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Tonight, follow the French-language leaders' debate at rabble.ca | Sep 24 2015 | rabble staff | rabble.ca is covering the French leaders debate tonight. You can follow it here.

Affordable housing for all: Let's make it an election priority | Sep 24 2015 | Celia Chandler, Pro Bono | September 23 to 30 marks Canada's "National Week of Action on Housing." If you care about the state of affordable housing in Canada, this is the time to let your political candidate know.

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Why Canada needs a real housing policy | Sep 24 2015 | Tim Sale | This election, ask your candidates what they will do to make affordable, safe housing available to all our citizens, not only those who can buy a house or condo.

Eye on Quebec: Leaders debate in French on Thursday in Montreal | Sep 23 2015 | David Gray-Donald | On Thursday Sept. 24 five federal leaders will debate, giving Quebecers their first chance to see the candidates duke it in French. What's the word so far on who will take Quebec's 78 seats this time?

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Renegotiating NAFTA by the back door | Sep 23 2015 | Jim Stanford | Trans-Pacific Partnership talks have jumped right into the deep end of NAFTA: undertaking a wholesale renegotiation of what is by far Canada's most important trade relationship. Why?

Missing in (debate) action: Macroeconomic lessons from the Great Depression | Sep 23 2015 | Mario Seccareccia | Why is our current crop of Canadian political leaders trapped in a rhetorical box of "sound finance" that will merely guarantee our economy will remain stuck in a state of secular stagnation?

The scary corporate tax number-generating machine | Sep 23 2015 | Hugh Mackenzie | What a surprise! The NDP makes a proposal for a very modest increase in corporate tax rates and defenders of all things corporate in Canada turn on their scary corporate tax number-generating machine.

Fact check: Will Stephen Harper create 1.3 million jobs by 2020? | Sep 23 2015 | Nora Loreto | Harper's mantra must be: "Aim for the moon. That way, if you miss, you'll fall among the stars." Not sure it works during an election campaign though.

Muslim youth debate leaves Conservatives in the dust | Sep 23 2015 | Aaliya Khan | On Friday Sept. 18, representatives from the major parties spoke to an audience of predominantly young and Muslim individuals. What issues took centrestage during this discussion?

I don't know about you but this election is unbearable | Sep 23 2015 | Gerry Caplan | An NDP government has been a wildly unrealistic dream, a total fantasy, for all that time. Yet here we are.

Report on Gaza: 2015 election guide | Sep 23 2015 | Analyzing the positions of Canada’s political parties on the Middle East.

Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections | Sep 23 2015 | The Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections is a web database of election results and statistics.

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2015 Federal Election = 2014 Ontario Provincial Election terrytowel said... Conservatives 2014 Tim Hudak says he is going to create 1 Million Jobs 2015 Stephen Harper says he...

Do Liberal supporters have the right to expect the party to have a "this far, and no further" point on the rightward shift? mark_alfred said... Since there's so many Liberals here now, I figured I'd make a parallel thread to the similarly...

Bloc Throws Hail Mary In New Attack Ad Against Mulcair & NDP terrytowel said... A vote for Thomas Mulcair and the NDP means a vote for pipelines and niqabs — and possibly even a...

Unfair Elections Act terrytowel said... For all the talk of this being a three-way tie, would this vote supression tactic by the...

What Happened To The NDP Slogan "Don't Vote Out Of Fear?" terrytowel said... Elizabeth May was just on CPAC and she is very upset at the NDP. She says they are using "fear" (...

The Globe and Mail economic debate September 17 Slumberjack said... What's this? E. May not invited? Tsk tsk. I think it says more about the...

Calgary: sendHarperAmessage.ca bagkitty said... Hey mmphosis, I was wondering if someone else would catch that... here is the local CBC coverage. I...

Green Party releases their platform, September 9, 2015 mark_alfred said... Green Party releases their platform: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-...

Harper campaign 2015 mark_alfred said... There's both a Mulcair campaign and a Trudeau campaign thread, so I figure we may as well have a...