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Last updated: November 10, 2008

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Tory Platform Ignores LGBT Human Rights
  Conservative Party Platform barely mentions human rights and entirely neglects the concerns of LGBT communities - Egale

NDP Receives Best Grade
  Greens Close Behind, Conservatives and Liberals Receive Worst Grades - Democracy Watch

Conservatives refuse answers on media
  The other four national parties did supply answers - Campaign for Democratic Media

Sarah Palin abused her powers in Troopergate
  Probe finds that Governor allowed her husband to harass police while seeking to have former brother-in-law fired - Agence France Presse

Harper disrespects his own wife
  Laureen Harper pulled out of the National Arts Centre gala after her husband's remarks - Elaine Gibson

Conservatives run deficit budgets too
  NDP governments actually have a very good track record at balancing budgets - Elaine Gibson

"Anything But Conservative"
  The Almonte "ABC" Chorus has just released its first (and only!) video...

Project Ploughshares counts Canadian contributions
  Much more money, resources, going to combat than to peacekeeping - ploughsharesedmonton.org

Harper's election call unfair and unjust
  Conservatives also abused franking privileges to flood Liberal ridings with Conservative propaganda - Sinclair Stevens

Palin Page II
  A list of videos sent in by a reader - the Webmaster

Cost of Afghan war revealed
  Figures contained in study by security analyst - Brent Patterson, The Council of Canadians

Women in Poverty
  There is a direct connection between women's poverty and women's homelessness - Ad Hoc Coalition for Women's Equality and Human Rights

Election neglecting issues: war and homelessness
  Huge military spending, unpopular Afghan War not questioned despite economic crisis and mass homelessness - Toronto Disaster Relief Committee

Media and Culture:
  Where do the parties stand? - Steve Anderson, Campaign For Democratic Media

"That's Not True!"
  Was the leaders' favourite line in the election debates, but none of them committed to ensuring honesty in politics - Democracy Watch

Ruling on Motion
  Court challenge of legality of Prime Minister's Federal Election Call to be decided after the election - Democracy Watch

Post-Debate Summary: English-Language Leaders'
  Audience says Harper comes out on top but Layton not far behind - Ipsos Reid/CanWest News

Bread and circuses
  White wedding reported to be Republicans' great hope for sweeping the election - John Chuckman

Make hunger an election issue
  More than 720,000 Canadians are assisted by food banks every month - Shawn Pegg

Hands across the border
  Two oilmen share a handshake... and national agendas - humour

Possibility of a CPC majority
  ...with as little as 36 points if the Liberals and NDP were to saw off and the GP actually converts a sizable fraction of current supporters on Election Day - Frank Graves, EKOS Research

American financial bailout has lessons for Canadians
  Deregulation, new investment rules put pension plans at risk - Canadian Labour Congress

Friends of Democracy
  4 things you can do now to help ensure an honest, good federal government - Democracy Watch

My questions for election 2008 debate
  Blogger lists ten questions, invites readers to add or comment - Dennis Gruending

Whirligig McCain
  Behold the incredible spinning man - Christine C Mather

Arts community fighting federal cuts
  More than 500 small arts organizations affected - Evelyn Myrie, The Hamilton Spectator

To be creative is, in fact, Canadian
  Premier author takes issue with Prime Minister's assertion that ordinary people don't care about the arts - Margaret Atwood

Harper's claim not true: inspection agency union
  CFIA may have hired more people, but they aren't working in food safety - Bill Curry

Nationalism card isn't the ace it once was
  Harper's conciliatory approach to Quebec nationalism no longer affords the rest of his agenda the kind of pass he enjoyed in the very recent past - Chantal Hébert

Takin' it Back to Barack, Jack!
  A swing music Youtube video in support of Barack Obama - Will Galison and his Orchestra

Harperites celebrate literacy, cut funding
  Tony Clement includes photo of 93-year-old new reader in his constituency mailings - Jane Thomas

"It's the Zoomers, stupid!"
  CARP reveals how to win the election - CARP

Make food justice an election issue
  Ask your candidates what they are doing to promote food security - USC

