CP Election

Realtors welcome Conservative plan to ease mortgage stress-test rules

OTTAWA - Canada's realtors welcomed news that the Conservatives want to ease a contentious mortgage stress test, despite a previous warning from the head of the CMHC. Canadian Real Estate Association ...

Sep 23, 2019

Scheer pledges to allow longer mortgages, remove 'stress test' for renewals

VAUGHAN, Ont. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer laid out a plan this morning he says would make it cheaper for Canadians to buy homes, loosening rules put in place by the former Conservative governm...

Sep 23, 2019

Singh makes first visit as NDP leader to N.B., apologizes for not coming sooner

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is trying to sell himself as Canada's next prime minister to the people of New Brunswick, and apologizing for the fact it is his first visit to the province since beco...

Sep 23, 2019

Trudeau promises more money to kickstart health-care talks with provinces

HAMILTON - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is promising a national pharmacare program, but isn't saying how much it would cost to be fully implemented or when that would happen. The Liberals say they wo...

Sep 23, 2019

Liberals pay extra attention to seat held by Poilievre, the Tories' agitator

GREELY, Ont. - The battle for a semi-rural riding south of Ottawa has all the makings of something personal for the Liberals. Conservative Pierre Poilievre won it in 2015, but not by very much ov...

Sep 23, 2019

Battleground Ontario: Trudeau, Scheer hope Golden Horseshoe proves lucky

OTTAWA - Ontario: A place to take a stand, a place to grow your votes. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and Liberal rival Justin Trudeau are each hoping to discover a bountiful crop of support as the...

Sep 23, 2019

Canadian celebrities target election with Artists for Real Climate Action

TORONTO - For actress Cynthia Dale, the climate crisis has her concerned for her son and future generations of her family. She worries she may have a grandchild who will never know certain species she...

Sep 23, 2019

From the mouths of babes: Green ads featuring youngsters strike new chord

OTTAWA - Elizabeth May's Green party is turning its federal campaign into something of a children's crusade. The party is introducing a batch of video advertisements - in English and French - tha...

Sep 23, 2019

Singh-Trudeau meeting will be private, say Liberals, but no time set yet

OTTAWA - The Liberal Party pledged Saturday to keep private the details of any conversation between NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau about the blackface scandal that rocked the federal elec...

Sep 23, 2019

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh tells Quebec television audience he shares province's values

MONTREAL - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh told a Quebec television audience Sunday night that he shared Quebecers' values on abortion, women's rights and same-sex marriage, despite his deep - and consp...

Sep 22, 2019