign event crossed a line the young runner always avoided—and left the family angry

It’s the economy, stupid. Maclean’s takes an in-depth look at what the leaders are offering on taxes, spending and Canada’s prospects for prosperity