Two Liberal Party staffers attended last week’s Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference where they planted buttons that used Trump-style language and highlighted division within the Conservative Party.

A Saskatchewan-specific poll of voters suggests Trump tariffs and leader favourability may be boosting Liberal fortunes in the province’s two largest cities.

CBC’s The House profiles the Quebec riding of Châteauguay-Les Jardins-de-Napierville, where Bloc challenger Patrick O’Hara, who lost by 12 votes last election, is back to take on Liberal star candidate Nathalie Provost.

Ex-oil engineer Kiran Somanchi says oil and gas launched his career, helped him buy a house and gave him a sense of purpose. That’s why it feels personal when politicians condemn the oilpatch and use it as a political tool to score points by blocking pipelines. He wants to vote for a party that sees oil and gas as a platform for nation-building.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is accusing the Liberals of sending mixed messages over the war in Gaza as video emerges of a Liberal candidate calling the crisis a ‘genocide’ just days after leader Mark Carney clarified his own remarks.

Two federal party leaders took aim Saturday at Liberal Leader Mark Carney, whom polls suggest is the front-runner in the April 28 election, for once again skipping the campaign trail.

Environmental issues have slid way down the list of Canadians’ concerns in this federal election compared to the last campaign, according to data from Vote Compass.

Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney are offering similar sounding plans that would fast-track regulatory processes and create energy corridors to develop natural resource projects. But some industry observers are cautioning that there may be big challenges to what they’ve put forward.

During Canada’s last federal election, roughly equal numbers of young men and women voted Conservative. Since then, young people have gone in opposite directions: young women identify increasingly as progressive, and young men increasingly as conservative.

When Jordan Kawchuk started dating an American woman more than a decade ago, he didn’t know he’d end up having an extended family full of Trump supporters.