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What comes next? Post-election scenarios and the Constitution
Categories: Coalition, Conservatives, Election
The surprising increase in NDP popularity makes this election harder than usual to predict. But there are three main scenarios that could play out after election day.
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What is truth in an election campaign?
Categories: Coalition, Conservatives, Election, Liberals, NDP, Partisanship
At Reality Check we take what politicians say at face value. Maybe that's a mistake.
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The cost of being tough on crime
Categories: Conservatives, Crime, Liberals, NDP
The Conservatives have used their so-called tough-on-crime agenda to drive a wedge between themselves and their political opponents. But the issue here is cost.
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The NDP's cap-and-trade plan: Brace for sticker shock
Categories: Jack Layton, NDP
The NDP wants to curb GHG emissions and raise billions in revenue by imposing cap-and-trade on big polluters. But these costs will be passed along.
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The NDP and price of doctors
Categories: Conservatives, Health, NDP
The NDP is promising to add 1,200 doctors over the next 10 years and has a thought-out plan. But is it really accounting for all the additional costs to the health-care system?
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What comes next? Post-election scenarios and the Constitution
Categories: Coalition, Conservatives, Election
The surprising increase in NDP popularity makes this election harder than usual to predict. But there are three main scenarios that could play out after election day.
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Surgical wait times: how much progress have we really made?
Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP
Most parties - and governments - appear to believe progress has been made reducing surgical wait times. But when you look closer that may not be the case.
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The NDP crackdown on tax havens
Categories: Budget, NDP, Taxes
An NDP government would collect billions over the next four years cracking down on offshore tax havens. Problem is, most of that has already been done.
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Polling, accuracy and the contest for bragging rights
Categories: Polling
Politicians will not be the only people watching with sweaty palms as the votes are counted on Monday night. Pollsters have much riding on this campaign, too.
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UPDATE: How much for that F-35 jet in the window?
Categories: Conservatives, Liberals, Military
So how much will Canada's next generation fighter jet - the proposed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter - really cost?
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VIDEO: Costing out the NDP platform
Categories: Jack Layton, NDP, Taxes
The NDP promises to balance the budget in four years through corporate taxes and a cap-and-trade energy tax that may be overstated. Amanda Lang looks at the numbers.
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