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What is truth in an election campaign?

By Ira Basen on April 30, 2011 3:47 PM

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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What comes next? Post-election scenarios and the Constitution

By Laura Payton on April 29, 2011 1:03 PM

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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VIDEO: Spending controls for the G8

By Reality Check Team on April 18, 2011 11:56 AM

Categories: Auditor General, Coalition, Conservatives

VIDEO: Ottawa didn't appear to keep close tabs on the $50-million, G8 fix-up to Tony Clement's riding. But as Diana Swain discovers, it was a different story elsewhere.
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A campaign compendium of coalition quotes

By Reality Check Team on April 15, 2011 4:45 PM

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

From the outset of this election campaign, party leaders have been sniping at each other over coalition governments, real and imagined. We offer a campaign compendium of what's been said.
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Who wants to charge a $75 iPod tax? Uh, no one

By Laura Payton on April 15, 2011 4:15 PM

Categories: Coalition, Conservatives, Liberals, Taxes

UPDATED: In a new ad, the Conservatives say Canada's other parties want to charge you a $75 tax on iPods and smart phones. Not so, in fact the record on this is pretty clear.
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The "driving force" behind a Conservative attack ad

By Ira Basen on March 30, 2011 8:03 PM

Categories: Coalition, Gilles Duceppe, Stephen Harper

In case you hadn't noticed, 'tis the season for election ads, many of which skate gingerly around the truth.
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Video: Just what was the 2008 'coalition'?

By Reality Check Team on March 30, 2011 7:36 AM

Categories: Coalition, Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper has been using the word 'coalition' often during the election campaign, but has he been using it correctly?
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Harper's coalition assertion: 'They tried it before'

By Reality Check Team on March 29, 2011 5:49 PM

Categories: Coalition, Gilles Duceppe, Stephen Harper

For the record, the three parties - the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc - did not try to create a coalition in 2008, contrary to what Stephen Harper says.
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Coalition reality: Parsing use of the C-word

By Ira Basen on March 28, 2011 5:29 PM

Categories: Coalition

What strange times these must be for visitors to Canada from Israel, or the U.K. or Australia, or any one of dozens of other countries where coalitions currently govern.
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Coalition governments: a list of the more prominent ones

By Reality Check Team on March 28, 2011 5:10 PM

Categories: Coalition

Coalition governments rule in eight European countries, incuding Britain and Germany, as well as the more sprawling democracies such as India and Brazil. We start a list.
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