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Globe and Mail Update

June 28, 2004 at 6:08 AM EDT

Monday, June 28 -- Voting day
• Canadians cast their votes today
• Martin: stop Harper from becoming PM
• The decline and fall of two political empires
• Layton urges against protest vote
• Leader of Green Party anticipates breakthrough
• Bloc seeks inroads with ethnic voters
• Getting together with powerful separatists
• Thorsell: Want to throw constitutional law out the window?
• Robertson: Canada? What Canada?
• Ibbitson: Ottawa is about to matter less
• MacGregor: In this uncertain election, all possible outcomes set alarm bells ringing
• Spector: What must Jean Chrétien be thinking?
• Editorial: Drop the cynic's pose and get out and vote

  Sunday, June 27

• Campaign enters final day
• Nasty, brutish and short

  Saturday, June 26

• Martin changes plan, battles for the West
• Layton tries to rally soft NDP support
• Leaders' last push for power
• How the Liberals came to grips with Tory tide
• Duceppe poised to be Ottawa kingmaker
• Bloc Leader promises responsibility
• Harper will 'Bushize' Canada, Nader says
• Elections Canada braces for recounts
• Educating Stephen
• MacGregor: Tight election makes B.C. more than just an afterthought
• Reality check: Don't count on knowing outcome on Monday evening
• White harsh critic of justice, immigration systems
• Blatchford: Kissing off the Harper doomsayers
• Wiwa: How politics, religion and profit infect health policy
• Wente: The man who wasn't there
• Simpson: Uncle Fred: I am angry therefore I am Canadian
• Murphy: Dude, it's our election
• Wong: This is why I vote

  Friday, June 25

• Leaders make last push
• Race a dead heat: poll
• Duceppe says he'll back party with best blueprint
• 'The universe is unfolding as it should'
• Reality check: Holding the balance of power -- on alternate days of the week
• New poll puts Tories far ahead in B.C., Grits third
• Risk-free strategy now takes precedence in Harper campaign
• Conservatives target Martin over pension legislation
• Liberals wind up final pitch to Quebec
• Notebook: Watch for PMO shakeup if Grits form government
• MacGregor: For weeks, voters faced an issueless election. That was then. This is now
• Simpson: Why did they let the BQ skate through the campaign?
• Ibbitson: It's govern or nothing for Martin
• Salutin: Ideas on election ideas
• Somerville: How to cool a hot potato

  Thursday, June 24

• Martin can't be trusted on health, Harper says
• Site's sightings lead to bold, successful predictions
• Martin, Duceppe work the crowds in Quebec
• Duceppe rushes to repair damage
• Klein shelves medicare overhaul
• Tight race creates dilemma for Clarkson
• Party with most seats will govern, Martin says
• Whole cabinet shares blame: Martin
• A vote on the way Canada votes
• Reality check: Proportional representation aids democracy
• Dreams of easy ridings fade in S.W. Ontario
• Harper may be called to testify at Arar inquiry
• Local issues take precedence over platforms
• Notebook: Liberal campaign rounds up Harper boos
• Wente: How Paul Martin got his groove back
• Simpson: Exhibit A for the wisdom of the Alliance-PC merger
• Martin: Was it 'just Ralph being Ralph'?
• Editorial: The deceptive cloaks that separatism wears
• MacGregor: Five trips over the Rockies reveal an increasing desire to take a mallet to politicians

  Wednesday, June 23

• Alberta backs down on health care reforms
• Layton would push for 'rebirth' of voting system
• 'Tide of change' coming, Harper says
• 1.2 million cast early vote

• Landry says Bloc sweep will hasten referendum
• Editorial: The Globe's choice for PM
• Alberta tries to ease furor on medicare
• To handlers' relief, Harper hits target
• Bloc targets Liberal Montreal suburbs
• Landry says Bloc sweep will hasten referendum
• Harper contradicts stand on provinces
• Martin may seek to remain in office if party second
• Priest is NDP's star candidate on the Rock
• Doris, dinos behind him, Day focuses on future
• Reality check: Martin ended deficits that began with Liberals
• Simpson: NDP: high energy, high hopes and flat polls
• Gibson: A monstrous idea that won't die

