Sentences with phrase «liberal leadership candidate»

Failed Liberal leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy have joined with some Liberal MPs to sue the National Post and one of its columnists Jonathan Kay for libel.

On that note, in January, Finkle helped negotiate a deal to have the Toronto Star to publish federal Liberal leadership candidate Deborah Coyne's memoir in the newspaper, with an excerpt online and a PDF version for the Star Store.

Christy Clark, B.C. Liberal leadership candidate: «This isn't the final decision as far as I am concerned.»

Christy Clark, B.C. Liberal leadership candidate: «At the political level, they see how dumb this decision is, so I think there's an appetite to change it.»

B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Christy Clark promised to exert political pressure on Ottawa to reverse their decision as a central plank of her «Families First» agenda.

VICTORIA — B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Michael de Jong must think people in B.C. have forgotten 16 years of B.C. Liberal neglect on housing, child care and education as he announces things he refused to deliver while he was the minister of finance.

VICTORIA — B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Michael de Jong must think people in B.C. have forgotten 16 years of B.C. Liberal neglect on housing, child care and education as he announces things he refused to deliver while he was the...

The StarPhoenix - Burton says Liberals need to reach the grassroots Federal Liberal leadership candidate Alex Burton says a grassroots campaign is the key to rebuilding the party and forms a large part of his bid for the post.

Parksville Qualicum News - Liberal Hopeful on the Hustings Alex Burton knows he doesn't have the name recognition of a Justin Trudeau, but the federal Liberal leadership candidate hopes his recently - completed cross-Canada RV tour will start to change that.

On International Anti-Corruption Day, there are a number of questions raised for Liberal leadership candidate and political insider Christy Clark.

Brantford Expositor - Federal Liberals urged to regain voice Federal Liberal leadership candidate Alex Burton visits Brantford on... Read More

, but whatever happens in the end, and regardless of whether the coalition loses its nerve, given Mr. Harper's unilateral delay of the confidence vote (contrary to his readiness to hold «confidence» votes in the last Parliament, taking advantage of the Liberals» reluctance to go to the polls), and whether the Liberal leadership candidates can indeed work together, the last week or so has been a wonderful lesson — and reminder — about our system of government and its constitutional cleverness.

Not exact matches

The Sudbury Star - Federal Liberal candidate pays visit You may not have heard of Alex Burton, but the candidate for the federal Liberal Party leadership is confident that will change in the next six months... Read More

The Daily News - Kamloops - Trudeau casts Liberals in poor light, candidate says Trudeau might be the star of the federal Liberal leadership race, but his criticisms of Alberta prove he's not the only candidate for the job, hopeful Alex Burton said Friday... Read More

Justin Trudeau's Liberal leadership rival Burton says «Just watch me» Another candidate for the federal Liberal leadership rode his motor home through the streets of Toronto this morning.

HQ Cowichan Valley - Federal Liberal Leadership Candidate Visits Cowichan One day after Vancouver MP Joyce Murray announced she is running for the federal Liberal leadership, another candidate from Vancouver made a stop in the Cowichan Valley to spread the word he's vying for the top LibCandidate Visits Cowichan One day after Vancouver MP Joyce Murray announced she is running for the federal Liberal leadership, another candidate from Vancouver made a stop in the Cowichan Valley to spread the word he's vying for the top Libcandidate from Vancouver made a stop in the Cowichan Valley to spread the word he's vying for the top Liberal job.

EMC Perth - Federal Liberal leadership contestant touches down in Perth, Vancouver lawyer Alex Burton running as «outside Ottawa bubble» candidate The federal Liberal leadership race came to town on Monday... Read More

Leader - Post - Liberal leadership hopefuls march through Saskatchewan Visiting Regina, Swift Current and Moose Jaw earlier last week was candidate Alex Burton... Read More

As the B.C. Liberal leadership hopefuls gather in Prince George this evening, the record shows that none of the leading candidates would be able to offer British Columbians the type of change that people are clamouring for.

Liberal Democrats are worried about the national party's willingness to embrace centrist / moderate congressional candidates, who might, if they're elected, feel inclined to buck the party leadership and stray from its policy agenda.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, has joined these calls, as have the interim Labour Leader Harriet Harman and all the candidates in the Labour leadership contest.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.

Candidates for the leadership must be MPs and they must be proposed by 10 % of Liberal Democrat MPs — not including themselves.

The Labour leadership candidate, who has built his campaign on his ability to attract votes from the Liberal Democrats, said he would «make sure he is punished at the ballot box» for joining government with the Conservatives.

Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk, has announced that he will not stand for the leadership of his party, saying it risks becoming out of touch with the public over Brexit and leaving Vince Cable the only declared candidate so far.

Amid the clamour surrounding several of the likely candidates to run for the Liberal Democrat leadership, one name keeps being whispered in the background: Charles Kennedy.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

Charles Kennedy's Liberal Democrat leadership campaign gathered more momentum yesterday after Don Foster, the only other candidate in favour of the party's continued cooperation with Labour, stood down from the contest.

The «debacle» of the Liberal Democrats» U-turn on university tuition fees «massively undermined» voters» trust in the party, one of its leadership candidates has said.

NEW YORK — Bernie Sanders, the Vermont U.S. senator who stoked liberal passions nationwide as a Democratic candidate in last year's presidential contest, stepped into New York politics for a day on Monday, casting first - term Mayor Bill de Blasio as the antidote to the «un-American» leadership of President Trump.

But Liberal Democrat leadership candidate and environment spokesperson Chris Huhne said the talks had produced a «score draw» rather than a victory.

· Nick Clegg MP is the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman and a candidate in the party leadership contest

Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Nick Clegg laid out the values informing his campaign today with an attack on the «Sat - Nav politics» of Labour and the Conservatives.

Also declaring family lobbying links are Tory MP Sir Alan Haselhurst, whose daughter is a director at the consultancy Blue Rubicon; and the unsuccessful Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Norman Lamb, whose son works as a researcher at the lobbying firm GK Strategy.

... the teachers» union leadership opposed any alternative candidate to the governor in last year's election, from the mild - mannered liberal Democrat Zephyr Teachout who challenged Cuomo in the party primary, to the radical Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, who is himself a former New York City teacher.

Given his increasing profile and popularity within the party due to his role as the manifesto chair, he was seen as a probable candidate for the social liberal grouping's vote in the future leadership election.

«The Canadian liberals engaged all their registered supporters — their voters — as well as their members in leadership elections and candidate selection.

The Liberal Democrat leadership candidate fears plans for new waiting time targets for people with conditions such as anxiety and depression to access treatment will be scrapped unless ministers plough # 3.5 bn into mental health over the next five years.

In a certain sense, everything else is secondary: as long as we stay north of 40 per cent, it won't matter to the party leadership - in the short - term, anyway - if the Liberals end up with 30 and Labour with 20, or vice-versa (though it will matter a great deal to individual candidates).

He is a potemtial candidate for the leadership of our Liberal Party in Canada, and although it is a long shot, a future Prime Minister of Canada.

The PQ in Quebec called on the provincial Liberal government to do such, as did at least one Conservative leadership candidate.

Given heightened prominence during the recent U.S. election, it has since become a growing concern in Europe and even Canada, where a campaign manager for a federal Conservative Party leadership candidate admitted recently to publishing a fake article online to rile the «left» about the supposed «billions» the Liberal Party was spending on international aid.