Sentences with phrase «[federal election campaign»

The National Party ran a television ad 186 times that used the song «Eminem Esque» during its successful 2014 election campaign before pulling the ad off the air.

Last month, my fellow columnist Mike Moffatt published a list of the Canadian economic indicators that will influence the election campaign.

In a congratulatory phone call the night of Paul's primary victory, McConnell pledged his support to the newcomer for the general election campaign.

Throughout his 2016 election campaign, Trump routinely threatened to impose a 45 percent across - the - board tariff on Chinese goods as a way to level the playing field for American workers.

And after many peaks and valleys during the 2016 election campaign, this relationship will reach a metaphorical peak when Kelly interviews Trump on Tuesday night as part of a prime - time Fox Broadcasting special.

The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

If you've grown resentful of the never - ending 2015 election campaign, and you feel like punishing the next candidate you see, here's a suggestion: Ask him or her whether he or she thinks the Bank of Canada should continue using the core inflation rate as its North Star.

But the Israeli government remains defiant about maintaining its freedom of action to make war on Iran, and it is counting on the influence of right - wing extremist views in U.S. politics to bring pressure to bear on Obama to fall into line with a possible Israeli attack during the election campaign this fall....

An 11 - week election campaign will be the longest in decades, and begins amid mixed economic signals

In first promise of the official 2015 federal election campaign, Stephen Harper said the Conservatives would increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000 and expand the program to include a third and fourth year of training.

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

The faux - election campaign continued this week as the Prime Minister allocated an extra $ 714 million to drought - affected farmers and $ 65 million for cancer scanners.

At the start of last year's federal election campaign, Bardish Chagger left Waterloo, Ont., for an out - of - town meeting.

Over the course of the primaries and general election campaign, my role continued to evolve.

A central force behind this year's midterm election campaign is neither a political party nor a candidate.

That marked a break from the Conservative pledge under former Prime Minister David Cameron in a 2015 election campaign not to raise income tax, national insurance contributions or VAT.

However, the Justice Department's appointment of ex-FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged ties between Russia and Trump's election campaign team appeared to soothe investor concerns and supported Wall Street in Thursday's session.

Hawley's inquiry comes amid withering public and political backlash against Facebook for its role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to access information about its users and to possibly influence the 2016 presidential election campaign.

-- Toward the end of the Federal election campaign, gas prices proved a final sticking point.

One of the major problems with Australian politics at both the state and federal level is taxpayer funding of election campaigns.

Stephen Harper spent the election campaign asking Canadians for a majority to ensure the country's economic stability.

Premier Clark spent the election campaign expounding her dream of a debt - free B.C. fueled by resource - driven economic growth.

Nonetheless, Campbell acknowledged the «loud commentary» during the recent election campaign with regard to bank fees.

Besides, the 2013 election campaign featured no discussion of tax restructuring, so the government doesn't seem to have a political mandate to tackle any serious structural reforms.

U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns that Moscow might use the firm's products to attack American computer networks, a particularly sensitive issue given allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia hacked and leaked emails of Democratic Party political groups to interfere in the 2016 presidential election campaign.

President Trump's perpetual election campaign is offering donors the chance to have their names flashed on the screen during the livestream — on Trump's website — of his State of the Union address.

Lowe's underestimated the protectionist undercurrent running throughout the provincial election campaign when it tried to take over Boucherville, Que.

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz told reporters on July 13 that the U.S. election campaign likely was among the factors causing executives to hoard their profits.

Going door - to - door during election campaigns can be gruelling, yet the veteran politician reportedly took delight in task.

Peter Holmes is president and creative director at Toronto's Reason Partners, an advertising and marketing firm that has worked on everything from consumer goods and financial services to political campaigns, including the Conservative Party's 2008 election campaign.

One lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity because the proposal is still under discussion, said he believed that U.S. - sourced proposal would have to be at least 35 % to satisfy Trump, who railed against automakers for moving jobs to Mexico throughout his election campaign last year.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

However, he wouldn't rule out the possibility that a deal could get done soon — possibly in the midst of an election campaign.

The French presidential election campaign is not the first to be overshadowed by accusations of manipulation via computer hacking and cyber-attacks.

When I went through it, the «no» option was already checked on questions about whether I'm blind or whether I want to donate $ 3 to the presidential election campaign fund.

Bollore fell 6 percent after French police questioned billionaire Vincent Bollore over allegations his group worked on the election campaigns of presidential candidates in two African countries in return for lucrative port contracts.

All along, the rhetoric has focused less on policy than on Campbell's reversal on the HST issue since the 2009 election campaign, and the extension of sales taxes to services the PST overlooked.

A specialist EU team that detects and counters Russian cyberattacks, the East Stratcom Task Force, has reported an increase in campaigns aimed at aggravating the crisis, in what is a clear echo of the charges made against Russia in the U.S. election campaign last year, and the French and German election campaigns this year.

As such, the document marked both the belated return of Parliament and the unofficial start to a federal election campaign that is still two years away.

Yet during the October 2008 election campaign, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty flatly asserted, «We will not run a deficit.»

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne went into a 40 - day election campaign facing a Red Sea of troubles: a massive $ 12.5 - billion deficit, several spending scandals and a police investigation that reached all the way to the premier's office.

Perhaps I missed that policy announcement in their election campaign.

Yuval came to Fortune from Newsweek, where he wrote for both the print and Web editions and edited the special online election campaign coverage in 2000.

PARIS, April 24 (Reuters)- French police questioned billionaire Vincent Bollore on Tuesday over allegations his Groupe Bollore worked on the election campaigns of presidential candidates in Africa in return for lucrative port contracts.

The Cambridge Analytica issue was the reason Zuckerberg was on Capitol Hill, answering questions for the second time in two days about how the group - which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign among its clients - got hold of data on many millions of Facebook users.

«We are watching very carefully the election campaign in this country,» Kislyak said Tuesday at a discussion of bilateral affairs at Johns Hopkins University's campus in Washington.

Wikileaks published over 20,000 emails stolen from the election campaign of French President, Emmanuel Macron, on Monday morning along with a tool to search the documents.

Trump's election campaign had offered to pay to have an emoji, or small picture, that would show up on tweets during the second presidential debate anytime Twitter users tweeted the phrase «#Crooked Hillary,» Republican Trump's nickname for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

This is his best opportunity of the general election campaign to change his image.