Stephen Harper Archive
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Kenney campaign takes over Alberta PC meeting while other candidates criticize his plan to unite the right
Posted on 06.11.2016 | No CommentsFormer Tory MP Jason Kenney is the lone PC leadership candidate running on a platform to merge the PCs with the fellow right-centre Wildrose party -
Just a by-election: But a nightmare for the NDP
Posted on 25.10.2016 | No CommentsIn a Monday by-election, the Conservatives run to victory. But the big story is how the opposition rallied to Trudeau. -
‘Stephen Harper’ surprisingly popular in first question period of season
Posted on 20.09.2016 | No CommentsNow Harper has resigned, all members were free to refer to the former PM by name. New Democrats seemed positively tickled to wield that name as a weapon -
Has the Conservative leadership race has reopened old divisions within the party?
Posted on 05.09.2016 | No CommentsThe race to replace Stephen Harper is opening up old schisms in the party over sensitive social issues like abortion and gay marriage -
Daphne Bramham: Accidental historian’s work researching Inuit testimony was key to finding Franklin’s lost ship
Posted on 26.08.2016 | No CommentsHad searchers paid more attention to Inuit eyewitnesses’ accounts of the ill-fated expedition, it might not have taken more than 150 years to unravel what happened -
Stephen Harper to resign from politics on Friday to launch Calgary-based consulting firm
Posted on 26.08.2016 | No CommentsHarper, 57, will launch the consulting firm, Harper and Associates, to provide strategic advice with a focus on developing international business, a source said -
Stephen Harper speaks in Calgary at Conservative Party Stampede BBQ
Posted on 10.07.2016 | No CommentsFormer prime minister Stephen Harper is speaking at the Conservative Party's Stampede BBQ in Calgary Saturday evening. -
Jason Kenney says he has Stephen Harper’s support in uniting Alberta’s right
Posted on 09.07.2016 | No CommentsJason Kenney says his Alberta leadership aspiration — which involves reuniting the province's fractured right — comes with the support of his old boss Stephen Harper. -
Michael Den Tandt: Liberals’ pragmatism makes opposition’s job tougher
Posted on 18.04.2016 | No CommentsTrudeau and his team are learning from power, course-correcting as they go. For the Tories in particular, the uphill battle gets tougher yet -
Ontario MPPs to sit until June 9 but Wynne not denying suggestion Liberals will prorogue this session
Posted on 25.03.2016 | No CommentsThe opposition believes the Liberal government might want to prorogue in order to avoid question period. 'They’re mired in waste, mismanagement and scandal' -
Wanted: Tory leadership candidates who are comfortable with their own philosophy
Posted on 29.02.2016 | No CommentsAt the Manning conference, under the heading 'If I run, here’s how I’d do it,' four serious potential candidates plus O’Leary laid down a bit of old time religion -
After a decade of ruthless message control, electoral reform could be an opportunity for Conservatives
Posted on 29.02.2016 | No CommentsAfter a decade of democratic stagnation (at best), this is exactly the sort of discussion a rebuilding Conservative party needs to relearn how to have
