Month: August 2020

Democrats are bracing for a long, drawn-out primary season. With just six weeks until the Iowa caucuses, some Democrats say they don’t expect a likely nominee to emerge anytime soon after early-voting states hold their contests. Instead, they’re preparing for a bruising four-way match-up that could drag on for months as candidates compete for the…

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would be well placed to fight an election this fall, seen as the leader best able to care for Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic and to get the economy back on its feet. Respondents to the poll, conducted by Leger and the Association for Canadian…

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Health care and national security sat on the top of a list of Americans’ top concerns heading in to the primary season, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. The poll found that 81 percent of respondents ranked health care as an issue important in their vote, higher than any other issue, with the highest percentage…

This story is part of After The Curve, an ongoing HuffPost Canada series that makes sense of how the COVID-19 crisis could change our country in the months and years ahead, and what opportunities exist to make Canada better. On a 10-acre farm in British Columbia, Lliam Hildebrand grew up with an insatiable curiosity for…

OTTAWA — The legal team for a Huawei executive facing extradition to the United States has lost its battle to have the contents of six confidential documents released to them. Meng Wanzhou’s defence team argued in Federal Court that the redacted documents would support its position that Meng suffered an abuse of process during her…

Conservatives have elected Erin O’Toole, an Ontario MP pledging to “take back Canada,” to lead their party into the future. O’Toole upsetPeter MacKay, the perceived front-runner, on the third round of the party’s leadership vote count, a process that stretched into the early hours of Monday morning in Ottawa. Toronto lawyer Leslyn Lewis, the first…

OTTAWA — When Erin O’Toole was named the next leader of the federal Conservative party early Monday, his caucus colleague Cathay Wagantall watched the live televised results from the headquarters of a rival campaign. Wagantall endorsed Leslyn Lewis, a newcomer to the federal political scene and one of two social conservatives in the eight-month leadership…

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Renault engine boss Rémi Taffin isn’t forecasting any major difficulties associated with the upcoming ban on special qualifying power unit modes. The FIA has issued a technical directive that will outlaw “party” modes on Saturday afternoon and force teams to freeze engine settings for qualifying and the race, with the rule implemented from next week’s…