  Tuesday, June 22

• Harper begins final stretch of campaign on the attack
• Native issues get 'scant attention': leaders
• Liberals take six-point lead
• Tory support fell as Harper boasted
• Liberal mantra: Stay on message and don't swing for the fences
• The soccer moms are not impressed
• Layton ready to axe estate-tax plan
• Klein offers to backpedal on health if Martin opens wallet
• Duceppe trumpets Bloc's role in minority government
• Ontario will fight for unity, Premier says
• Bilingualism not required on Air Grit
• Wente: Stephen Harper, mainstream politician?
• Simpson: It's not too late for the Liberals to tell it like it is
• Westell: Minority government? Let's make a deal
• Who knows how to build a future?
• Editorial: What it means to end the Air Canada law
• The politics of Greenery

  Monday, June 21

• Martin maintains attack over health care
• Layton hits Bay Street
• Air Canada plan puts Harper on defensive
• Vote-splitting could hurt in West, Tories say
• Layton plans 22-city blitz
• In separatists' heartland, Grits find the going hard
• Election about the importance of being earnest
• Liberal recruit trails badly in Sherbrooke, latest poll shows
• Chow, Ianno in hot Trinity-Spadina race
• Liberal MP faces Layton, brimming with confidence and ignoring the polls
• Stanford: Harper and McGuinty: Separated at birth?
• Duceppe: Communism taught Duceppe discipline and duty
• Tough guys do so vote
• Editorial: The Conservatives and the judges
• Editorial: An apology, Mr. Harper

  June 19 - June 20

• Harper won't apologize for remarks
• Toronto Liberal MP's office target of protests
• Voter turnout expected to reach all-time low

  Saturday, June 19:

• Tories try to connect Martin to child porn
• Moore turns up heat on Tories and Grits
• Conservatives 32%, Liberals 29%, poll shows
• With his sleeves rolled up, Martin says no election easy
• Lobbyists welcome the prospect of a minority government
• Very careful -- and very private
• One big happy family
• Harper ally questions plan for Senate
• Tory candidate advocates privatization of wheat board
• Martin challenges Klein's timing
• Private, public health long touted by Klein
• The knives come out for Stronach
• Investing in Prime Minister Harper
• Winsor: Attack ads attacked
• Wente: Calm, cool and about to collect
• Simpson: Klein couldn't keep his trap shut on health care
• Murphy: Political debate or pro wrestling?

  Friday, June 18:

• Health battle escalates as leaders trade barbs
• Negativity rules tight race
• Harper's Senate plan questioned
• Poll gives Tories the edge
• Alberta Premier's health-care changes assailed by Martin
• Liberal ads invoke Mulroney's name as a scare tactic
• On Vancouver Island, Layton trumpets NDP as the greenest party
• Stay out of the fray, McGuinty tells premiers
• Eastern Townships offer Tories hope
• Harper works on Quebec votes
• MacGregor: The strategic vote could be friend or foe in the case of the NDP
• Liberals' need to win outweighs all
• Khan: Foreign policy is no political football
• Simpson: Martin's Alberta dreams have turned to ashes
• Salutin: Lefties: Don't panic!
• White: Stephen Harper's secret weapon in Quebec
• Editorial: The folly of rushing into Senate elections

  Thursday, June 17:

