Author: Cam Holmstrom

As we end the month of January there has been a lot of digital ink spilled over the Conservative Leadership Race and the serious potential candidates who decided to stay out. That long list of names like Jean Charest, Rona Ambrose, Pierre Poilievre, Candace Bergen and Michael Chong has looked

Politics can be a funny thing sometimes I swear. It can surprise you, catch you off guard and while sometimes you’ll go week after week of boring nothing, other times it just keeps coming in a seemingly non-stop stream. It’s only the Thursday of the first sitting week of the

Today is Bell Let’s Talk day, an event that’s become annual opportunity to bring the discussion around the importance of mental health to the surface and raise funds towards mental health care. On this day a lot of people decide to talk about their experience, their suffering and how they

This week has marked the return of the House of Commons after their Holiday break and admittedly, it’s been a busy week so far. Between the day job, radio hits, sitting down to write a few blogs and getting to see my family in between, it’s been a robust start

In all Canadian political leadership campaigns, there are metrics and expectations that voters us to judge and assess the various candidates. There are certain things that are expected, some things that are nice to have and frankly, some other qualities that are to be avoided. And in every such campaign,

Yesterday I had the chance to join Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” with Katlyn Harrison and Shane MacKenzie. We talked about the reaction of various governments to the outbreak of CoronaVirus, the state of the Conservative Leadership race and continued labour strife in Ontario’s education sector (where I have

Last week I had the chance to take part in something a bit different. I took part in a round-table discussion hosted by the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, with colleagues representing the Liberal, Conservative, along with my representing the NDP. We had a good conversation about the political landscape of

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 expansion of CoronaVirus, Peter MacKay’s Conservative Leadership campaign launch on Saturday and how that went (or didn’t go well) & Andrew Scheer telling everyone that

As the Conservative Leadership race starts to get going, the big story so far has been about who has taken a pass rather than those getting in. And let’s face it, that’s a legitimate thing to focus on; with big names like Jean Charest, Rona Ambrose and Pierre Poilievre deciding

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