“The Right Path” on a winding road.

 The Right Path: How Conservatives Can United, Inspire and Take Canada Forward Author: Tasha Kheiriddin Published by: Optimum Publishing International ISNB - 13: 9780888903310 The Conservative Party of Canada’s third leadership race in six years will be decided on September 10th. The winner of what has been, at times, a very nasty

The existential crisis in the Conservative Party

 ABOVE: (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) Conservative leadership candidates Scott Aitchison, Roman Baber, Patrick Brown, Pierre Poilievre, Leslyn Lewis, and Jean Charest. There is an adage that perfectly fits the Conservative Party of Canada today, “‘Do You Want to Be Right . . . or do you want to win.” The answer to that question

Stab, stab, stab: time to bring out the classics

 As a once-prominent federal Liberal, my DMs this week have been a less-than-fun place. The overall message to Team Trudeau? Welcome to your first real election! Yes, the team ran a solid campaign in 2015 and came from 3rd to win a majority. Props. But they were running against a

The week that wasn’t.

 “Events, dear boy, events!” — Rt. Hon. Harold McMillan, OM, PC, Earl of Stockton Well that wasn’t what we were told to expect! One would struggle to remember a more surprising first week to an election campaign. The federal vote in 2000 is the one that comes to mind but in

To win, Conservatives first need to see Red

 The starting gun has been fired on the Conservative Party leadership race. Questions of ‘who’s in’ and ‘who’s out’ are swirling. The leadership race is also bringing to the fore another important, perhaps more consequential question: what does it mean to be a Tory today? Maclean’s Paul Wells recently touched

The winnability factor—Charest, Poilievre, Ambrose are the early favourites in the Conservative leadership race

 The Conservative Party of Canada lost the 2019 election to a highly narcissistic Prime Minister who was found guilty of serious ethics violations twice in his first mandate, and who wore blackface on at least three occasions — as a young man and as an adult — including when he

The best and the worst from last night’s debate

 Last night Canadian’s had the chance to hear the leaders butt heads over many contentious issues. There were some high points and low points for sure but overall the tone and temperament of the evening was respectful and dignified.  Here is Ottawa Life Magazine’s best and worst from last night’s debate.

Federal Election 2019: Canadians will have unprecedented access to the debates

 Photo credit: Canadian Debate Production Partnership Election day is fast approaching and the six federal party leaders are preparing to go toe-to-toe in the federal election debates! An informed voter is the best kind of voter and this year, Canadians will have access to the debate on an unprecedented scale.

Ottawa Life’s 2019 Election Outlook: Ottawa Carleton – MP Pierre Poilievre’s star still rising

 Carleton is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968 and since 2015. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1821 to 1840 and in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841

The Emperor Has No Clothes  

 The NDP are in freefall. With just ten months until the next election the question for many party members is whether or not they should jettison Jagmeet Singh now and bring back Thomas Mulcair, or recruit Alberta Premier Rachel Notley as the NDP federal leader before the party walks off

Issues set to arise for the Opposition Party in the upcoming Federal Election

 Photo credit: Andrew Scheer/Flickr With the upcoming 2019 Federal election, tensions are arising as parties begin to build their platform. In a survey conducted by Abacus Data, approximately 2,000 Canadians aged 18 and older were polled online. It was found that over 57% prefer a change in the current government, bearing

Meet Jill Scheer: A quick Q+A

 Photo credit: Sean Sisk OLM: How are you adjusting to your role since Andrew won the leadership? Jill Scheer: It's fine, we are a busy, active family and it can be crazy busy sometimes but overall its good. Since winning the leadership we are back in Ottawa with the kids

Who is dealing with the biggest humanitarian crisis of our times? Who is truly fighting DAESH?

  By H.e. Selçuk Ünal,  Ambassador Of Turkey To Canada Turkey is at the centre of the response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria-Iraq by hosting 3.5 million vulnerable. The total cost passed 30 billion USD - with no international assistance in the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. The additional challenge and

Beyak’s Anti-Native Comments Shock in Many Ways

 Lynn Beyak is not someone who would usually make much of an impression on the public world, with her background in real estate, insurance, and selling cars. But in 2013 the Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed her to the Senate, where she remained fairly anonymous. Until, that is, her appalling

Calling All Neanderthals! The REAL BARBIE GERRY “The DITZ” RITZ

 There is a great saying from the Maritimes that describes someone who is, well, STUPID. You refer to someone who is genuinely stupid as “dumber than a bag of hammers.”  Now at work, I like to say to people that sometimes when bad things happen and you are trying to figure

The Top 25 People in the Capital: 11-20

 Photo by Valerie Keeler This year we teamed up with Crusoe, the Celebrity Dachshund, to sniff out the top dogs in the city that are actually people. Crusoe got his game face on and scouted out Ottawans that are the ones to watch. They are the best that the capital has

Poilievre Named Shadow Minister of Finance -Vows All Out Campaign to Oppose Liberal Tax Hikes

 Conservative Leader, Andrew Scheer, announced today that Ottawa Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre will be the official finance critic (Shadow Minister of Finance). Poilievre said the appointment is a great honour adding “I will have three main priorities in the new role. First, I will fight Liberal tax increases. The Trudeau government

Scheer Story: A Complex One

 Since Andrew Scheer won the leadership of the federal Conservative Party, columns have described him as “Harper Light” or "Harper with a Smile." Yet, to a very large extent the 38-year-old is to the right of Harper, who might have been a committed conservative but was also a pragmatist. Scheer

Ed Socks it to Canada Day!

 Photos courtesy of the back of Ed's closet It’s 15-Oh Canada, eh! Sure we could have gone to J.T. himself, we could have lined up a new rendition of “Tears Are Not Enough” with Northern Lights 2017 and we could have even hosted a séance with the ghost of ol’