Sunday, September 29, 2019

A writ is dropped: A campaign underway -- Saturday/Sunday September 28 & 29, 2019



Our compilation of notes on the 2019 Federal Election for  Saturday/Sunday, September 28 & 29, 2019 



Globe and Mail


Liberal platform projects mounting deficits, including $27.4 billion budget gap next year
Deficit plans take backseat as federal parties seek to spend more
Liberals pledging more new money to camping than combatting gun crimes
Liberals vow to tax foreign tech giants on digital ads services


CBC


Liberals to boost spending and extend deficits while taxing luxury and Internet giants
Violent clashes break out at Maxime Bernier event in Hamilton
Alberta will remain an 'energy superpower' under Green Party climate plan, says May
Liberals ask for an investigation of Scheer's insurance industry credentials
NDP pledges investment in sports, after-school programs to steer youth away from violence
Jody Wilson-Raybould calls for non-partisan approach to climate change
The party leaders and the world stage
Green party proposes a 'robot tax' when companies replace workers with machines
What Brexit? Why Andrew Scheer seems reluctant to talk about the project he once called 'cool'
Quebec Liberal volunteer caught disposing of Conservative campaign literature
Why Scheer campaigns with Kenney but not Ford


Toronto Star

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Liberals woo voters with pocketbook promises that carry big price tag
Liberals' plan gets passing grade from former parliamentary budget officer
Liberals target internet giants with new tax
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau turns focus to his enemies in fight to get re-elected
Margin of error around Liberal revenue estimates in enormous
Demonstrators clash outside PPC Leader Maxime Bernier event in Hamilton
Scheer stands by pledge to end Trudeau's experiment with less partisan Senate
NDP promises money for youth programs to help prevent organized crime
How five election campaign promises may affect British Columbians
Whitewater and blackface: The backstory on the Trudeau clip that shocked the world
Liberals pledge additional $250 million to fight gun violence


Toronto Sun

Trudeau embarks on spendapalooza to win over voters
Federal parties target guns and gangs
Greens propose 'robot tax' for companies that replace workers
Trudeau's platform is tax, borrow, spend
Trudeau's Indigenous floating of a canoe tips in Mohawk territory
Trudeau's still stiffing us for his refugee tab
Singh's one liners aren't an energy policy
Candidates ignore federal budget on campaign trail
Trudeau's campaign pledge is peak privilege
Why have the Liberals been blocking a journalist from covering them?


National Post


Liberal platform projects deficits of over $20 billion per year for four years, adds $315 billion in debt
Is Scheer's ambitious energy corridor just a pipe dream?
When voters head to the polls in the West, many of them will be angry: experts
'Both are burnt to me': After years of broken promises, vets struggle with parties
There's something more threatening than Trudeau's blackface
Liberal who replace Eva Nassif in Montreal shut out by her own riding association


Maclean's


Trudeau needs to be this election's big man on campus
The urban-rural divide, right along party lines


Global


Possible political comeback makes Burnaby North-Seymour a riding to watch
Tories, NDP pounce on Liberal campaign promises
Protestors, supporters clash outside Maxime Bernier's event in Hamilton
Conservatives 1st party to register full slate of candidates ahead of Monday deadline
What are the Liberals promising to students? 3 takeaways from the platform
Trudeau unveils Liberal platform in Ford's backyard pledging cost relief for students
'Alienation is a feeling': Western voters to to to polls angry, say experts
NDP promises $100M fund aimed at keeping youth out of gangs
Jagmeet Singh favours 'collaborative approach' on energy project approval
Scheer stands by vow to return to partisan Senate, make patronage appointments
Why some say it's time to challenge 'toxic' partisan conversation on Trudeau's blackface scandal
Why isn't violence against women an election issue?
For May and the Greens, opportunity in this election they've never had in any other
How much dis feminist Trudeau move the needle on gender equality?


Miscellaneous

Andrew Scheer falsely held himself out as an insurance broker on his way to becoming Conservative leader
Trudeau and Scheer want to avoid this ballot box question: 'Should Canada keep its fossil fuels in the ground'

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