Author: Cam Holmstrom

Since the Federal Election took place close to a month ago (I know, it feels like it’s been longer, hasn’t it?) and Canadians elected a minority Parliament, many have been wondering when we’d see that Parliament at work. There has been a lot of speculation as to when MPs would

This afternoon I had the chance to join Evan Solomon on “Ottawa Now” with Katlyn Harrison and Shane Mackenzie. Today we talked the firing of Don Cherry, the comments that got him fired and claims of anti-Catholic bigotry in regards to questions about Andrew Scheer’s Leadership. You can listen to

This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We talked about Remembrance Day, the future of NATO as an institution and the comments by Don Cherry. You can listen to a clip of the audio below. Enjoy!

The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is recorded and now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Geoff Turner and I talk about the federal election results in Quebec, the provinces importance in the upcoming Parliament, what will come of NAFTA 2.0 (if anything) and we look ahead

We live in an interesting time, and not always for the best reasons. Let’s face it, 2019 has been a crazy year and 2020 doesn’t promise to be much better. We live in a time where we’re not seeing the best of us as humane people on a regular basis

As we start to go into our new reality of minority government in Canada, there are many things that many observers need to pay attention to in order to stay on top of things. That’s standard operating procedure in minority governments and has been ever seen Confederation, but this time

Now that we have entered into November and with a couple of weeks before the Liberals name their new cabinet, the parties are starting to put the pieces back together. They are looking ahead at the next Parliament and asking a lot of questions about their own performances, their future

With the 43rd General Election now a week in our collective rear view mirrors, many people are doing a lot of thinking about what happened during the campaign and what the results all mean. It’s part of our nature to pick through the entrails of the results, look over the

Yesterday I had the chance to join Kristy Cameron on “Ottawa Now” on CFRA with Kate Harrison and Shane Mackenzie. We talked about the return of the Ontario Legislature, the new tone from the Ford Government, if it will result in a different choices and the state of Andrew Scheer’s

The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is recorded and now up. Every Friday Bluesky Strategy Group will be releasing a new episode where we’ll talk about the events of the week and give perspectives from across the spectrum. In this episode Alyson Fair, Neil Brodie, Hussain Shorish

It’s been a few days now since the 43rd General Election came to an end and we’ve started to come to terms with our new political reality. We’ve got a new minority Parliament, one that looks like it won’t be coming back anytime soon, but we’re seeing things start to

Yesterday I had the chance to join Graham Richardson on CFRA’s “News and Views”, along John Delacourt and Garry Kellar. We talked the results of the 43rd General Election, the political futures of the party leaders, some of the promises made and much more! It was a long one and

Well after 40 days and 40 nights of the 43rd General Election, we now know what the next little while will look like. The broad strokes of the results last night (a Liberal minority government, a Conservative opposition, the return of the Bloc and the NDP where they ended) were

This afternoon I had the chance to join Evan Solomon on “The Evan Solomon Show” with Jenni Byrne and Shane Mackenzie. Today we talked about Election Day, the end of the 43rd General Election, what in this campaign was over-hyped and overplayed and more. You can listen to the audio

This morning I had the chance again to join Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We talked Election Day, the end of this campaign, what we are looking at tonight and what disappointed us during this campaign. You can

Election Day is finally here folks. Congrats for making to the end of this after finally after all of this we’ll finally know what our next Parliament will look like. And after tonight, the next set of political dramas will start, depending on the results of course. But I’ll get

This afternoon I had the chance to join Bill Carroll on “The Bill Carroll Show” with Jason Lietaer and Lindsay Maskell. Today e talked about the last week of the 43rd General Election, the Conservatives false claims of other parties wanting to raise the GST and more. You can listen

For those who read here on a regular basis you’ll probably have noticed something about me: I’m a complete poli-geek, and proudly so. As someone whose spent a lot of time working on campaigns, I’m always in learning new things, new techniques, new tactics and seeing new technologies brought into

The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is recorded and now up. Every Friday during the campaign we’ll be releasing a new episode where we’ll talk about the events of the week and give perspectives from across the partisan spectrum In this episode Neil Brodie, Rafi Brass and

As we go into the last few days of this campaign there have been many interesting subplots running through out it that have been hard to ignore. A big one of those has been the Green Party and if they were ready for prime time. Here at this blog I’ve