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Conservative Party

Candidate profile: Adriane Carr, Vancouver Centre, Green Party

DECISION 2011: If an election could be won by sheer enthusiasm, Adriane Carr would have this one in the bag by now.

NDP under more scrutiny as it enters the big leagues

'Not the first time people have put a target on my back,' Layton says.

Beyond civic literacy

Can voters overcome their hardwired preference for short-term joy and think about what's really best for Canada in the long run?

Tories do damage control after abortion gaffe

DECISION 2011: Harper insists it's a dead issue after candidate makes funding comment.

Why the Conservatives don't deserve the "ethnic vote": Community leaders speak out

DECISION 2011: The Liberal party takes aim at the Conservative party's claim to being friendly to immigrant issues in a press release distributed today.

Candidates Trudeau and Dosanjh rattle Tories' cage on family reunification and citizenship

DECISION 2011: Liberal MPs delight party faithful, woo ethnic vote with attack on Conservative policy.

Sunday’s Almost-All-Candidates Meeting in the West End

The moderator explained that the missing candidate had a last-minute conflict. So they went on without her.

Week one of campaign trail promises

Canadians are headed to the polls for the fourth time in seven years. Here are  some of the promises made last week on the campaign trail.

In Harperland, hypocrisy, cynicism and deceit

Five years ago, a third of the country decided to give the newly branded Conservative Party a trial run. We wanted a change, but we didn’t know if we could trust Stephen Harper. So Canadians gave him...