federal election 2019

The NDP leader was at his most compelling when he was mad, and standing up for a cause. It helped him emerge from the first debate looking like the winner.

It should be easy to look prime ministerial when the Prime Minister isn’t at the debate. But Scheer couldn’t quite pull it off.

Scheer aimed to highlight trust-plus-affordabilty, while May declared the status quo obsolete. But Singh hit his marks most consistently with his focus on fighting the power.

Stephen Maher: While Scheer hit a wall with his climate plan and Singh came up short on policy detail, the Green leader, an experienced debater, took over

Tabatha Southey: Between the Greens’ ’own-goaling,’ the NDP being short of good enough, the Conservatives wanting to erase Andrew Scheer’s 2005, and the Liberals’ knack at keeping SNC in the news—here’s how each party stands at the opening of election season

Here’s where the parties stand on issues affecting Indigenous people and their sometimes fraught relationship with Ottawa

Where each of the parties stand on Canada’s place in a fraught global landscape—and what, among so many competing issues, are their priorities

Where each of the parties stand on the increasingly top-of-mind issue of climate change—and what they propose to do about it

Where the parties stand on the tricky question of an economy that’s booming, but has also left many Canadians feeling left behind

Philippe J. Fournier: A flurry of new polls are out to mark the start of the federal election campaign. They put the Liberals one seat shy of a majority.