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The 5 most generous postal codes for political donations
Top spenders in Penticton, Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Lakefield, Ont.
They’re coming after your family
Days into a contest of meanness, a surprisingly clear contrast on honest-to-goodness platforms has suddenly emerged
Ignatieff finds his fight
Paul Wells on the Liberal leader’s surprisingly good start to the election campaign
Video from the Harper campaign
Here’s some video I shot while covering the Harper campaign. On Wednesday he was outside Toronto. On Thursday he was in Halifax. Both times he delivered a strong economic message to a handpicked Conservative party audience. And on the first day he issued a challenge to Michael Ignatieff he would soon regret.
Video from Ignatieff’s campaign
When I wasn’t tweeting, blogging, preparing my article for the next issue or arming for battle with Colleague Coyne, I shot some video on Monday and Tuesday from the Ignatieff tour. Here are some highlights. I’ll try to bring you more video as the campaign progresses.
Go boldly
The Toronto Star makes its demands of the next five weeks.
Bus lag
Susan Delacourt reflects on the lessons of campaigns past.
Do you know where your favourite Maclean’s writer is?
In the early going, John Geddes will be our man aboard Mr. Harper’s campaign. For the first days, I’ll be travelling with Mr. Ignatieff’s tour. Early next week, I’ll jump off and Paul Wells will jump on.
Stephen Harper and Canada, a love story
Judging from the Conservative party’s campaign slogan (“Here for Canada”) and the placard that adorned the Prime Minister’s lectern yesterday (“Canada”) and the giant flag behind him (Canadian), not to mention the actual content of Sunday’s speech—some of which was presaged by a speech to supporters last fall—Mr. Harper’s preferred ballot question would seem to be this: Who loves Canada most? Or, put as less of a question: I love Canada more than Michael Ignatieff.
John Baird is consistently saddened by your partisanship
Today, the New Democrats hosted a tour for reporters of their campaign headquarters. John Baird subsequently explained that while other parties were participating in political provocations, his party was interested only in governing.
Can you trust a man who doesn’t drink his coffee from a Beatles mug?
The Conservatives don’t want an election, but are willing to start the campaign here and now with half a dozen new adverts. In the first clip, we learn that to protect Canada from European rioters, Stephen Harper is sitting alone at his desk all day, doing a lot of paperwork.
The In-and-Out election
The 2006 election campaign that brought Stephen Harper to power on a promise of new accountability continues to raise questions of accounting.