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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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The cost of being tough on crime

By David McKie on April 30, 2011 9:54 AM

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

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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The NDP and price of doctors

By Meagan Fitzpatrick on April 29, 2011 4:08 PM

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

By David McKie on April 28, 2011 7:59 PM

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

By Ira Basen on April 27, 2011 4:53 PM

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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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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The National Pharmaceutical Strategy: a 'prescription unfilled'

By David McKie on April 24, 2011 6:37 PM

Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP

In 2004, Ottawa and the provinces promised a National Pharmaceutical Strategy to make prescription drugs more accessible. But as David McKie reports that promise is far from being filled.
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NDP charge: the Liberals oppose pharmacare. Really?

By Laura Payton on April 21, 2011 2:47 PM

Categories: Health, Liberals, NDP

The NDP says Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff doesn't support a national pharmacare program. That's splitting a big fat hair and the NDP should know better.
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VIDEO: Unemployment and what the parties are promising

By Reality Check Team on April 21, 2011 1:44 PM

Categories: Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, Unemployment

Is Canada facing structural unemployment? Amanda Lang looks at the numbers and what the parties are promising to do about it.
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Food safety: the forgotten issue?

By David McKie on April 20, 2011 2:09 PM

Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP

In 2008, reeling from the tainted meat crisis, federal leaders promised to revamp Canada's food safety system. This time, there is money on the table but no real plans for a problem that spans the globe.
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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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NDP targets Ignatieff on abortion issue

By Meagan Fitzpatrick on April 18, 2011 2:45 PM

Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP, Women

In a 'reality check' of its own, the NDP says Ignatieff's voting record does not match his words on abortion and a woman's right to choose. Sorry, NDP, that's a bit of a stretch.
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