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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tried painting himself as a prime minister in waiting in an election-style speech to party faithful Friday, filling it with the messages he plans to take to Canadians, while throwing some red meat to his base. Poilievre’s address to the more than 2,500 supporters gathered for …

Tonight, the United Conservative Party will announce its new leader and Alberta’s 19th premier.  Nearly four months after the leadership contest began, one of seven contenders will emerge the victor. Close to 124,000 people bought or renewed UCP memberships by the Aug. 12 deadline to qualify to cast a vote. Party members …

Pierre Poilievre has replaced the Conservative Party’s top lawyer with his own pick, CBC News has learned, as he continues to shake up the party’s upper echelons.  The party’s legal counsel, Arthur Hamilton, has been replaced with Michael Wilson, a Poilievre ally and partner at the law firm Goodmans, according to sources. The …

Pierre Poilievre walked onto the stage of Ottawa’s Shaw Conference Centre to roaring cheers on Saturday night. His win marked the end of the Conservative Party of Canada’s leadership race and ushered in a new era for supporters across the country. Nearly 3,500 kilometres west of where Poilievre made his first …

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says his party won’t underestimate new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre after the MP won a decisive victory in the party’s leadership election. “We don’t underestimate at all … our adversaries in politics,” LeBlanc told chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton during an interview on Rosemary Barton …

Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen says she won’t be running in the next federal election, but will stay on as an MP after a new leader is selected this weekend. “Serving the constituents of Portage-Lisgar for 14 years has been the honour of my political life and I am eternally …

Conservative Party leadership candidate Scott Aitchison is condemning Leslyn Lewis’s message to members last week about the Nuremberg Code and medical experimentation as nothing but a “dog whistle” to COVID-19 vaccine critics. Aitchison made the comments in a missive sent to party members Thursday, with less than two weeks before …

An elder statesman of Canada’s conservative movement is offering a vivid warning about how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals might attack Pierre Poilievre if he wins the Conservative leadership. In an email sent to Conservative leadership campaigns and senior Conservatives earlier this month, former Reform Party leader Preston Manning …

This column is an opinion from Graham Thomson, an award-winning journalist who has covered Alberta politics for more than 30 years. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ. After weeks of heated rhetoric in the United Conservative Party leadership race, the perceived front runner, Danielle Smith, is trying …

Provided one final opportunity to publicly address the entirety of the Conservative party membership, Jean Charest wanted to make clear that he was at least physically present. “You have to show up. You have to actually show up,” he said, seated around a small table with two of his fellow …