Reality Check: The facts behind the promises
Voting your head or your heart? Either way, there's little proof strategic voting works
There's a cluster of websites popping up online, encouraging voters — regardless of their partisan leanings — to cast ballots for specific candidates in their ridings.
So, what about carbon emissions?
Stephen Harper is warning that the NDP's plan to reduce carbon emissions would increase gasoline prices. But the reality is that Canadians would likely feel more pain at the pumps under any of the main political parties.
What ever happened to those Afghan detainee documents, anyway?
More than a week after party officials of all stripes enthusiastically called for the release of much-anticipated Afghan detainee documents, the subject appears to have fallen off the radar, raising questions about whether it was all nothing but bluster...
Pensions, by the numbers
Pensions are a hot topic being bandied about by the federal parties, and in each of their platforms they promise to boost funding for retirement. Each party has a different vision for how to go about improving national pensions. But all of them say their...
Where do the parties stand on Libya?
While NATO members are being pressured to step up their commitments in the month-long effort to protect Libyan civilians against the forces of embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi, Canada's federal parties have barely addressed the issue while on the campaign...
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In his own words: Harper on minority governments, coalitions
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has finally acknowledged that he would consider heading a government supported by other parties if a Conservative minority is defeated in Parliament after the May 2 election. Conservative leader Stephen Harper, on the...
Tories and Liberals spar over Harper quote on health care act
Conservative party campaign manager Jenni Byrne accused the Liberals Monday of falsifying a quote in a recent television ad that suggested Conservative leader Stephen Harper could not be trusted to defend the public health-care system.
Where the federal parties stand on isotope production
The shutdown of the Canadian nuclear facility that produces medical isotopes sparked alarming headlines in 2007, and again in 2009-10 when the Chalk River National Research Unit reactor in Ontario was out of commission for months. The subsequent global...
Ignatieff's excuse for missing votes in Commons: how does it hold up?
There have been 167 votes on motions, amendments and bills in the House of Commons since May 2, 2009, the date Michael Ignatieff officially became the Liberal leader.
Tories and Grits alike tout health-care message
The Conservatives and Liberals pummelled each other over health care and democracy Saturday — the first, an issue voters say is a priority, the second, a topic that has flared up around specific campaign incidents.
All parties want new health transfers deal, but how are they to pay for it?
Canada's universal health-care model was recently depicted as an unsustainable and fiscally volatile system. But that didn't stop the leaders of the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP from vowing, as they march along the campaign trail, to continue the ...
Conservative spending cuts: Is it possible?
The federal Conservative party has pledged to slash $4 billion in spending and balance the budget a year earlier than previously promised. Postmedia News reality-checks the promise.
Liberal childcare plan: What is it?
As political party leaders jostle for the family vote in 2011, Postmedia News reality-checks some key promises. Today: The Liberal plan for childcare.
Income splitting. How it works
As political party leaders jostle for the family vote in 2011, Postmedia News reality-checks some key promises. Today: The Conservative plan for income splitting.
Liberal veteran education promise could hit roadblocks: experts
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff highlighted his party's "vets not jets" promise Monday with a multi-million dollar promise to help Canadian Forces veterans get back to school.
Reality check: Harper vows to clinch EU, India trade deals
Stephen Harper is vowing to clinch free-trade deals with the European Union and India. But there are a number of factors that could trip up the talks, including the willingness of the provinces to play ball.
Reality check: NDP takes aim at small business owners
The NDP cutting business taxes? No, the world isn't standing on its head.
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Inside Ignatieff's Passport to Education proposal
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff unveiled his Passport to Education program Tuesday, to help more students afford post-secondary education.
The Gritty reality: We fact-check Liberals' statements on Harper's spending
On Monday, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff accused the Conservatives of being the highest-spending, most wasteful government in history, referring to a list of expenses from stealth fighter jets to the G8/G20 summits last summer. How thrifty were the...
Reality 'cheque': Harper's claims on the economy
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is highlighting his government's economic record, while hammering the opposition parties on theirs. In a speech in Brampton, Ont., Sunday, he explained how Conservative economic policies differ from those of the opposition...
