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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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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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More polling: methodology, online surveys, Nick Clegg
Why is there so much variation in polling numbers? It has much to do with how and how many respondents are contacted. A user's guide.
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Polling and 'the NDP surge'
Categories: Election, Jack Layton, Polling
Four opinion polls, all published on the same day, each with very different conclusions about party standings. Why we can't simply believe the polls.
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Liberal ad: Stephen Harper versus the Canada Health Act
Categories: Conservatives, Election, Liberals
In a new ad, the Liberals quote Stephen Harper from 1997 saying the Canada Health Act 'should be scrapped.' He may have felt that way, but these weren't his words.
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The auditor general's report: who's got it, who doesn't
Categories: Auditor General, Election, Leaders' debate
The three opposition parties are loudly demanding the government release the controversial auditor general's report. It's not the government's to release.
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How did we get here? A matter of debate
Categories: Conservatives, Contempt, Election, Leaders' debate, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper
Why is there an election? Political opportunism or a government that was 'in contempt of Parliament?' A forensic look at the Harper - Ignatieff election rationales.
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Video: The per-vote party subsidy and elections
Categories: Election, Stephen Harper
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says the per-vote party subsidy is part of the reason we've had so many elections in recent years.
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Women candidates on the rise
Canada's political parties are on pace to nominate more women candidates than in recent elections.
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No conditions on the provinces in the Liberal child-care plan
Categories: Child care, Education, Election, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff
Think of the Liberal child-care plan as a kind of social infrastructure fund. The best provincial proposals get the money, but there is no guarantee on what it will be spent.
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Candidates dropping like flies? Not for the first time
Categories: Election
Just when you think the federal parties have nailed down their lists of candidates for the upcoming election, someone has to sheepishly announce a correction.
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No alternative but an election, PM says
Categories: Election
The prime minister insists this is a terrible time for an election, but he was forced to ask the Governor General to call one.
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- Record number of women elected
- There will be more female faces in the House of Commons following Monday's federal election that saw 76 women elected, the highest number of women ever. more »
- Layton defends inexperienced Quebec caucus
- NDP Leader Jack Layton defends his youngest, least-experienced caucus members after Quebec voters elect three McGill University students and a pub manager who doesn't speak French or live in the francophone riding she'll represent. more »
- Ignatieff quits as Liberal leader
- Michael Ignatieff is quitting as the Liberal leader after his party took an electoral drubbing on Monday night. more »
- Harper faces cabinet gaps
- With Parliament expected to return to work at the end of May, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have openings to fill after losing several cabinet ministers on election night. more »
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