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OTTAWA — The federal Green party has accepted an election candidate’s resignation over a social-media post in which he mused about sending pig meat to devotees of Muhammad.However, the party appears to be standing by another nominee who is being accused of belittling the Holocaust.Concerns about the candidates flared Thursday as Green Leader Elizabeth May prepared to take part in an evening campaign debate in Toronto.Erik Schomann stepped down as the party’s nominee for the Ont

Traci Pirri is a trauma counsellor, so you might assume she inherently knows how to prioritize mental health. But, while she is a therapist in her work, her struggles as a parent are the same as those many others deal with.“We have extremely limited time, spend all our money and resources on the kids, and feel selfish (or weak) about needing a reboot,” Pirri told HuffPost Canada.Finding that time is important, she said via email, because it’s hard for parents to be present with

VICTORIA — Justin Trudeau says a re-elected Liberal government would impose a national one per cent tax on properties owned by non-Canadians and non-residents in an effort to curb foreign speculation in real estate.At a campaign stop in Victoria, the Liberal leader said the tax would help deter foreigners who wish to speculate in the housing market, which has been a key contributor to a surge in home prices in some markets in recent years.The Liberals say the changes would help ease afford

OTTAWA — Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh pledged to alleviate a burgeoning health care “crisis” in Brampton, Ont., by pledging to build a new hospital, despite the province being responsible for such decisions.“We commit to building a new hospital in Brampton. We will support the funding for this hospital,” he said.Singh made the announcement in the Ontario riding Thursday on a roadside near a local hospital. But working with Progressive Conservative Premier Doug F

Canadian actress Ellen Page is mostly known for films like “Juno” and “Inception,” but she’s always been passionate about social justice. It’s no surprise, then, that her directorial debut at TIFF is an effort to make change. “There’s Something In The Water” explores the disproportionate impact environmental damage has on Black Canadian and First Nations communities in Nova Scotia.

So many of the recent headlines about children and mental health are deeply distressing: Youth suicide attempts have doubled in the last decade, some in children as young as 5 years old. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in Canadian children. Experts have argued that we’re in the midst of an epidemic of children’s mental health, and while awareness has certainly increased, only about 20 percent of kids with a diagnosable mental health disorder are actually gettin

Some parenting approaches transcend species.Raising kids to be gender-neutral has been growing in popularity, with more and more millennial parents choosing clothes and toys that don’t ascribe to gender stereotypes, and some not assigning their children genders at all. One study found that 63 per cent of Canadian millennial parents are raising gender-neutral kids!And now a wee penguin chick being raised by two penguin moms at a U.K. aquarium is joining the movement. The four-mont

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Liberals are desperately trying to “change the channel” on their own controversies by releasing a video Thursday of a Toronto Tory candidate calling for laws to restrict abortion.The edited clip, which Liberals say is from an anti-abortion event in Ottawa in 2017, features York Centre candidate Rachel Willson calling for “pro-life legislation.” In the video, Willson also calls for a “national monument to the unborn in Canada.&r

Meghan Markle stepped out Thursday for her first official royal public appearance since giving birth to Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor in May. The Duchess of Sussex headed to John Lewis’ flagship store in London for the launch of her five-piece capsule clothing collection that benefits her patronage, Smart Works.The duchess and the charity, which helps to dress and prepare women for job interviews, joined forces with Marks & Spencer, John Lewis, Jigsaw and Misha Nonoo on the&

This summer, the HuffPost Canada politics team spread out across the country to take a look at some of the ridings that could make a real difference in the outcome of this year’s campaign.  This federal election edition of HuffPost Reports is an ongoing series that looks at the people and politicians in those communities and the role they might play as Canadians head to the polls.Ontario Riding That Predicts Voting Trends Seized By Opioid Crisis Maryam Monsef faces Conservative challe

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Mike Skinner wants me to know this meeting he’s organizing is not related to his election bid. The Conservative candidate says he’s just bringing some folks from the community together to tackle a crisis they all think the province and the federal government should do more to address: opioids.It’s the end of June and the House of Commons has just wrapped up for the session. Peterborough–Kawartha is my first stop on HuffPost Canada’s electi

VICTORIA — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s election plane sustained some damage in Victoria after a media bus drove under one of its wings Wednesday night.The plane had just landed in the British Columbia capital after transporting Trudeau, his team and several journalists travelling with the campaign across the country for Day 1 of the federal election race. A bus was parked close to the plane to transport the journalists from the tarmac.As it departed, it drove under the wing

OTTAWA — “Clearly the RCMP are taking this seriously enough to start investigating individuals in the Prime Minister’s Office.”Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was eager to talk about the latest development in the ongoing saga of SNC-Lavalin as he prepared to board his campaign plane Wednesday, an issue that threatens to haunt Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau ahead of the Oct. 21 election.The Globe and Mail published a story late the night before the election was called, sa

OTTAWA — A Quebec law that bars elementary school teachers from wearing religious symbols at work dogged federal party leaders in different parts of the country Wednesday, the first official day of the election campaign.After leaders tiptoed around the issue, Quebec Premier François Legault challenged parties to come out and pledge to “never” contest Quebec’s secularism law in court.The topic crossed Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s path shortly after he met w