After a relatively substantive opening week to the campaign, week two quickly descended into a morass of meaningless gaffes and process stories – the kind of things that earn tons of ink, even though voters care next to nothing about them. We shockingly learned that Stephen Harper likes to stack Conservative rallies with Conservatives. We […]

Let’s just hope the Habs aren’t playing May 2nd, or we might need to reschedule the whole election: French election debate switched to Wednesday because of Habs OTTAWA—File this one in the only-in-Canada category. A multi-partisan outcry has led to the rescheduling of a federal election debate so that it does not overlap with a […]

The Conservatives! The Conservative platform promises $11 billion in cuts…without saying where the $11 billion in cuts will come from. For more, listen to Paul Wells try to make sense of it with Jim Flaherty.

Two weeks ago, the budget was projected to be balanced in 2015-16. Now, the budget is projected to be balanced one year sooner.

The 30,871 word Liberal platform and the 22,178 word Tory platfom, in word clouds: Not surprisingly, both are heavy on the “Canada”. Of note, the Liberal platform uses the word family or families 310 times, compared to 63 in the Tory platform. The Conservatives use the word coalition in their platform 48 times – it […]

The Tories release their platform, though don’t hold your breathe – most of the big ticket promises won’t be implemented until the deficit is eliminated. The good news is this is projected to be one year ahead of schedule, in 2014-15. The bad news? This is based on wishful thinking, rather than anything concrete: “We […]

‘It’s normal’ for Tory ridings to get more federal cash, Larry Smith says Federal money naturally flows to ridings represented by the governing party, according to the star Conservative candidate in the western suburbs of Montreal. Larry Smith, the former football player and CFL executive who briefly served as senator before the election call, says […]