Some quick takes on races to watch in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces:

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Incumbent Conservative Fabian Manning defied Danny Williams when Manning was a backbencher in Williams’ govt and earned his ‘rep’ as being one of the only politicians to stand up to Danny and go on ...   more »

I've just driven from Ottawa to Montreal. I finish this campaign at Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's election night headquarters in a hotel in his riding of St. Laurent-Cartierville, near Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.

On election night I and my colleague Hannah Thibedeau will be reporting from here during ...   more »

Attentive readers of this blog will remember the sceptical eye cast at a poll of Guelph voters taken by a Winnipeg company last summer in the midst of what was just a byelection there. That poll showed that it was going to be a Liberal win in a cakewalk. Well, ...   more »

Even though the NDP has had more trouble than other parties with some of its candidates, it managed to get on the ballot in each of Canada's 308 ridings by the Elections Canada cutoff date of Sept. 22. In fact, it was the only party to do that.
Parties will ...   more »

Elections Canada over the weekend released the spending limits for all candidates and parties. Spending limits are set by the federal elections watchdog based on a number of factors, but mostly based on the number of electors in each district in which the party has a candidate. Here's the list ...   more »

And here's some stuff I wrote about it: MONCTON, N.B. - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper reminded enthusiastic supporters here of his family's New Brunswick roots and cheered the region's "confidence" and "vibrant entrepreneurial economy" hours after Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, also campaigning near here, reminded Atlantic Canada voters that Harper once characterized the region as having "a culture of defeat."... A few days before the election, for example, Defence Minister Peter MacKay, who is the minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, announced ACOA would provide $50,000 for a three-day curling tournament to be held next month in his riding in New Glasgow, N.S., where he is now facing Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

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Unable to sleep after Thursday's English-language debates, Prime Minister Stephen Harper got up at 3 a.m. and tried to unwind by watching the U.S. vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.
He would not say if it helped him sleep.
In an informal chat with reporters Saturday at the ...   more »

Everyone who's anyone in federal politics is in Atlantic Canada today. While Stephen Harper was in Yarmouth, NS., Stéphane Dion was on the other side of the Bay of Fund in Dieppe, NB. While in Dieppe, Dion accused Harper of using a racially charged phrase when responding to a question ...   more »

By happy circumstance, I grabbed the latest issue of the Literary Review of Canada to stuff in my knapsack as I left my home pre-dawn this morning to spend a final couple of days with the Harper campaign. I say it was a happy circumstance because Harper headed east -- ...   more »

In the wake of last night's French-language debates -- which our pollster says Dion did best at -- the war rooms of the major parties have been issuing releases left, right, and centre today. These are some summaries of all of the press releases filling my inbox today. It all ...   more »