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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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Family reunification: Still waiting for mom and dad

By David McKie on April 15, 2011 2:13 PM

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

The Conservatives say they are increasing immigration across all categories. That's not fully the case, though, when it comes to family reunification.
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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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How did we get here? A matter of debate

By Meagan Fitzpatrick on April 13, 2011 1:38 PM

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: Cutting the deficit sooner, the new Tory promise

By Reality Check Team on April 9, 2011 11:29 AM

Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Stephen Harper

The budget promised no deficit by 2015-16. But now Stephen Harper says he will do it a year earlier, despite a raft of election promises. Amanda Lang parses the numbers.
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The Conservatives and health-care transfers

By Laura Payton on April 8, 2011 1:00 PM

Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Health, Stephen Harper

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says his party's been consistent about continuing health transfers to the provinces after 2014. But it is more like consistently vague.
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Oh John Baird, he stands on guard for Harper

By Meagan Fitzpatrick on April 5, 2011 4:47 PM

Categories: Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Partisanship, Stephen Harper

The claim, by Tory John Baird, that Michael Ignatieff is "un-Canadian" for suggesting something similar about the Conservatives' restrictive policy at their rallies.
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Tax breaks for volunteer firefighters - less than meets the eye

By David McKie on April 5, 2011 2:17 PM

Categories: Budget, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper

Both the Conservatives and Liberals are courting volunteer firefighters with a proposed tax credit. One's a little richer. Both require a close look by any claimants.
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A fitness tax credit with a catch or two, no pun intended

By Meagan Fitzpatrick on April 4, 2011 5:07 PM

Categories: Health, Stephen Harper

Conservative proposal: a fitness tax credit for adults. Is a $75 annual refund enough to get you off the couch?
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Video: The per-vote party subsidy and elections

By Reality Check Team on April 2, 2011 12:29 PM

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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Trade talks take a different track?

By Meagan Fitzpatrick on March 31, 2011 4:12 PM

Categories: Liberals, Stephen Harper, Trade

It would be 'a gong show,' Stephen Harper says, if the Liberals get to be in charge of free trade.
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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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Tory jab: Liberals 'ignoring the choices of individual families'

By Ira Basen on March 29, 2011 4:09 PM

Categories: Stephen Harper

There was a time when the Liberals opposed the Universal Child Care Benefit. But that was almost five years ago.
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Guaranteed Income Supplement: Who is helping seniors?

By Robert Sheppard on March 28, 2011 9:00 AM

Categories: Budget, Seniors, Stephen Harper

As the election campaign progresses, you will be hearing much about Canada's hard-hit seniors.
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