Layton hints at possible Liberal-NDP coalition
  Dion unveils 'safe economic' platform, vowing to scrap income-trust tax and to scale back Kelowna Accord - Steven Chase, Bill Curry, Tu Thanh Ha

Cuts to arts funding revealing
  "No government, in showing contempt for artists, has ever been able to survive." - Wajdi Mouwad, playwright

Total reinvestment in the arts
  Liberals promise to restore Harperite funding cuts, and then some - Ann Douglas

Election 2008 — Don't Play With Women's Rights
  If you are concerned about women's equality and reproductive rights, join us on September 28th, 2008 - Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada

Polls show Harperites slowly gaining ground
  Liberals on defensive, trying to explain their "Green Shift" policy - Geoffrey Stevens

"Please sir... I want some democracy"
  Fair Vote Canada launches OrphanVoters.ca - fairvotecanada.org

"My American Prayer" video
  Celebrities in medley support Obama

CPAC-Nanos tracking poll
  Change is happening - Nanos Research

Harper's Canadian revolution
  The Prime Minister isn't just fighting an election. He's bent on reorienting the nation - Paul Wells for Maclean's

The Liberal Democratic Party?
  Uniting the left is a notion in increasing favour with pollsters, pundits and pols - David Olive

A grim trend is developing
  National random telephone survey results - Nanos Research

The growing ideological no man's land
  Most voters can't define right or left or care about the distinction - Michael Valpy

Tories apologize for insulting natives
  Then Cannon has to say sorry for new gaffe - Canwest News Services

Drop in the Liberal vote
  Where are those voters going?

Name-calling the voters
  Litany of Conservative insults on Canadians continues to grow.

NDP announces home care plan
  First step would be to support 100,000 families.

Conservatives pledge funds to French-language TV
  $10 million to go to Quebec TV5, $15 million to international network

Conservatives attack Greens for marijuana policy
  But 55 percent of Canadians say that pot should be legal - Jim Harris, submitted on 23 October 2007

Our leaders' debates are controlled by the TV
  Is it time to 'pull the plug'? - Susan Mohammad

Apologies overshadow promises
  Harperites playing defence on campaign trail - David Akin, Norma Greenaway, Mike De Souza, and Jack Branswell

Secret Conservative survey threatens arts
  CBC might also be on the line - Anne Lagacé Dowson

Questions about the arts
  What to ask candidates at the door or all-candidates meetings - Canadian Conference for the Arts

Pull out of Afghanistan now!
  Harper's pledge to pull out in 2011 not soon enough - Canadian Peace Alliance

Vote for education
  Here are the issues for post-secondary students and their parents to ask candidates about - Canadian Federation of Students

Healthcare coalitions' questions for candidate
  Protect public healthcare by asking the right questions - Canadian Health Coalition

Let's talk about jobs
  Conservatives shrug; Liberals generalize; only NDP are specific - Canadian Labour Congress

AFL-CIO calls for good jobs
  US minimum wage still stuck at $5.15 an hour - from the AFL-CIO

USA sinks, Canada treads water
  Productivity has dropped during Harper's regime - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Tory support taking a hit in key Quebec ridings
  Fierce battle has been brewing on Quebec's airwaves - Omar El Akkad

Greenpeace calls for a moratorium on GE food
  Impact of GE crops around the world — devastating - from Greenpeace

"Political Hot Air Tax" for dishonesty
  Group calls for penalties for broken promises and false claims - Democracy Watch

Environmental questions for candidates
  Ask pointed questions of candidates, on issues from the environment to media reform - Unitarian-Universalist Congregation, Victoria BC

Sarah Palin: Bush déjà-vu all over again
  A younger, prettier version of the most incompetent person ever to hold the office of president - John Chuckman

The Hill: Harper more of an onion
  Start peeling and layer after layer is the same - Richard Cleroux

EKOS' first seat projection
  Tories on the brink of majority... really on the brink - EKOS

Blizzard of Lies
  Why do the McCain people think they can get away with this stuff? - Paul Krugman

The Conservative-Liberal Fiscal Box
  Each one point cut in the corporate income tax rate costs Ottawa $1.75 billion per year - Andrew Jackson

Not much of a record
  A commentary on behalf of the National Farmers Union Ontario - Grant Robertson
 

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