{"id":6407,"date":"2025-09-08T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:16","slug":"laura-kurkimaki-weighs-in-on-poilievres-future-in-carleton-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2025\/laura-kurkimaki-weighs-in-on-poilievres-future-in-carleton-riding\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Kurkimaki Weighs in on Poilievre&#8217;s Future in Carleton Riding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Laura Kurkimaki Weighs in on Poilievre&#8217;s Future in Carleton Riding\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Pierre Poilievre may have solid roots in Alberta, but his political future in Ontario\u2019s Carleton riding is far from certain. Speculation swirls over whether the Conservative leader will return to reclaim his longtime seat or shift his focus westward. The Hill Times article <em>Bound to Alberta? <\/em>highlights the perspective of MPM alumna <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/people\/laura-kurkimaki\/\">Laura Kurkimaki<\/a>, whose voice adds depth to the discussion, offering not only a look at Poilievre\u2019s next move, but also a deeper understanding of the local reactions and broader political dynamics shaping Canada\u2019s next campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article online &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/story\/2025\/08\/27\/bound-to-alberta-poilievre-has-yet-to-commit-to-reclaiming-carleton-next-election\/471308\/\">Bound to Alberta? Poiliever has yet to commit to reclaiming Carleton next election &#8211; The Hill Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Poilievre may have solid roots in Alberta, but his political future in Ontario\u2019s Carleton riding is far from certain. Speculation swirls over whether the Conservative leader will return to reclaim his longtime seat or shift his focus westward. The Hill Times article Bound to Alberta? highlights the perspective of MPM alumna Laura Kurkimaki, whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}