• Let the voting begin early
• Harper the headbanger?
• Harper plan for elected Senate gets major boost
• Big trouble for Martin's Quebec star
• Harper talks of transition of power
• Martin borrows stirring words for medicare fight
• Minority-rule talks premature, Bloc says
• Tory child-tax benefit attacked
• NDP tantalized by prospect of sweeping Hamilton
• Ready to play central role, Layton says
• 'Childish' party leaders fail to connect on real issues
• Voters' opinions on Martin worsen after debates, polls show
• Notebook: The prize for most talkative goes to Layton
• Lawrence Martin: Even losing won't defeat Mr. Martin
• Wente: The things Mr. Martin forgot to say
• MacGregor: Though they'd never say it, Liberal 'stars' might prefer defeat to an opposition seat
• Editorial: Why Martin failed to rise in the debates
• Editorial: Subsidies and realpolitik

  Wednesday, June 16:

• Harper's tone reveals election confidence
• Martin starts the stretch run

  Paper coverage

• Debate exposes key differences on protecting minority rights
• Poll gives Harper boost as leaders target Ontario
• Martin camp never expected to be playing defence now
• Leaders change strategy for round two
• Friends scorn the notion that debates matter
• Leaders drop restraint and go for blood
• Tories would act fast to fill court vacancies, Toews says
• Tradition doesn't count in suburban ridings
• Dedicated followers of fashion?
• Other parties stealing Greens' platform, leader says
• Herzog: The Mideast's shadow on Canadian ballot boxes
• Simpson: A sense of political betrayal drives voter anger
• Winsor: Good shows but they mean little in the end
• Notebook: Harper polishes his witty side going into debate
• Ibbitson: Passionate and ruthless, Martin looks like he's fighting to survive

  Tuesday, June 15:

• Leaders debate brings opposing views to light
• Health a hot-potato topic
• Leaders wade into foreign policy
• Analysis: On-line panel calls the debate
• Comment: Views of Canadians
• Moments from the debate

  Paper coverage

• Leaders gang up on Martin
• Simpson: Martin can't dent Duceppe
• Tories edge ahead in new poll
• Employment insurance a hot-button election issue
• So, how did the party leaders perform?
• For leaders, c'est la glare
• Canadians want integrity, Greens say
• Critics rap Harper's performance in French
• Notebook: Liberal justice can be painful
• For Broadbent, campaign is like '68 all over again
• What Joe Clark and Stephen Harper have in common
• Editorial: Just what explains this electoral malaise?

  Monday, June 14:

• Leaders zero in on scandal
• Moments in the debate
• Manitoba Tories throw support behind Martin
• Martin has four hours to save campaign, Liberal MPs caution
• A curious career for a potential kingmaker
• Canada's heritage is at risk, Liberals warn
• Hiring rules finessed to help Coderre
• Health reform anchors party platforms
• Campaign becomes dream team's nightmare
• MacGregor: There's something Green wafting through the air of Saanich-Gulf Islands
• Gagnon: Tonight's TV debate: plus ça change . . .
• Spector: There is more to Mr. Harper
• Patel: Heal medicare in the Commons, not the courts
• Nicholls: Will Elections Canada never learn?
• Editorial: How Grits and Tories juggle military spending

  Saturday, June 12:

• Harper platform promises sweeping change
• Tory platform that would replace Kyoto accord fails to address main cause of global warming
• Voters face 'profound choice,' Martin says
• Cash for municipalities would stay on the table, Tories assure mayors
• Greens leave the political wilderness
• The country is in 'a very cantankerous mood'
• Leaders cram for crucial debates
• Notebook: A cap, a gown and a new Liberal pen pal
• Wente: Politics' energizer bunny
• Simpson: A Conservative wolf in sheep's clothing
• Murphy: Wheel of Grit fortune
• Greenspon: Covering election's shifting tides

  Friday, June 11:

• Duceppe gives Harper another condition
• Ex-Alliance official warns on social agenda
• Confident Harper talks majority
• Martin plans to emphasize his successes as finance minister
• Bloc will stand strong, Duceppe says
• Elections Canada won't enforce results blackout on polling day
• Budget hurt federal Grits, McGuinty says
• Layton pledges to abolish immigration 'head tax'
• Notebook: In the Green corner, the great White hope
• Simpson: CPAC viewers getting their 10 cents worth
• MacGregor: The man from Wild Rose hasn't felt this alive for nearly half a century
• Ibbitson: Not much of this Ontario left
• Dueck: The election's cross to bear
• Editorial: Speaking of Iraq ...

