Author: Cam Holmstrom

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

This afternoon I had the chance to join Rob Snow on CFRA’s “News and Views”, along Melissa Lantsman. We talked about potential coalitions, what this close race could mean at the finish and the last week of the 43rd General Election. You can listen to the audio below. Enjoy!

Here we are on October 15th, a grand total of six days to go before Election Day and we know what Canadians will have chosen for their Parliament to look like. And after three quarters of a campaign where the polls barely moved, finally things have started to break loose,

This afternoon I had the chance to join Bill Carroll on “The Bill Carroll Show” with Jason Lietaer and Gabriela Gonzales. We talked about the release of the NDP and Conservative election platforms, the potential election discussion around the Thanksgiving dinner table and more. You can listen to the audio

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 Geoff Turner, Neil Brodie and

Last night marked the fourth and final debate of the 43rd General Election, with the French Leaders Commission Debate in Gatineau. it was the last chance to see all the six leaders together, to hear about their views and probably most importantly, for them to leave a lasting impression on

Here we are at Day 30 of the 40 day 43rd General Election and tonight we’ll see the last big showdown of this campaign, the French language Leaders Debate. While the audience tonight will be different, as will the stakes, there’s still a lot that can come from this last

As we enter the last two weeks of the 43rd General Election, we’ve reached a point where you have a good idea about how the parties are doing, who has some momentum and who is having a rougher go. While the polling numbers continue to stay relatively static, there are

Last nights English Leaders Commission Debate was a night that so many people had circled on their calendar for a long time now. In a campaign that has seen static polls, lots of mud slinging and policy taking a back seat for the most part, many people were wondering if

Tonight I had the chance to join the folks at iPolitics.ca to take part in their live English Leaders Debate coverage. Along with Quitto Maggi, Yaroslav Baran, Sheamus Murphy, Nasha Brownridge, Jolson Lim and host Heather Bakken we did a pre-debate preview and a post-debate round up of everything we

This afternoon I had the chance to join Evan Solomon on his nationwide “The Evan Solomon Show” with Jenny Byrne and Gabriella Gonzalez. We previewed tonight’s big English Leaders Debate, what to expect from each leader, what they needed to avoid and the peculiarity of having six candidates on the

Tonight is one of the biggest moments of this electoral campaign, with the English Leaders Debate, and in the run up to it tonight, we’re seeing the parties putting out materials to go after their opponents. For example, we saw the Conservatives put out a press release where they call

As we go into the upcoming English Leaders Debate, there are many things that we will be looking for. But one of the things that I will be looking for will be the approach taken by Green leader Elizabeth May, who she will go after and the tone of her

As we enter the last two weeks or so of this General Election campaign, it’s very interesting to see where the leaders are going and spending their time. Where they go says a lot about how their campaigns are going, if they are on the offensive trying to pick up

The newest episode of the Magpie Brûlé Podcast is now up and available for download. In this episode I review the week that was in Canadian politics, the TVA debate, what it meant for the campaign, looks ahead to the Leader’s Commission Debates on Monday and Thursday and what it

As I’ve noted here about this campaign, there hasn’t been a lot of new policy or ideas that have been brought to the fore. This hasn’t been a campaign about ideas as much as it has been about recycling them, which has just felt weird. But despite all of that,

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 Tim Barber, Neil Brodie I