Thirty-seven days later, Stephen Harper's 2008 campaign wrapped up in soggy but chi-chi West Vancouver tonight with a quick rally at a local campaign office.
Paul Hunter
So why bother flying all the way from the Maritimes — where he'd begun his day — just for that?
Two things:
Campaigns can take a lot out of you.
Susan Lunn
But there are tremendous upsides. The greatest is seeing the country, the vast nature of it, from coast to coast to coast.
It's not every day I get to wake up and see the Atlantic Ocean and end my day looking at the Pacific.
Now if I could just get some sleep.
Jack Layton hit MuchMusic today to appeal to the youth vote.
Rosemary Barton
But the most hard-hitting:
"Do you like Britney Spears?"
"Not so much," said Layton.
But he was still asked to throw to the premiere of her new video.
The name of the song: Womanizer.
And yes, Layton laughed.
Rosemary Barton
Today, reporters on Jack Layton's tour got fed turkey sandwiches.
A little taste of Thanksgiving during this election campaign.
Tim Duboyce
Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe is refusing to apologize for an outburst yesterday in which he called a Conservative candidate an "imbecile."
It happened when Luc Harvey, who is running for re-election in a Quebec City riding, showed up at a farmers' market where Duceppe was campaigning. Harvey began heckling Duceppe and saying the Bloc had accomplished nothing during the party's 18 years in Parliament.
Duceppe eventually asked his entourage to "get rid" of Harvey, calling the Conservative an "imbecile."
Paul Hunter
Prince Edward Island? Check. Fredericton? Check. Vancouver? Coming up soon.
Stephen Harper's second rally of the final day of campaigning saw about 150 people crowd into a private hangar at the Fredericton Airport just before lunchtime.
Alison Crawford
The Conservatives are on our heels!
Just as the Liberal plane was getting ready to take off from Fredericton, what do we see from our tiny oval Air Inuit windows?
A giant Air Canada jet with the word Conservateur on the side.
Rosemary Barton
First event of the last day of Jack Layton's campaign (insert reporter "Yeeha!" here).
First stop: Oshawa. A place we have already hit on this campaign once before and a riding of great significance for the NDP.
Paul Hunter
Stephen Harper's long last day is underway.
He began his final leg of campaign '08 this morning with a crowded, very noisy rally outside Charlottetown.
Conservatives hope to pick up at least one of P.E.I.'s four seats on Tuesday and have eyes on two others. They've been shut out on the Island since 1988.
