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The Conservative Party of Canada’s lawyers yesterday filed a second motion to dismiss the legal challenges of individual citizens seeking to overturn federal election results in seven ridings

Canadians owe the people of Greece our solidarity in the face of this overwhelming crisis. We also owe ourselves a detailed understanding of all of this.

Masses of people thronged Place de la Bastille -- symbolically representative of the French revolution -- to cheer the electoral victory May 6 of French Socialist Party candidate François Hollande.

Stephen Harper has celebrated the first anniversary of his majority by reminding Canadians of the moral tone he offers his country.

On election day in Paris, Place de la Bastille (home of the left) was full and Place de la Concorde (home of the right) was empty. As sure a sign as any that the Socialist Party was about to win.

May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year's election will be the most expensive in U.S. history.

For many years, Liberals have been eager advocates of "strategic voting" -- the idea that it makes sense to vote for a party you don't support in order to avoid the election of another party.

Let's look at the Alberta election -- a true "Dewey beats Truman" fiasco for Canada's political commentariat, which predicted victory for the Wildrose Party.

The Conservatives must think the Ekos study on robocalls in the seven contested ridings is sound. Otherwise, why attack the messenger, not the message?

France, which for decades has been split between left and right, with Presidential elections being decided 51 to 49 per cent on that basis, now is also splitting over attitudes towards Europe.

In these times, any social democrat who succeeds in making good progress ridding the world of yet another conservative government merits our respectful attention. So what did François Hollande do?

The Calgary and Edmonton battlegrounds are widely reported on but in Lethbridge, a very interesting thing is happening. For the first time in two decades there is an unsteadiness shaking the campaign.

There are at least 2,700 reasons to have an investigation into the possibility of vote moving.

The rule of the technocrats: Have democracies given too much control to bureaucrats and policy advisers? Judy Rebick joins Steve Paikin for more.

A lot has been written about the "robocall" scandal in the last few weeks. In addition to calling for a public inquiry, opposition parties have demanded expanding the powers of Elections Canada.

Marc Mayrand, the Chief Electoral Officer, tells a House Committee that robocalls are no trivial matter.

The federal budget continues Canada's legacy of paternalism towards Indigenous peoples. The Left Coast Post talks to former NDP contender Romeo Saganash.

A lot has been written about the "robocall" scandal in the last few weeks. In addition to calling for a public inquiry, opposition parties have demanded expanding the powers of Elections Canada.

As the wheels start falling off, B.C.'s Liberal government may be staggering its way to an unplanned election this fall.

Elections Canada head Marc Mayrand took a small step towards transparency when he disclosed today that 800 complaints were filed by voters about false phone calls during the 2011 federal election.

Only citizens who go to court can seek to overturn election results. That is what robocall-stung citizens are doing in seven ridings.

Cities across Canada erupted in protest in response to recent revelations that deceptive phone calls, also known as robocalls, were deployed to influence the outcome of the 2011 Canadian election.

Voters in many ridings across the country received fraudulent phone calls misdirecting them to phony polling stations. How did they know who to call?

Elections Canada has taken steps forward on disclosure, but other steps must still be taken to ensure Canada's election law is enforced fairly, properly and effectively.

Perhaps it's our Canadian modesty that prevents us from thinking we could have a scandal as big-league and important as Watergate. But that modesty may be misplaced.