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

By Reality Check Team on April 29, 2011 5:10 PM

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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VIDEO: Costing out the NDP platform

By Reality Check Team on April 26, 2011 11:48 AM

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

By Meagan Fitzpatrick on April 25, 2011 5:17 PM

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

Rising in the polls, the NDP are suddenly being targeted by the Liberals who accuse them of killing national child care and 'jacking up your taxes.' And the basis for this?
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Polling and 'the NDP surge'

By Ira Basen on April 25, 2011 8:56 AM

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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VIDEO: Tough on crime? The NDP platform

By Reality Check Team on April 19, 2011 11:47 AM

Categories: Crime, Jack Layton, NDP

The NDP would legislate tougher punishments for those convicted of home invasions, car-jacking and elder abuse. But, as Diana Swain reports, these are already captured under existing Criminal Code provisions.
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Debate night scrapbook, two passes and a bunch of fails

By Ira Basen on April 17, 2011 3:38 PM

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

Debate night passes and fails: 'Mr. Harper you used to care about the environment' and other rhetorical excesses.
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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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Temporary foreign workers: why so many all of a sudden?

By Ira Basen on April 14, 2011 6:49 PM

Categories: Conservatives, Immigrants, Jack Layton, Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper defended the big increase in foreign 'guest workers' and said most settle here. It may be true but the program isn't set up for that and no one is keeping tabs.
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NDP promise: Keeping corporate tax rate below the U.S.

By Ira Basen on April 12, 2011 6:45 AM

Categories: Jack Layton, Taxes

Tax evaders, tax avoiders. Is there any point talking about comparative corporate tax rates when the world is full of easy come tax shelters?
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VIDEO: Help for seniors, parsing the NDP platform

By Reality Check Team on April 11, 2011 2:12 PM

Categories: Jack Layton, Seniors

Amanda Lang on the NDP plan for Canada's seniors: More generous than the other two parties, but would assist fewer people.
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The NDP and consumer debt: an enduring issue

By David McKie on March 29, 2011 4:34 PM

Categories: Jack Layton

Championing the cause of consumers, the NDP's Jack Layton recycles an old campaign promise about credit card debt.
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