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Election Extra: So it begins
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When the writ is dropped, it’s a signal for our newsroom to fire up Election Extra.
So, here’s the first instalment of your campaign compendium, a weekly curated political package to get you ready for voting day on April 28.
We know you’ve got lots going on in your life and keeping an eye on the hustings is not always possible.
But no need to worry. Our newsroom team at Election Extra has your back.
After reading what we deliver straight to your inbox, you’ll have what you need to decide what you put into the ballot box.
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Paul Samyn, Free Press Editor
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TOP NEWS
Erik Pindera:
Poilievre floats oil exports out of Churchill port
Posted: 12:50 PM CDT Saturday, Mar. 29, 2025
At a campaign stop in Winnipeg Saturday morning, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has promised to further expand the Port of Churchill and come up with a plan to export oil and other products out of Manitoba’s Arctic seaport.
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Craig Lord, The Canadian Press:
Canada’s federal leaders are pitching big tax changes. How would they work?
Posted: 9:53 AM CDT Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2025
The Liberal, NDP and Conservative parties have promised broad tax cuts and other reforms as they work to win over voters in the early days of the federal election campaign. Here's a closer look at how those proposals would operate — and who stands to benefit the most from them.
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OPINION AND ANALYSIS
Editorial:
Hello voters: it’s time to do your job
Posted: 2:00 AM CDT Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2025
Well, here we go. But this time, perhaps it’s going to be just a little bit different. Sunday, the federal election began, and political parties immediately jumped across the starting line.
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Dan Lett:
Looks like Carney has the cards, and Trump has given them to him
Posted: 2:56 PM CDT Friday, Mar. 28, 2025
It is often difficult during an election campaign to identify the moment when the race is over. However, this year, a simple phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Liberal Leader Mark Carney may be that mythical, seminal moment.
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Editorial:
Hitching your wagon to the king of chaos
Posted: 2:00 AM CDT Friday, Mar. 28, 2025
It must have seemed like such a perfect plan. A foolproof strategy. A can’t-lose proposition. A pothole/pitfall-free runway right to the front gate of the prime minister’s residence.
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David McLaughlin:
Elections and the strategy of ballot questions
Posted: 2:02 AM CDT Saturday, Mar. 29, 2025
Every election turns on who can best set and win their “ballot question" — that question voters will have uppermost in their minds when they vote. Conservatives had been working with “Do you want change or Trudeau?” But now Mark Carney leads the Liberals, and Canadians are tuning into a new question: “Who is the best leader to deal with Donald Trump?”
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MANITOBA RIDING NEWS
Kevin Rollason:
Tories beat other parties in nominating Manitoba candidates
Posted: 6:26 PM CDT Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2025
Four days into the upcoming federal election, the last two Tory candidates to officially be chosen have begun campaigning, which means the Conservatives are the first party to field a full slate of candidates in Manitoba’s 14 ridings.
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Kevin Rollason:
Bergen recruited to help Tory win Winnipeg riding
Posted: 6:29 PM CDT Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2025
Candice Bergen, a controversial former MP for a rural Manitoba riding, has been enlisted to help a Tory candidate snag the Winnipeg seat held by retiring Liberal Dan Vandal.
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PROMISE TRACKER
What the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP have promised, so far, to deliver if elected. For more details on these commitments, see our more comprehensive promise tracker online.
Conservatives
- Allow Canadians to defer capital gains tax if they reinvest those earnings in Canada.
- Expand the tax writeoff that trade workers can declare for work travel.
- Stop businesses from writing off luxury corporate jets.
- Pass a law to impose mandatory life sentences for people found guilty of trafficking fentanyl on a large scale, and for people who are convicted of five or more counts of human trafficking and exporting 10 or more illegal firearms.
- Allow Canadians to contribute another $5,000 — for a total of $12,000 a year — in a tax-free savings account, provided they invest that extra money in Canadian companies.
- Keep the retirement age at 65, allow working seniors to earn up to $34,000 tax-free, and allow seniors to keep their savings in an RRSP until age 73, up from 71.
- Maintain existing federal dental-care, pharmacare and child-care programs.
- Eliminate the GST on purchases of new homes for up to $1.3 million.
- Help make it more attractive for municipalities to free up land, speed up permits and cut development charges to build more homes.
