Where the leaders are on Day 3

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Stephen Harper: The Conservative Leader begins Day 3 just outside Victoria, where he's gunning to win back the riding of Esquimalt and help incumbent Conservative Gary Lunn fend off challenges from the Liberals and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

The Tories are withholding the location of the 9 a.m. PT event, likely to avoid giving protestors advance notice. "Members of the media are asked to meet at Victoria Airport/Sidney Travelodge, 2280 Beacon Avenue, Sidney, British Columbia, at 8:00 a.m. for transportation to the event site," the Conservatives say.

Ms. May is running against Mr. Lunn in the riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands. And the Tories also want to win Esquimalt, which has no incumbent after Liberal Keith Martin quit politics. He is a former Canadian Alliance MP who crossed the floor to the Liberals.

Next, Mr. Harper flies to Edmonton where he'll try to help the Tories recapture Edmonton-Strathcona riding from the NDP. New Democrat Linda Duncan ousted Conservative Rahim Jaffer in a tight 2008 campaign race. It's the only seat in Alberta the Tories didn't capture in the last election.

The rally with local candidates takes place in the next door riding of Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont at 4:30 p.m. MT at École Bellevue School, 5103 - 50th Avenue Beaumont, Alta. Tory Mike Lake is the incumbent, having won the riding by a huge margin in 2008.

Michael Ignatieff: The Liberal Leader is in Toronto Monday - his first campaign stop in the competitive GTA - for a day of "waste." He and Ajax-Pickering MP, Mark Holland, are at the Fairmont Royal York, near the site of the G20 summit (Liberals are calling it "scene of the crime") to talk about government waste. Expect to hear about the cost of fake lakes and gazebos.

That's in the morning. In the afternoon, Mr. Ignatieff campaigns with Markham MP John McCallum and Ontario Minister of Tourism and Culture Michael Chan; they'll be meeting with Chinese-Canadian business owners.

And the day ends with a rally in Mississauga, where Omar Algahbra is trying to take back the riding he lost in 2008 to Tory Bob Dechert. It's overnight in Toronto and off to B.C. Tuesday.

Jack Layton: The NDP Leader takes his tour bus to Saskatchewan on Monday, where his party placed a close second in a number of ridings in recent elections but had no actual success.

The New Democrats were shut out of the province that is Conservative from north to south with the lone exception of Liberal Ralph Goodale in the Regina constituency of Wascana. The NDP would especially like to take back Palliser, which was held by Dick Proctor, a New Democrat, from 1997 to 2004.

Mr. Layton will make two stops in that riding where his party is hoping that Regina lawyer Noah Evanchuk can bump off the Conservative incumbent Ray Boughen. But the New Democratic candidate was 3,000 votes behind Mr. Boughen in the last election when the ballots were counted so the NDP has a lot of ground to make up.

The NDP Leader will speak to supporters at a rally in Regina in the morning and follow that with another event at Mr. Evanchuk's campaign office in Moose Jaw in the afternoon.

On Monday night, the NDP plane flies to Hamilton, Ont., but here are no events scheduled there until Tuesday.

New Democrat incumbent Dave Christopherson has a solid lead for the party in Hamilton Centre. But his caucus colleague Chris Charlton faces a strong challenge from former Liberal MPP and cabinet minister Marie Bountrogianni in Hamilton Mountain. And Wayne Marston could use some support in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, where the Liberals are always a factor.

Gilles Duceppe: It may be the most anticipated unveiling of the Bloc campaign so far, and it's not the party platform or a new star candidate. No, the Bloc Québécois is finally getting some proper transportation, three days into the campaign.

While other campaigns have already jetted to all corners of the Canada, the Bloc spent Day 1 in a Montreal hotel room and Day 2 in the suburbs with a short-term rental bus. Monday morning, the bloc unveils a fleet of shiny buses decked in party colours that it will use to comb Quebec until the May 2 vote.

Mr. Duceppe will continue the cautious first week of his campaign today, hitting the ridings of three incumbent MPs who are relatively safe in their suburban Montreal, francophone ridings.