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Another counting of noses.

A fresh off the press Postmedia/Leger poll.

For what it’s worth, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberals have a nine-point lead over Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives.

The Conservatives are up two points from the last nosecount but the Carney Liberals are up four points.

Pierre Poilievre is about to ask for something no Conservative leader has been granted by the party for more than 20 years: a second chance.
On Friday night, thousands of party members will vote on whether he should stay on as leader after losing the April election.

The party’s constitution mandates a leadership review when it fails to win a federal vote. Mr. Poilievre is expected to win far more than the simple majority of votes that the constitution also requires for him to remain.

Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre faces a crucial test of his leadership this week, but what lies ahead is a bigger challenge: convincing Canadians that he is the best person to guide the country through its uncertain future.

Party delegates will vote on whether Poilievre should remain leader on Friday at the Conservative convention in Calgary. It is part of an automatic review that is triggered after an election loss – in this case, Poilievre’s defeat last April.

Poilievre appears to have wide support heading into the convention, party members have told the BBC, and is expected to win handily.

As the Conservatives prepare for their annual convention in Calgary this weekend, hostile voices are trying to undermine them. They are being told to be less hard-edged, to reject populism, to be respectable “team players.”

Yet rejecting populism would be a disaster, one that would destroy all the rebuilding accomplished by the party since 2022. Roughly four in 10 Canadians back the party, and the base itself is strongly supportive of leader Pierre Poilievre.

Much of this week and next week will see Conservative Party partisans gathering in Calgary at the party convention and in Ottawa to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Stephen Harper’s election and swearing-in as Canada’s 22nd prime minister.

These will be two weeks for Canada’s conservative movement, filled with reflections on past successes and examining today’s challenges. Much of the discussion will revolve around the lessons that can be learned from the successes of the Harper victory of 20 years ago and what can be ported forward to 2026, as conservatives aspire to earn the privilege of governing Canada again.

What kind of conservative is Pierre Poilievre, exactly? It’s a question lots of Canadians were asking a little over a year ago, when the Conservative Party Leader looked almost certain to become Canada’s 24th Prime Minister. Commentators analyzed his every move; political scientists theorized about his coalition; critics warned about his populist brand of conservatism.

Then things changed, upended by a U.S. President who seems intent on blowing up not just Canadian politics, but the entire world order. And after a historic Liberal comeback, many of those same people have now written Mr. Poilievre off as a man whose moment has passed. A little less than a year after what was predicted to be a coronation, he now faces a party leadership review.

OTTAWA — It’s weeks into a new year and U.S. President Donald Trump is everywhere, again.

Not just everywhere, but on stage at a gathering of world elites, where he reinforced to the crowd of political leaders and the investor class that had descended on the Swiss town of Davos of his desires to make Greenland his own.

OTTAWA — New research shows there are deep divides between Conservative supporters and the rest of the country — a finding Tory grassroots will grapple with when they gather at their party’s national convention in Calgary next week.

The numbers also suggest the Conservative coalition largely believes the party should hold the line when it comes to standing by their principles, even if doing so makes it harder to topple more than a decade of Liberal rule.

It’s going to take a lot of Canadians waking up and realizing they’ve been treated like serfs by Carney’s Liberal Party.

One of the reasons for this is that it takes deep-diving into everything Carney, his bank governor role here, his expedient move to the UK after press found out Liberals were wooing him for leader instead of Trudeau, his UK decisions, his UN climate role, his role at GFANZ,… https://t.co/OmGX9lUXdu

— Terry Newman (@TLNewmanMTL) January 21, 2026

The Conservative Party of Canada has confirmed that Pierre Poilievre will not run in the Battle River-Crowfoot riding in the next federal election.

The party leader lost his long-held seat in the Ontario riding of Carleton in April’s federal election to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy.

The CPC confirmed on Tuesday that Damien Kurek — who held the Battle River-Crowfoot seat previously — would run in the riding again in the next election.

A little odd.

OTTAWA—When party faithful gather at the Conservative convention in Calgary later this month, they’ll be thinking about a lot more than Pierre Poilievre’s leadership vote.

Tory grassroots will also be sinking their teeth into meaty debates as they work to update the party’s constitution and policy book.

While party leaders are not forced to include policies adopted at the convention in future election campaigns, a refreshed policy blueprint can solidify a party’s identity: something the Conservatives need after their fourth straight election loss.

Pierre Poilievre is surely looking forward to what 2026 will bring. But while the new year may still be in its infancy, there are two pressing matters he needs to deal with right off the bat.

First, he faces a mandatory leadership review at the Conservative Party’s national convention in Calgary from Jan. 29-31. A few left-leaning political commentators have attempted to turn this into a big deal. They point to a Dec. 11, 2025 Angus Reid Institute survey that showed only 58 per cent of “recent Conservative voters” want him to stay on as leader in the next election. That survey doesn’t tell the whole story, however. There’s a big difference between the views of loyal Conservative party members, who are strongly behind Poilievre, and the unreliable, ever-shifting allegiances of Canadian voters. The former group, and not the latter, will ultimately decide Poilievre’s fate.