  Thursday, June 10:

• Harper says Liberals falling 'into the gutter'
• Election debate unlikely to sway voters, analyst says
• Social issues dominate another Tory stop
• Bloc slams Tories over Kyoto

  Paper coverage

• Liberals 'are in a spiral,' top Martin adviser says
• Liberals still cling to the lead in survey
• Harper tries to allay fears on abortion
• Sovereignty cash diverted, Bloc concedes
• Liberal candidate faces allegations of mismanaging band funds
• Conservatives, NDP predict gains in North
• Quicker action could have prevented war, Harper says
• Broadbent video goes 'viral' as NDP launches new ad push
• Robinson resists jumping into fray
• NDP candidate rebuked for anti-Semitic remarks
• Notebook: What's in a name? Ask Paul
• Harper needs to turn down his worry meter
• Ibbitson: A blue storm threatens Liberals
• Desbarats: Don't fence Greens out of the TV leaders' debate
• Wente: Tommy's dream can't dodge the spectre of progress

  Wednesday, June 9:

• We're like 'Keystone Kops,' Liberal MP says
• NDP candidate under fire over 1994 Internet posting
• Former Tories back McLellan

  Paper coverage

• U.S. fears unstable Canada
• Tories alleged of hidden agenda on hate crimes
• Bishop lashes Martin for abortion stand
• Tory Leader flying cautiously this week
• Pelletier calls for retraction of comment
• Name those behind scandal, Duceppe challenges Martin
• Layton sees fertile ground in Saskatchewan
• Tories, NDP imperil national unity by working with Bloc, Dion says
• Notebook: Senator Cools abandons Liberal ship for the Tories
• Reality check: Harper goes further than Meech on choosing judges
• Ibbitson: This campaign, it's the Liberals who keep losing the luggage
• Simpson: The indispensable Conservative
• Atwood: The arts go marching one by one
• Editorial: Sorry, I can't say

  Tuesday, June 8:

• Four parties ready to present full rosters
• Saskatchewan should get 'new deal,' NDP says
• Martin picks at Harper on abortion

• Paper coverage

• Harper advocates hate-crime revisions
• Martin won't go to Reagan funeral
• Martin attacks Harper on rights
• Left-of-centre organizations revise plans
• Don't expect quick fix in scandal, Martin says
• Party infighting plagues Brampton riding
• Duceppe taps into anger over EI
• Reality check: Invoking Charter clause scares pants off politicians, Harper notwithstanding
• Notebook: Reagan's tour of duty spent on the big screen
• Winsor: On Harper, media fall for Grit hype
• Ibbitson: Abortion a moot debate
• Simpson: Will B.C. Liberals' star candidates get a chance to shine?
• Manning: All together now: Minority government can be a good thing

  Monday, June 7:

• Minority rights at risk under Tories: Martin
• Harper makes pitch in Quebec

  Paper coverage

• Liberals reach out to women, Quebec
• Election's outcome may depend on B.C.
• Harper agrees to consult first ministers
• The Tories' $90-billion question
• Look closely at Harper, Layton urges
• Campaigners sent knocking in tight races
• Gagnon: Recipe for a Tory Quebec
• Let's hold Grit feet to the fire
• Elmasry: Why Muslims should vote
• Ibbitson: Skewed process must end
• Editorial: The Conservatives' magic new surplus
• Editorial: Abortion and politics

  Sunday, June 6:

• Parties face skeptical voters
• NDP's new strategy targets Harper
• Canadian soldiers in Kabul get up to 6 chances to vote
• Stronach insists politics drives her now

