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Representatives of the media are invited to a news conference during which Bernard Genereux, Member of Parliament for Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Riviere-du-Loup, will announce on behalf of the Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of State for Canada Economic Development, the awarding of a financial contribution to the firm Grelots, Batons et Cie du ...

By-elections in any country always elicit multitudes of exotic viewpoints from pundits, politicians, and policymakers.

Whod'a thunk it 11 months ago? The newly-re-elected minority Conservative government was going through its partially self-inflicted near-death experience, threatened by a cynically opportunistic coalition of the Liberal and NDP parties backed by the Bloc Quebecois, and the notion that Stephen Harper would still be not only governing, but looking as ...

Conservatives , Tory , NDP , Quebec , Nova Scotia , Northern Saskatchewan While the Tories tried desperately to spin Monday's byelections into a referendum of Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, byelections are reflective of public opinion towards the government not the Opposition and Monday was no different.

Lysiane Gagnon Published on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 7:27PM EST Last updated on Monday, Nov.

It is surprising that the Conservative victory in a Quebec by-election this week follows months of official neglect, occasional provocation and growing indifference towards the once-favoured province on the part of the Harper government.

The Prime Minister's Quebec lieutenant suggests the Conservative Party's surprising victory in Monday's byelection is a sign that 'our party has traction in Quebec.' Public Works Minister Christian Paradis says Monday's upset win in the former Bloc Quebecois stronghold in Montmagny -L'Islet-Kamouraska-Riviere du Loup brings his dream of winning a ...

Conservative party candidate Bernard Genereux celebrates with Conservative MP Christian Paradis after winning the federal by-election in the riding of Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Riviere-du-Loup, at his headquarters of La Pocatiere November 9, 2009.

The federal Conservatives picked up two of four vacant seats in the House of Commons Monday, one of which was an upset win in Quebec over the Bloc Quebecois.

The Conservatives' surprise byelection victory in Quebec has federal parties examining the electoral tea leaves - and wondering whether Stephen Harper may have finally found the elusive route to a majority through rural Quebec.

With 86 per cent of the polls reporting, NDP candidate Donnelly, a city councillor in Coquitlam, handily beat Conservative Diana Dilworth to keep the suburban Vancouver riding.

Can you feel the excitement! Early twitter reports have the Tories winning back Bill Cassey's old riding in Cumberland Colchester.

Monday, November 9, 2009 10:41 AM Fish fight in New Westminster-Coquitlam Bill Curry T he results for New Westminster-Coquitlam will come in last tonight but the British Columbia riding is shaping up as the most hotly contested of the four by-elections taking place today.

A general election may seem far off on the horizon, but Canada's four major political parties face a test of their popularity on Monday.

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No leader of a Canadian political party has ever taken such a tumble in public opinion as Michael Ignatieff has since he told Stephen Harper his time was up on the first day of September.

What passes for humour in Ottawa Did you hear the one about The Fool on the Hill? Oh... you did.

Elections Canada has started revising the preliminary lists of electors for all polling divisions in Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley , Hochelaga , Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Riviere-du-Loup and New Westminster-Coquitlam . Preliminary lists of electors are produced using information in the National Register of Electors.

When the Liberals announced at the end of the summer they would no longer prop up Stephen Harper's Conservative government, it set off a flurry of election speculation.

"This is a tax on working people and wea TMre completely against it," said Bloc MP Jean-Yves Laforest, his party's finance critic.