Pundit panel: what closing messages should the leaders make to voters?

‘I’m not sure there has ever been an election in Canadian history where the ballot question lined up so perfectly in one candidate’s favour,’ says former Liberal PMO staffer Dan Arnold.
Day 34: Poilievre returns to Vancouver Island, Carney speaks at First Nations conference on last campaign Friday

Plus, the pundit panel weighs in on the closing message the leaders will want to give to voters.
Day 33: Sure, but are they funny?

Plus, Doug Ford headlines a policy summit in Toronto.
‘A very classy man’: Ex-Trudeau and Turner minister Ed Lumley has died

Plus, journalist groups hand out this year’s Code of Silence Awards, a former PMO staffer launches his own polling firm, and a new book on medical assistance in dying is out this week.
Day 32: Poilievre in Nova Scotia

Plus, the Conservative leader made his case to the AFN.
Canada Growth Summit dives into unleashing country’s potential in Toronto on April 24

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 Bruce Heyman to Deliver Remarks—Former U.S. ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman, now CEO of Power Sustainable, will deliver remarks on the environment at a lunch event hosted by the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations. Wednesday, April 23, at 11:30 a.m. ET at a location to be announced in Montreal. Details: corim.qc.ca. Panel: […]
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Day 31: Carney in Quebec, Poilievre sets out to take back Vaughan, and Singh campaigns with a former Alberta premier

Plus, the Conservatives will release their costed election platform today.
Poilievre is a ‘classic political ripper,’ says author of new bestselling biography

Mark Bourrie says Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre is as much about the failings of modern political parties and the Canadian media as it is about Pierre Poilievre.
Fiscal Choices takes a sober look at economic dimensions of pandemic

The following is an excerpt from Michael M. Atkinson and Haizen Mou’s, Fiscal Choices: Canada After the Pandemic, one of the five finalists for this year’s Donner Prize, the best public policy book of the year.