  Saturday, June 5:

• Harper unveils platform with vow to win the race
• Martin brushes off poll showing dead heat
• Newfoundland should be main oil beneficiary: Martin

  Paper coverage

• Liberals, Conservatives in a dead heat, poll suggests
• Layton assails Martin for 'promise broken'
• Tories plan huge health infusion
• Orchard sitting and watching from the sidelines
• Right moves: the evolution of Stephen Harper
• Master's thesis a primer on Harper's fiscal views
• Notebook: Didn't we just take your call?
• Murphy: Leaders are so-so, so we yo-yo
• Simpson: The Bloc is killing the Liberals in Quebec

  Friday, June 4:

• Liberals, Conservatives in a dead heat, poll suggests
• Martin: Same-sex marriage must be allowed
• On health, Tories rip page from Liberal playbook
• Rival leaders look to pounce in Martin's absence

  Paper coverage

• Harper offers big tax cuts
• Minister puts sponsorship scandal back in spotlight
• Liberal daycare plan built on Quebec's
• Martin promises stretch budget to limit
• Muslims urged to go to the polls
• Layton declares gun war
• Parties hope hockey high rubs off
• Social issues hijack Harper's agenda
• Liberals highlight left-right fault line
• Reality check: Grit proposal to build child-care system but far short in scope, financing
• MacGregor: Party's fading in Quebec, but Liberal star expects to shine
• Missing the wave on Green coverage
• Editorial: How far would he go to stop gay marriage?
• Editorial: Harnessing the wind
• Editorial: Child care, recycled

  Thursday, June 3:

• Martin unveils platform, seeks campaign shift
• Just more Liberal promises, NDP and Conservatives say
• Martin unveils platform, seeks campaign shift
• Quebec carries more weight under minority: Bloc
• Tories offer Canadians a tax cut
• Liberal, Tory position on issues
• NDP would outlaw funding to new, private clinics

  Paper coverage

• Liberals plan $5-billion in daycare funds
• Tories aim for tighter links to U.S.
• Top court wouldn't block same-sex law, Harper says
• Attacks haven't allowed Martin to 'be himself,' Liberals feel
• Layton shoots for the breeze on green energy
• Martin playing cheap politics, Duceppe says Liberal attacks were ordered by top officials, sources say
• Not our fault federal party lags, Ontario Liberals say
• Parents encourage political thirst
• MacGregor: Pepperpot Bloc candidate praises Canada and runs against his boss
• Wente: Abortion: The Tories' other flashpoint
• Editorial: Get a grip, Mr. Martin
• Reality check: Turbines are a potential windfall
• Notebook: Belinda and Bill? They're just friends

  Wednesday, June 2:

• Tories eye cuts to corporate subsidies
• Greens seek inclusion in TV debates
• Martin defends Liberal ambush of Harper tour
• In Ontario, Harper basks in new-found popularity
  
  Paper coverage
• Poll prompts Liberal shift
• Bloc wants big gains from any Tory deal
• Harper stands by MP in abortion furor
• Surging Conservatives taken by surprise
• Harper's hardest task may be to form a cabinet
• Harper would get tough on crime
• Martin vows -- in writing -- to kill island bridge
• Simpson: Sins of the provinces shall be visited upon the feds
• MacGregor: In Bloc country, voters prepare to send Liberals a message through the polls
• Notebook: Righteous One or vigorous one?
• Editorial: If the Tories need the Bloc Québécois
• Editorial: Harper's crime package
• Editorial: Anti-Clarity acts
• Reality check: Abortion creeps back on to politicial agenda

  Tuesday, June 1:

• Tories wouldn't outlaw abortion, Harper says
• Martin vows to fight for votes
• Conservatives, Bloc stay away from partnership talk
• Harper would use registry funds to tackle crime
• a minority government works
  
