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- The politics of Politics 2.0
- The perils of polling
- Are bank profits too high?
- Our own voice on Iraq?
- What about the Tory green plan?
- Glances at the Conservative platform
- Comparative Platformology 101
- A new twist on Senate reform?
- CBC funding: thank you, Mr. Harper
- Voter turnout: democracy's dirty little secret
- The Conservative platform
- Debate night: who was right, almost right, and wrong
- Has the Conservative stand on Afghanistan changed?
- Kyoto
- Dion vs. Harper on the economy
- Medicare mystery
- The OECD: A club to beat Harper with?
- Hot air
- Guns and youth crime
- Culture controversy resurfaces in debate
- The economy: The 'fundamentals' argument
- Elizabeth May at the leaders' table
- The NDP and the deficit
- Unproductive Harper?
- Quebec's uncertain role
- Layton's limited view on corporate taxes
- The NDP's peace dividend
- The NDP and Afghanistan: Turn it over to the UN
- Conservatives crackdown on false advertising
- Who's really leading in the race for female representation
- Flaherty, McCallum were right; but who was really right?
- The daily photo-op
- Close look at conditional sentencing
- The uneasy mix of crime, punishment and politics
- Corporate taxes: too high or not high enough?
- Between the planks in the Liberal platform
- How green is my choo-choo?
- Here's spending with you, kid
- The Scandinavian carbon tax experience
- The Green party's surprising income tax splitting plan
- How many votes does it really take to get into the House of Commons?
- Can Stephen Harper pull off his cherished Senate reform?
- Are deficits in our near future?
- Harper taking on Williams with eyes open
- Duceppe's election duty: bring up Constitution
- Is that an endorsement, premier?
- Most treading carefully on Afghanistan withdrawal
- Stephane Dion's missing century
- What exactly is a carbon neutral campaign?
- 'Ferocious' job losses?
- Leaders' debates: Who is allowed in
- Tax Freedom Day
- Will Stephane Dion really raise the GST?
About the Authors
Ira Basen joined CBC Radio in 1984 and was senior producer at Sunday Morning and Quirks and Quarks. He was involved in the creation of three network programs The Inside Track (1985), This Morning (1997) and Workology (2001), and produced the award- winning radio documentary series Spin Cycles (2007). He has also written for Saturday Night, the Globe and Mail and the Walrus. He taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, and Ryerson. He is a co-author of the Canadian edition of The Book of Lists (Knopf, 2005).
John Gray has worked for a number of Canadian newspapers, including most recently more than 20 years with the Globe and Mail, where he served as Ottawa bureau chief, national editor, foreign editor, foreign correspondent and national correspondent
Mark Gollom has been a news writer for CBCNews.ca since 2003. He's worked as a reporter at the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen and the Toronto Sun. Mark has a degree in political science from the University of Western Ontario and a diploma in journalism from Centennial College in Toronto.
Related:
Election issues: where the parties stand
Party platforms: Ira Basen on the campaign pledges that made a difference
Ira Basen: 'There oughta be a law'
The National: Reg Sherren reports on economic fundamentals
The National: Terry Milewski on carbon offsets
The National: Terry Milewski investigates the GST controversy
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