Reality Check

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What is truth in an election campaign?

Categories: Coalition, Conservatives, Election, Liberals, NDP, Partisanship

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The cost of being tough on crime

Categories: Conservatives, Crime, Liberals, NDP

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The NDP's cap-and-trade plan: Brace for sticker shock

Categories: Jack Layton, NDP

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The NDP and price of doctors

Categories: Conservatives, Health, NDP

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What comes next? Post-election scenarios and the Constitution

Categories: Coalition, Conservatives, Election

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Surgical wait times: how much progress have we really made?

Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP

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The NDP crackdown on tax havens

Categories: Budget, NDP, Taxes

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Polling, accuracy and the contest for bragging rights

Categories: Polling

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UPDATE: How much for that F-35 jet in the window?

Categories: Conservatives, Liberals, Military

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VIDEO: Costing out the NDP platform

Categories: Jack Layton, NDP, Taxes

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Attacking the NDP: killers of child care and raisers of taxes

Categories: Child care, Conservatives, Elizabeth May, Jack Layton, Liberals, NDP, Taxes

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More polling: methodology, online surveys, Nick Clegg

Categories: Election, Polling

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Polling and 'the NDP surge'

Categories: Election, Jack Layton, Polling

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The National Pharmaceutical Strategy: a 'prescription unfilled'

Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP

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Union support for Conservative budget? Sort of.

Categories: Budget, Conservatives

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Conservative promise to speed up deportations

Categories: Conservatives, Crime

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NDP charge: the Liberals oppose pharmacare. Really?

Categories: Health, Liberals, NDP

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VIDEO: Unemployment and what the parties are promising

Categories: Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, Unemployment

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Food safety: the forgotten issue?

Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP

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Conservative ad: The Liberals and human smuggling

Categories: Conservatives, Crime, Immigrants, Liberals

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Ken Dryden playing "fast and loose" with the facts? Or, being misquoted?

Categories: Conservatives, Liberals

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VIDEO: Tough on crime? The NDP platform

Categories: Crime, Jack Layton, NDP

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NDP targets Ignatieff on abortion issue

Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP, Women

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Liberal ad: Stephen Harper versus the Canada Health Act

Categories: Conservatives, Election, Liberals

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VIDEO: Spending controls for the G8

Categories: Auditor General, Coalition, Conservatives

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Debate night scrapbook, two passes and a bunch of fails

Categories: Conservatives, Gilles Duceppe, Jack Layton, Leaders' debate, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper

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A campaign compendium of coalition quotes

Categories: Coalition, Gilles Duceppe, Jack Layton, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper

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Who wants to charge a $75 iPod tax? Uh, no one

Categories: Coalition, Conservatives, Liberals, Taxes

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AUDIO: Does cutting the deficit mean cutting programs

Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Taxes

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Family reunification: Still waiting for mom and dad

Categories: Conservatives, Immigrants, Leaders' debate, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper

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Temporary foreign workers: why so many all of a sudden?

Categories: Conservatives, Immigrants, Jack Layton, Stephen Harper

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The auditor general's report: who's got it, who doesn't

Categories: Auditor General, Election, Leaders' debate

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Immigration spat: Who is being let in and why?

Categories: Conservatives, Immigrants

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How did we get here? A matter of debate

Categories: Conservatives, Contempt, Election, Leaders' debate, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper

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Fact-checking the leaders' debate

Categories: Leaders' debate

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$11 billion is a big hole

Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Liberals

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NDP promise: Keeping corporate tax rate below the U.S.

Categories: Jack Layton, Taxes

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VIDEO: Help for seniors, parsing the NDP platform

Categories: Jack Layton, Seniors

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Conservatives: Health funding 'at an all-time high'

Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals

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The "Ignatieff-led Coalition" and its "soft-on-crime agenda"

Categories: Conservatives, Crime, Liberals

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Pardon me? Once more on the soft-on-crime allegation

Categories: Conservatives, Crime, Liberals

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VIDEO: Cutting the deficit sooner, the new Tory promise

Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Stephen Harper

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Platform comparison: the policies in common

Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, Seniors

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The Conservatives and health-care transfers

Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Health, Stephen Harper

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VIDEO: Why people are being turned away from Tory events

Categories: Conservatives, Partisanship

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Loans for immigrant professionals seeking accredition

Categories: Conservatives, Immigrants

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The Liberals and gun control: curbing their enthusiasm?

Categories: Crime, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff

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Video: The Liberal 'red book' platform

Categories: Budget, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff

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Oh John Baird, he stands on guard for Harper

Categories: Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Partisanship, Stephen Harper

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Tax breaks for volunteer firefighters - less than meets the eye

Categories: Budget, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper

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Cute but unoriginal: Michael Ignatieff's campaign barb

Categories: Liberals, Michael Ignatieff

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A fitness tax credit with a catch or two, no pun intended

Categories: Health, Stephen Harper

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The Liberal plan: to raise the corporate tax rate

Categories: Budget, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff

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The Ignatieff family and 'the immigrant dream'

Categories: Liberals, Michael Ignatieff

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Video: The per-vote party subsidy and elections

Categories: Election, Stephen Harper

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Women candidates on the rise

Categories: Election, Women

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No conditions on the provinces in the Liberal child-care plan

Categories: Child care, Education, Election, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff

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Candidates dropping like flies? Not for the first time

Categories: Election

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The Liberal national child-care plan: Evolution of a promise

Categories: Child care, Michael Ignatieff

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Trade talks take a different track?

Categories: Liberals, Stephen Harper, Trade

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The "driving force" behind a Conservative attack ad

Categories: Coalition, Gilles Duceppe, Stephen Harper

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Video: Just what was the 2008 'coalition'?

Categories: Coalition, Stephen Harper

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Liberal 'learning passport;' it gives and takes away

Categories: Education, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff

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Harper's coalition assertion: 'They tried it before'

Categories: Coalition, Gilles Duceppe, Stephen Harper

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The NDP and consumer debt: an enduring issue

Categories: Jack Layton

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Tory jab: Liberals 'ignoring the choices of individual families'

Categories: Stephen Harper

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Fake lake inflation: Liberal exaggeration

Categories: Liberals

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Coalition reality: Parsing use of the C-word

Categories: Coalition

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Coalition governments: a list of the more prominent ones

Categories: Coalition

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Guaranteed Income Supplement: Who is helping seniors?

Categories: Budget, Seniors, Stephen Harper

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The coalition's not the question

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No alternative but an election, PM says

Categories: Election

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The Oda affair: It's not about the 'Not'

Categories: Contempt

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Budget scorecard: Opposition asks and gets

Categories: Budget

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Moral imperatives: Why Libya?

Categories: Military