  Paper coverage
• Tide turning Harper's way
• Liberal woes fuel Tory-Bloc theories
• Tory critic wants new abortion rules
• Beleaguered Martin targets Harper
• Clarkson's role could be pivotal
• As promises escalate, so do costs
• Grits feeling the heat in their Ottawa refuge
• NDP hopes to mine Manicouagan discontent
• MacGregor: Rocky corner of Ontario is hard place for Liberals to regain their ground
• Ibbitson: Are Canadians ready for Harper's vision of Canada?
• Simpson: Trojan Horse Jack: Beware Pinocchio bearing gifts
• Winsor: Tactics can cut both ways for anonymous sources
• Reality check: Defence wasn't a hot-ticket item for the Conservatives, either
• Notebook: The Liberal war room is under fire

  Monday, May 31:

• Confident Harper now eyeing a shot at PM job
• Martin turns to Chrétien advisers for help
• Layton slams Liberal cities plan
• Harper pledges to rebuild military
• Crosbie won't run for Tories

  Paper coverage

• Harper: Let MPs deploy military
• Will Martin reap what he has sown?
• Liberals go full Monty on platform
• Martin, Duceppe spar over Bloc slogan
• Chow gets earful from Mills
• Blaikie disagrees with Layton on Clarity Act
• Reality check: Using political math, the Bloc sees 'many' in a few
• MacGregor: Minority governments give Canadians what they like: a lot more grist for griping
• Notebook: The case of the missing campaign signs
• Spector: No wonder so many people don't vote
• Gagnon: The NDP's best friend? The Bloc

  Sunday, May 30:
  

• Grits losing their grip: Tobin
• Duceppe urges reforms to employment insurance
• Lapierre says his 2000 rap of Liberals doesn't apply to PM In a magazine

  Saturday, May 29:
  

• Martin comes out swinging in Quebec
• Punish Martin's Liberals, Layton urges Ontario
• Harper dismisses Layton's call to axe Clarity Act
• Bloc brings out ammunition against Grits
  Paper coverage
• Liberals stung by McGuinty backlash
• Layton would axe Clarity Act
• All substance and no style
• PM to unveil Third World initiatives
• End 'handouts' to Maritimes, McKenna urges
• Gagliano supporters setting up golfing fundraiser
• Harper defends Alberta position
• Notebook: A weather whiz who may know a thing or two about politics
• Urban mayors split politically over sharing gas-tax revenueMartin's caveats leave mayors unsure if pledge is just election-time talk
• Reality check: Martn and the mayors
• Simpson: Alas for Martin, voters 'are mad as hell' at McGuinty
• Blatchford: Lots of room on Flames bandwagon

  Friday, May 28:
  

• Harper zeros in on sponsorship
• Martin's city funding plan wins over mayors
• Crosbie delays decision
• Martin to unveil urban aid
• BlackBerry fuels nasty campaign brush fire
• Gagliano sues for $4.5-million
• Muskoka Liberal dealt setback
• Reality check: Direct line difficult to draw between Martin's 1996 budget and rise in deaths of homeless
• MacGregor: In Ontario, anger is taking the lead in an election bereft of a major issue
• Ibbitson: Politicos forcefully wag the cod
• Winsor: Political researchers spar over duelling seat projections
• Notebook: All aboard the 'Truth Tour'
  
  Thursday, May 27:
  
• Conservative language critic resigns
• Liberals fuming as rivals launch verbal assault
• Tories deny bilingualism program changes
• For Martin, Chrétien sends best wishes and one vote
• Bloc to stand firm in event of minority
• Stumped at the stump
  
