Author: Cam Holmstrom

I’ve had a lot to say here in this place about the dangers of going to an election right now for the Federal Liberals and why they should have continued to govern rather than seek a majority. I’ve been talking a lot about an unsettled, tired and “at the end

During an election campaign it can be very difficult to get the medias attention, especially for smaller parties. It’s hard to get your “message of the day” covered, to get the cameras attention on you and when you do get it, you want to make the best of it. Those

The federal election campaign and yesterday felt like the first “normal” campaign day, which is mostly because it was. It was a day of campaign announcements, whistle stops and events, all the usual kinds of things you’d see once a campaign started to find it stride. The biggest difference was,

Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Kate Harrison for “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the collapse of Afghanistan, the remarks by American President Joe Biden on this, Canada’s failure regarding getting Afghan’s who worked with Canadians out of the country, what

Today I joined CTV News Channel with Marcia MacMillan along with Kate Harrison and Marcel Wieder. We talked about the start of the Federal Election, how the parties faired on the first day of the campaign, the timing of the campaign, the issues Canadians are looking to hear about and

Well folks, it’s now official and let’s put aside any of the pretense about it; Canada’s 44th General Election is on! #BREAKING: After months of speculation, the 2021 Canadian federal election is officially on.#elxn44 #cdnpoli https://t.co/6KCUoEt9m2 — Globalnews.ca (@globalnews) August 15, 2021 It’s been said that the most important steps

Tomorrow morning it will be confirmed, but it looks like we’re heading to the 44th general election in Canada, right into the growing teeth of a 4th wave of the COVID pandemic. As a result, this campaign promises to be unlike any other in Canadian history. That means it will

Well here we are, in our last 24 hours or so of federal election-less peace, before we are plunged into the 44th general election in Canada just as the fourth wave of COVID takes off. As I have pointed out elsewhere, this is an election that we don’t need and

The latest episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast is now live. In this episode, Cam & Alise talk the reports of a Federal Election being called on Sunday, the last-minute decision by some Liberal MPs to not run again, what that might say, why having this election now could be

It likely won’t shock you if I point out that we’re about to go into the 17th month of the COVID-19 pandemic. At one point, pointing out the latest new month of this pandemic would force us to snap our neck back and gawk at the thought. Yet we’re so

Here we are in the middle of August, and it increasingly looks like we’re heading into a federal election. Forget the fact that the current government doesn’t have a legitimate reason for the election. Forget the fact that we appear to be in the fourth wave of COVID, according to

Yesterday I joined CTV News Channels “True North Politics” panel with Todd van der Heyden, along with Susan Smith and Lauren McDonald. We talked about the speculation around a potential upcoming federal election, the number of incumbent MPs deciding not to run again, what the timing of those decisions could

Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Kate Harrison for “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Canada’s opening of the border to fully vaccinated Americans, when should we expect some reciprocity from the US, what upsides and risks that come with this re-opening,

he latest episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast is now live. In this episode, I am joined by my new co-host Alise Mills. We talk about the rumours of a potential Federal election, if this is the right time to go to the polls, where the different parties stand at

We’re getting closer to what appears to be an inevitable election in a couple of weeks, and just to be safe, all of the parties are getting ready to compete in it. Well, almost everyone it seems, as the drama within the Green Party continues apace. The last time I

Yesterday I joined CTV News Channels “True North Politics” panel with Jennifer Burke from Shoal Lake, Ontario, along with Susan Smith and Andrew Brander. We talked about NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s letter to the Governor General, Stephen Harper’s podcast comments and more. You can check it out below.

We’re in the dying days of July and the August long weekend is right around the corner. Given all the speculation and talk around when the next Federal election will be called, there has been an increasingly clear consensus that it will start in early or mid August. Given those

This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the installation of Mary Simon as the first Indigenous Governor General of Canada, how this is an historic moment, the promise and peril in this moment, the

When I go on the radio or TV and do my pundit thing, there’s something I say a lot (maybe too much) in many different ways that can’t seem to keep away from. It all comes back to this premise: things can change fast, and things can get crazy. I

This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed what has become the unofficial start to the next Federal election, what this all might mean for a campaign to come, how Indigenous issues may affect the