Federal Election
October 25, 2008 - 8:10 PM
Blog - Politics
Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh is still the MP for Vancouver South after a judicial recount showed he had a 22-vote lead over his opponent, Wai Young.
October 20, 2008 - 11:19 AM
Straight TalkAt a news conference in Ottawa, Stéphane Dion said he will not seek his party’s leadership, which clears the way for a successor to be chosen.
October 17, 2008 - 6:37 PM
Straight TalkTwo narrow victories that went to Conservative candidates on election night, involving ridings in Ontario and Prince Edward Island, will be subjected to judicial recounts.
October 17, 2008 - 1:01 PM
Blog - Politics
CBC News is citing unnamed sources to suggest that Liberal Leader Stephane Dion will step down on Monday (October 20).
October 16, 2008 - 6:55 PM
Straight TalkThere will be a judicial recount of votes cast in the riding of Vancouver South in the federal election, Elections Canada announced today (October 16).
October 16, 2008 - 5:38 PM
Blog - Politics A long-time card-carrying Conservative who dressed up as a chicken to encourage a Vancouver Kingsway MP to run in a by-election has released his own list of winners and losers from the federal election.
October 16, 2008 - 1:11 PM
Blog - Politics
Throughout the federal election campaign, Green Leader Elizabeth May described Liberal Leader Stephane Dion as an honourable man.
October 15, 2008 - 4:38 PM
Blog - Politics On Wednesday (October 15), the day after the federal election, Fair Vote Canada’s phone was ringing away. Larry Gordon, the executive director of the Toronto-based group that lobbies for proportional representation in government, said that there’s a renewed vigour for democratic reform in Canada.
October 15, 2008 - 11:28 AM
Blog - Politics Giving thanks where it is due: It's true Harper has an increased minority, but it's still a minority.
October 15, 2008 - 07:42 AM
Straight TalkAfter Stephen Harper gained a second minority government in three years, the popular topic in the Green camp was when and how there should be some kind of electoral reform.
October 15, 2008 - 00:44 AM
Straight TalkVancouver Centre candidate Michael Byers didn't win October 14, but that didn't mean he stopped campaigning. Sipping a well-deserved Sleemen's, Byers told the Straight he'll be back to unseat Hedy Fry.
October 15, 2008 - 00:06 AM
Straight TalkThe NDP crowd was hungry for a victory, so when Vancouver-Kingsway candidate Don Davies walked into Heritage Hall, it might as well have been Posh ’n’ Becks. The thick crowd pounded their applause, and chanted "Davies, Davies!"
October 14, 2008 - 11:57 PM
Straight TalkExuberant Vancouver Quadra Green party candidate Dan Grice has once again nailed down third spot, taking the bronze medal for the second time in the space of a year behind Liberal incumbent MP Joyce Murray and Conservative Deborah Meredith.
October 14, 2008 - 11:29 PM
Straight TalkOn October 14, reelected Vancouver Centre MP Hedy Fry walked into the Sheraton Wall Centre ballroom to a hero's welcome. In her victory speech, Fry said, "We are not going to work with the NDP."
October 14, 2008 - 10:33 PM
Straight Talk
James Moore of the Conservatives has won a massive victory in Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, capturing 54.7 percent of the vote with 205 of 212 polls reporting.