Independent Member of Parliament Derek Sloan announced at a major rally in Cochrane, Alberta, that he will be moving federal ridings, and provinces to run in the Banff-Airdrie riding to take on key Erin O’Toole supporter and Whip of the Conservative Party caucus, Blake Richards.

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Smith-McCrossin was projected by the polling aggregator website 338 Canada to only win 8.4 percent of the overall vote in Cumberland North and instead managed to get more than 50 percent of the vote on election night (one polling station is still yet to be fully counted).

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In a shocking political upset, the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia has won a 31 seat majority in the legislature of the Maritime province, in an election that the Nova Scotia Liberal Party was supposed to walk away with when the campaigning period started. 

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Although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative leader Erin O’Toole started the federal election campaign as both explicitly saying or indicating they were in favour of mandatory vaccinations for federal employees, both men have now backed off or softened their positions in the face of public backlash or media questions about their plans.

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Not only was Trudeau losing momentum going towards the election announcement due to Canadians disapproval of having to go back to the polls right now, but when he did drop the writ for the September 20 election, he bungled the rollout with cheap excuses for why he bothered calling the election. 

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Yesterday the Conservative Party, led by the supposedly “true blue” Erin O’Toole, removed  Jonas Smith as their candidate for the Yukon electoral riding for opposing vaccine passports and vaccine mandates on the principle that it violates civil liberties.

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It will be interesting to see in a new election, especially one called on such short notice, if newer parties like the PPC, Maverick, and the True North Party (recently started by Derek Sloan) will be able to break through due to the frustration of Canadians and especially Westerners, or if more centre-right voters will still rally behind the CPC despite moving to the left.

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The school board seems to be trying to put their decision on masks in schools onto the provinces by waiting for their guidance to avoid criticism, rather than just doing the responsible thing and following the trend in Alberta and removing the mandates.

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The whole situation seems odd to political observers, especially those who had been convinced Trudeau would be dropping the writ on a new election on Sunday. Many now don’t know if the departure of these three Liberals indicates an election is now coming sooner or if this will delay an election call until later in August or even early September.

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The warring with the Conservative Party base by ejecting Derek Sloan on the basis of a fake scandal, demoting Pierre Poilievre, and adding a carbon tax to the CPC platform, among other things, indicates O’Toole may be focused on reshaping the CPC into his own centre-left image so that, even if he loses to Trudeau, O’Toole can still keep a grip on the CPC in the aftermath of an election.

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