Author: Cam Holmstrom

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

In every country and region there are politicians and public figures who become such big figures that it becomes hard to think of that place without them coming up. In Canada, every province can point to some of these larger than life characters, the impact they made and the legacy

As we start into 2020 every federal party is in a different spot. While the Liberals get ready to govern with their new minority and fewer MPs, the Greens and Conservatives are starting into leadership races to set their courses for the future. The Bloc Quebecois is happy to be

Having worked on Parliament Hill, one of the cool things about working in that environment is that sometimes you meet people you might never have or get exposed to cool ideas that you never probably hear of. In my opinion, that phenomena comes down to three factors. One is having

As this first full week of 2020 has unfolded, we’ve seen a lot going on all around the World. But at home, we’ve seen more and more names come out of the woodwork about who will run for the Conservative leadership. On Monday, it was the little known Bryan Brulotte.

Yesterday we saw the first person announce that they were going to take the leap into the Conservative Leadership race, with little known Bryan Brulotte stepping forward. It was a mixed bag of a first day for the “Insiders Outsider”, as I’m putting it for now. While he made the

This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Geoff Norquay. We talked about events of the past week in the Middle East, the aftermath and impact on Canadians, Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland, and who will be the next

This week promises to be a busy one in Canadian politics, especially in regard to the Conservatives leadership race. With only a matter of days to decide if candidates are getting in or out of the race, we should start to see some announcements this week and see who has

2020 is a few days old and as this new year and decade start, there’s a lot to look ahead to in Canadian politics, including people who will have a big impact on what will happen. While some people who had a big impact on the year that just passed

Timing, what a thing it can be. It was just yesterday afternoon that I wrote an admittedly long-winded piece on leadership races, their rules and how I thought they should be done. What kicked that off was the opining of Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner on Twitter about what her

As I mentioned in yesterdays piece, over the Holidays there have been some interesting discussions happening out there in our politics, with interesting debates being sparked again. One of those debates is about how parties should run their leadership races, the rules that should be in place and the principles

Happy New Years and welcome to 2020 everyone. Over this holiday period it’s been a good time to take some time with family, reconnect and do some deeper thinking. We’ve seen a fair bit of that last part happening from some of the political community, with a couple interesting developments