Author: Cam Holmstrom

The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Geoff Turner, Neil Brodie and I talk about the latest twists and turns from this week in the Conservative Leadership Race. We also go into the return of the House of Commons next

Well it seems that this week you can’t go a few hours without some big news coming out of the Conservative Leadership race, and tonight seems to be no different. Tonight we got one big, blockbuster piece of news that has a lot of tongues in Ottawa wagging and asking

Well folks we’re getting further along in the beginning stages of the Conservative Leadership race and I think we can politely say that it’s not necessarily going to plan so far. Or at least that’s what yesterday seemed to drive home. Before yesterday we heard that maybe the biggest outside

With yesterdays news about Jean Charest’s decision to take a pass on the Conservative Party leadership, we got an answer to a big, outstanding question in the race to replace Andrew Scheer. When Scheer was pushed out the door, many of those leading the push called for their party to

With the return of the House of Commons from the holiday break coming next week and MPs flood back into Ottawa, life around here will return to a more normal pace. Overlaid onto the normal events in Ottawa will be the Conservative Leadership Race, the scuttlebutt around it and what

2020 hasn’t been off to the best start and as some had hoped that this year would be better than what 2019 turned out to be, so far many of those people have been disappointed to put it mildly. This is especially true when it comes to our politics, when

Yesterday I had the chance to join Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” with Katlyn Harrison and Colin MacDonald. We talked about the Liberal Cabinet Retreat in Winnipeg, what we might see from the government next week & the latest in the news around Prince Harry & Meghan. You can

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 current state of relations between Canada and China and how things are going at the start of the Conservative leadership race. You can listen to it all

The return of labour strife to the education sector in Ontario continued apace this week, as we saw the Ford Conservative government make no moves to get back to the table and negotiate in good faith. But we did see some developments come from that crew, moves that really made

The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Geoff Turner, Neil Brodie and I talk about the start of the Conservative Leadership Race. We go into who’s in, who’s out, who might take the plunge, the issues they face, the course

It was just on Tuesday that I wrote about the struggles that so many small rural and northern towns are facing in this day and age. In that piece, I focused on the current situation in Fort Frances, Ontario, the allegations around their dealings with the forestry company Resolute and

It’s only Wednesday but this week we’ve already seen some major news come from the Conservative Leadership race, as some big shoes start to drop and we get a better idea of what the field might look like. Given the compressed timelines, the tough rules and the stakes of this

At the start of 2020 a big focus of Canadian political observers has been leadership politics and the races that come from it. Naturally, most of that focus has been on the Conservatives, as not only at they the Official Opposition, they have had the most news and notable scuttlebutt

Canada is a big country, diverse in geography, people and economics. Some people live in big cities, others in small towns. Some of those people built cars, others taught, others still worked on their farms and some worked in the mines. As a country, we’ve gone through a lot of

A good education is the strong basis of a good future for people; that is a fact that is not in doubt. We have empirical evidence that proves it time and again, that a good education leads to better health, social and economic outcomes for people. Generation after generation, we’ve

This afternoon I had the chance to join Kristy Cameron on “Ottawa Now” with Katlyn Harrison and Shane Mackenzie. We talked about the investigation into the downing of UIA Flight 751, Sunday’s Pickering Nuclear alert incident, the effects the next moves by Harry & Meghan might have on us in

Over the past decade and a half, I’ve been blessed to get to have some amazing experiences in politics and political campaigns. I’ve had the chance to learn a lot about organizing, campaigning, media, communications, inter-personal relations, social media, sign construction and lots of other things. But in that time,

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 the Canadian investigation of UIA Flight 752, the Conservative leadership race to date and the accidental alert from a Pickering nuclear station. You can listen to it

The past two weeks have been a hard time to pay attention to the news of the World, the politics of our country, and how events and situations have brought them together to interact. The rise of tensions between the United States and Iran and the shooting down of UIA

“What You Need to Know” is back and the first episode of 2020 is now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Geoff Turner, Neil Brodie and I talk about the events of the week in the Middle East and Canada’s response to downing of Flight 752 & the death of