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The NDP and price of doctors
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?
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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Polling, accuracy and the contest for bragging rights
Categories: Polling
Politicians will not be the only people watching with sweaty palms as the votes are counted on Monday night. Pollsters have much riding on this campaign, too.
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UPDATE: How much for that F-35 jet in the window?
Categories: Conservatives, Liberals, Military
So how much will Canada's next generation fighter jet - the proposed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter - really cost?
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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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Union support for Conservative budget? Sort of.
Categories: Budget, Conservatives
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says the Canadian Labour Congress supported the Tories' March 22 budget, but the CLC says that's not quite true. Click through to see why.
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Food safety: the forgotten issue?
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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A campaign compendium of coalition quotes
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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AUDIO: Does cutting the deficit mean cutting programs
Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Taxes
AUDIO: Can the Conservatives trim an extra $11 billion from spending without cutting programs? Curt Petrovich talks to some outside experts who doubt that can happen.
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Temporary foreign workers: why so many all of a sudden?
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
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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Fact-checking the leaders' debate
Categories: Leaders' debate
Are you following the televised leaders' debate? So are we, reality-checking just what is being said.
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$11 billion is a big hole
Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Liberals
The Conservative party managed to find an extra $11 billion in "savings" in the two and a half weeks between the budget and their platform release. Will this cash ever appear?
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VIDEO: Help for seniors, parsing the NDP platform
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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VIDEO: Cutting the deficit sooner, the new Tory promise
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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Platform comparison: the policies in common
Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, Seniors
Singing from the same hymnbook? The Conservatives, Liberals and NDP have at least five policy planks in common. We compare and contrast.
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The Liberals and gun control: curbing their enthusiasm?
Categories: Crime, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff
In 2006 and 2008, the Liberals were front and centre on gun control, promising to ban handguns and then assault rifles. Today, the focus is elsewhere.
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Tax breaks for volunteer firefighters - less than meets the eye
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
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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The Liberal plan: to raise the corporate tax rate
Categories: Budget, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff
The claim: Liberals say raising the corporate tax rate to 2010 levels will pay for their social spending. As Keith Boag reports, it may not be that clear.
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The Ignatieff family and 'the immigrant dream'
Categories: Liberals, Michael Ignatieff
The claim: "My dad was a Russian immigrant", Michael Ignatieff says. "He came off a boat in 1928 without anything. He lived that immigrant dream...."
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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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Liberal 'learning passport;' it gives and takes away
Categories: Education, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff
The Liberals' new Canadian Learning Passport offers $1,000 a year to every high school student who goes on to university or college. But that's not as much as it first appears.
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The NDP and consumer debt: an enduring issue
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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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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Budget scorecard: Opposition asks and gets
Categories: Budget
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the budget he delivered March 22 was not designed to appease the opposition parties.
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