- A 2.25 percentage point income-tax cut said to save a dual-income family $1,800 per year.
- Drop the lowest income tax bracket from 15 to 12.75 per cent.
- Expand trades training halls and provide direct grants and faster access to employment insurance for apprentices in licensed trades.
- Create “shovel-ready zones” and/or a national energy corridor with pre-approved permits for major resource or energy projects such as mines, liquefied natural gas plants, or pipelines.
- “Set a deadline” to approve all federal permits for mining in northwestern Ontario’s Ring of Fire region within six months.
- Commit $1 billion over three years to build a road network to link Ring of Fire mining sites to Ontario’s highway network and First Nations communities in the area.
- Repeal the entire carbon pricing law for consumers and big industry.
- To reduce emissions, “expand eligibility” for the clean technology and clean manufacturing tax credits and “reward” businesses that make products with emissions lower than the world average.
Liberals
- Double Canada’s rate of residential housing construction over the next decade to nearly 500,000 new homes per year.
- Invest $5 billion into a new trade diversification corridor fund to build the infrastructure that would help diversify Canada’s trade partners and create jobs.
- Authorize Canadian ports to co-operate instead of compete and strengthen the security of ports to stop the flow of drugs, illegal guns and stolen cars.
- Build a $2-billion strategic response fund to help the auto sector, a Canadian auto manufacturing network and “leverage government funding” to prioritize Canadian-built vehicles.
- Modernize the recruitment process for the Canadian Armed Forces and address a shortage of CAF members.
- Accelerate defence spending to get to the two per cent NATO target “by or before” 2030.
- A one-point cut to the middle class tax rate said to save a dual income family up to $825 a year.
- Waive the one-week waiting period for employment insurance for those who lose their jobs to U.S. tariffs.
- Temporarily allow Canadian businesses to defer income tax and GST and HST payments to help boost their liquidity.
- Cancel a proposed plan to hike the inclusion rate on capital gains, first pitched in the federal budget last year, that would have seen all businesses and individuals reporting more than $250,000 in capital gains in a year pay more tax on those proceeds.
- Invest $187-million to repair and rebuild critical infrastructure in Jasper National Park.
- Eliminate GST for first-time homebuyers on homes sold at or under $1 million.
- Expand the Canadian Armed Forces’ presence in the Arctic and turn to Australia’s over-the-horizon radar tech to monitor threats from adversaries like China and Russia.
- $253 million in new funding for Indigenous reconciliation initiatives in the North.
NDP
- Retrofit 3.3 million homes with energy-saving measures such as heat pumps, air sealing and insulation, and pay for it by cutting supports for big oil and gas companies. 2.3 million low-income households would receive the retrofits free of charge, and 1 million could finance with low-cost loans.
- Introduce emergency price caps on basic food items, covering foods like pasta, frozen vegetables and infant formula.
- Enforce a mandatory grocery code of conduct to regulate prices, empower the Competition Bureau to act as a watchdog and tax profits from the country’s biggest grocery chains.
- Reform the Nutrition North subsidy program.
- Ban corporations from buying affordable rental buildings and stop corporate landlords “who gouge their tenants” from getting things like low-interest federal loans, preferential tax treatment and mortgage loan insurance.
- Boost the rental protection fund to help non-profits buy affordable apartments.
- Boost employment insurance and give all money collected from counter-tariffs to workers and communities hit the hardest.
- Mandate that federal departments and agencies buy vehicles that were made in Canada.
- “Use every legal tool available” to stop companies that have received public money from taking auto plants, machinery and tools out of the country.
- Cut taxes by increasing the basic personal amount of income exempted from taxes to $19,500.
Cut the GST from things like diapers, grocery store meals, and bills for cellphones, internet and heating.
- Raise the guaranteed income supplement for seniors.
- Use federal Crown land to build more than 100,000 rent-controlled homes over the next 10 years.
- $1 billion over five years to acquire more public land for rent-controlled home construction.
- Train 100,000 more people in skilled trades.
- Cancel Canada’s F-35 contracts and build jets in Canada instead.
- Bolster Canada’s Arctic with new defence spending, building marine search and research stations, increasing pay for soldiers and building northern community infrastructure.
—Compiled by The Canadian Press.
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