  Paper coverage
• Chrétien loyalists sidelined as bitter Liberal rift endures
• Harper offers a plum to Atlantic Canada
• Honk if you love New Democrats: Fundraising fan has bumper crop of enthusiasm
• Layton slams Martin over deaths of homeless
• Bloc excludes English, minorities, Pettigrew charges
• Martin sells health plan to skeptical premiers
• A 'more civilized' kind of politics
• Debates inject reality TV into campaign
• Get digs against America out of the campaign, Harper tells Liberals
• Reality check: Inheritance tax was killed off in Trudeau's 'Just Society'
• Election notebook: Is Martin tired and grumpy or never more vigorous?
• MacGregor: Once a Liberal redoubt, Hamilton is now home to an energized NDP
• Ibbitson: Same-sex marriage may be a non-issue
• Editorial: Grow up and vote
  
  Wednesday, May 26:
  
• NDP's 'moderate' platform heavy on taxes
• 'The kid' is in it to win
• East Coast should keep energy royalties, Harper says
• B.C., Alberta premiers hold health care meeting
• TV debate dates set
  
  Paper coverage:
• Martin's big pledge: $9-billion for health
• Health-care pledge gets poor reviews
• NDP revives inheritance tax scheme
• Harper holds to view of East Coast
• Comeback? Charles Caccia, Trudeau-era minister
• Comeback? John Crosbie, Mulroney's chum
• Few answers as to why young people disengaged
• Reality check: Harper on crime
• Ibbitson: A Nova Scotia perspective: 'People are ticked'
• Simpson: Political slaves of the sacred cow that devours all budgets
• Campbell: Shorter waiting times -- a familiar refrain?
• MacGregor: Candidates outclass issues in suburban riding where Stronach is running
• Election notebook: Loftus Cuddy can't count on his brother to sing praises
  
  Tuesday, May 25:
  
• Martin pledges billions for health without tax boost
• Sticks and stones
• Harper: Atlantic provinces doomed under Liberals
  
  Paper coverage:
• Harper, Martin spar on taxes
• Candidates sweet on Calgary because the puck stops here
• Martin to unveil health-care platform
• Liberals try to make taxes a burden for Harper
• Bloc, Liberals spar over sovereignty
• Vancouver's Chinese ignore rally for Layton
• Harper not likely to make Martin's Day
• Notebook: Deb Grey's political prayer rides in on a GoldWing
• Ibbitson: Your vote has extra value for your party
• MacGregor: A day at the races churns up great clods of election metaphors
• Simpson: Jack Layton is a big, big-government guy
• Nothing but dark clouds in media coverage of Martin
  
  Monday, May 24:
  
• Election campaign beings in earnest
• Tory ad shows truckload of 'wasted' money
  
  Paper coverage:
• Martin waves the flag
• Editorial: Why do they want to govern Canada?
• Raining on Liberals in Mike Harris country
• One tight vote in '04 might lead to another
• How Harper will tackle the health-care monster
• Former NDP leader smells minority
• Martin chasing Trudeau's ghost
• Canadians find Grits most capable to govern, poll finds
• Liberals hurting in Ontario
• Hopes dim for Liberal breakout in British Columbia, poll shows
• In Toronto, it's ebb tide not Red Tide, NDP says
• In Quebec, it's politics unplugged
• NDP has no foothood in Atlantic provinces
• Ridings to watch
  
  Sunday, May 23:
• Martin makes it official
• Leaders come out swinging
• A battle for the regions
• What's at issue in 2004?
• Election guide
• Leader statements: Martin / Harper / Layton
  
  Saturday, May 22:
• Liberals rattled by decline in Ontario
• Tough times for the PMO
• Liberals losing the initiative on health care
• Federal election to be called on Sunday
• D-Day complicates campaign planning
• Federal election to be called on Sunday
  
  Friday, May 21:
• PM plans a modest, $40-billion platform
• Poll finds voters jaded and volatile
• Bank stocks say Liberal minority
• Liberal jabs at Harper's tax statements
  
  Thursday, May 20:
• Liberal support hovers on verge of majority status
• Invective hits pre-election crescendo
• Party war rooms shifting into high gear
• CBC won't commission voter-preference polls
• Greens seek disenchanted
• Liberals give Toronto waterfront $125-million

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