Friday, October 4, 2019

A writ is dropped: A campaign underway -- Friday October 4, 2019



Our compilation of notes on the 2019 Federal Election for Friday, October 4, 2019 



Globe and Mail

Heavy Lifting: Seven reasons why voters should worry more about big government and red ink
Conservatives drop BC candidate over LGBTQ comments
Scheer held the largest rally of his campaign, but didn't reach the number of attendees hoped for
Jason Kenney's Ontario tour includes stop in Doug Ford's political stronghold of Etobicoke
Scheer vows to bring in mandatory minimums for smuggled guns, violent gang crime if elected
The same old stories: How the narratives around Canada's political parties became pathology

CBC

Conservatives eject BC candidate over 'offensive' comments about LGBTQ people
Andrew Scheer's mid-campaign identity crisis
Andrew Scheer is registered for selective service - the U.S. agency that runs the military draft
Scheer's claim about penalties for violent gang crime 'extremely misleading' says lawyer
Singh brushes off Green complaint about abortion-related social media posts
Trudeau says his personal stance on abortion has 'evolved'
Liberals' 2 campaign planes and their carbon offsets draw Scheer's ire
Singh's claim that Liberal trade concessions will drive up drug prices oversimplified


Toronto Star

Here's what the party leaders need to do - and avoid - in televised debates
Canada's two solitudes - environmental and electoral
Scheer's dual citizenship response inadvertently shows who gets to be Canadian
Here's what the Liberals are promising for Indigenous people
Jagmeet Singh suffers racist fools gladly. Not everyone can
Lots of Canadians have dual citizenship, it's no big deal, Andrew Scheer says
'Offensive comments': Tories part ways with BC candidate after anti-LGBTQ remarks surface
Federal Tory candidate Warren Steinley reveals past impaired driving conviction
Green Party would plant 10 billion trees to fight climate change
Singh brushes off Green complaint about abortion-related social media posts


Toronto Sun

Singh rises quickly in leader approval ratings
Trudeau's climate hypocrisy in plane sight
Liberal candidate apologizes for past racist, homophobic and sexist social media posts
Trudeau's AR 15 ban is about perception not reality
It's time to unleash Doug Ford on Trudeau


National Post

This doesn't look like reconciliation, it looks like self-interest
Still a bit confused, the splintering of Canada's progressive vote
Two (!) carbon-spewing planes. Greta will not be pleased
You can't be leader of one country and pledge allegiance to another
Candidates in hot seat at first ever campaign debate hosted by Catholic Archdiocese
The battle for BC's Lower Mainland: Liberals hope to make inroads while NDP fights for its foothold
Trudeau and his team are in office, but not in power
In the Beauce, a 'handshake campaign' could decide the future of Maxime Bernier and his People's Party


Maclean's

The Tory climate plan unplugged
The 'family shame' of Canadian politics: class struggle
Jason Kenney does for the federal Tories what Doug Ford can't
Supreme Court Justices come to Winnipeg - and the crowd goes wild


Global

What matters to Canada's new Syrian-born citizens in this federal election?
Canada doesn't limit politicians with dual citizenship - here's how it works
Take a bow? Rihanna just followed Jagmeet Singh on Instagram
Singh refuses to apologize over suggestion Greens have anti-abortion candidates
Conservatives drop BC candidates who said 'homosexuals recruit' kids after outcry
Greens promise to plant 10 billion trees over 30 years to fight climate change
Federal candidates spar over abortion, persecution of Christians to woo Catholic voters
NDP's Singh stands by decision to block Regina MP for running for party
Alberta premier hits campaign trail for Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer
Andrew Scheer's dual citizenship


Miscellaneous

NDP candidate Svend Robinson calls on Andrew Scheer to fire Conservative candidate for comments in videos


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