OTTAWA — Conservative candidate Parm Gill sent letters of support to Canada’s broadcast regulator on behalf of two radio licence applicants in Brampton, Ont., while a parliamentary secretary — despite guidelines from the federal ethics commissioner forbidding such interventions. Gill, who is seeking re-election, wrote the Canadian Radio-television and TelecommunicationsRead More

TORONTO — The New Democrats were refocusing their campaign attacks Thursday squarely on the Liberals as Justin Trudeau raises more questions about Tom Mulcair’s fiscal calculations. In Toronto for a town hall-style meeting with supporters, Mulcair accused the Liberals of walking in step with Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, first by votingRead More

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he isn’t surprised by a report that says the processing of some Syrian refugees was halted this spring so the Prime Minister’s Office could vet their applications. Trudeau is calling it further evidence of Stephen Harper’s lack of transparency, and us urgingRead More

OTTAWA — Conservative candidate Parm Gill sent letters of support to Canada’s broadcast regulator on behalf of two radio licence applicants in Brampton, Ont., while a parliamentary secretary — despite guidelines from the federal ethics commissioner forbidding such interventions. Gill, who is seeking re-election, wrote the Canadian Radio-television and TelecommunicationsRead More

TORONTO — The New Democrats were refocusing their campaign attacks Thursday squarely on the Liberals as Justin Trudeau raises more questions about Tom Mulcair’s fiscal calculations. In Toronto for a town hall-style meeting with supporters, Mulcair accused the Liberals of walking in step with Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, first by votingRead More

OTTAWA — New Democrats, if elected on Oct. 19, promise to maintain stable defence spending and equip the military to resume leadership in the United Nations peacekeeping, with an eye to making Canada the top troop contributor among western nations within a few years. The pledge is one of theRead More

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Raj Grewal spies a dozen older Sikh women holding court around a picnic table in a suburban Brampton, Ont., park and strides over, switching to Punjabi and introducing himself as the area’s Liberal candidate. The women exchange some skeptical glances — Grewal receives a warmer welcome atRead More

OTTAWA — The Conservative party says a candidate who defended therapies that attempt to turn gays straight is no longer their official representative in a suburban Toronto riding, although it is too late to remove him from the ballot. Jagdish Grewal, who is running in Mississauga-Malton, wrote an editorial entitledRead More

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne scrambled Wednesday to explain why reporters were shut out of all the events she had scheduled with a Chinese Communist Party official. When first asked Tuesday night why she agreed to exclude the media from her meetings and events with Luo Zhijun — partyRead More

LONDON, Ont. — Justin Trudeau says a Liberal government would start re-engaging Canada with the world by signing a landmark global treaty to regulate the arms trade. The Conservative government’s refusal to sign the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty is an example of how Stephen Harper’s penchant for going itRead More