The Globe and Mail - On the hustings

The long way home

Globe and Mail Staff — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:33 EDT

Over the 37-day-campaign, Stephen Harper's tour visited 63 Canadian communities and his plane covered 43,990 kilometres in 68 hours of flying time. His tour bus travelled 4,850 kilometres. Between bus and plane, the distance travelled is the equivalent of going around the earth one and a quarter times - Follow link to read full post

Stephen and Stephane: the Unlikely Pairing

schase — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:31 EDT

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper inadvertently and unintentionally proposed a Tory-Liberal coalition government Monday night as he flubbed a line during his last stop of the campaign. As he has throughout the campaign, Mr. Harper framed the October 14 election as a decision between the steady hand - Follow link to read full post

Thanksgiving on the campaign trail

ggalloway — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:27 EDT

It's Thanksgiving. But family dinners with turkey and pumpkin pie are not happening this year for the boys (and girls) on the election buses. So NDP Leader Jack Layton's family brought a little bit of holiday cheer to the reporters and crew who have been following him across the country for the past - Follow link to read full post

Jack Layton doesn't like Britney Spears

ggalloway — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:26 EDT

Jack Layton's admission came during an interview for MuchMusic in Toronto on Monday. The NDP Leader, who was perched on a plexiglass cube filled with stuffed animals, chatted with hosts Devon Soltendiek and Hannah Simone about a wide range of topics including cuts to culture programs, the leadership - Follow link to read full post

Dion's long and winding road

jtaber — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:12 EDT

St�phane Dion's election adventure, according to his team of strategists, has taken him over these past 37 days (one more to go) across Canada, travelling for about 73 hours over 48,000 kilometres (on his clunky Boeing 737) by air. The Grits have also spent 62 hours on their bus eating up nearly 5 - Follow link to read full post

Body by Google

Jane Taber — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:44 EDT

Miranda Hussey, a political blogger and Young Liberal from the riding of Oak Ridges-Markham, went campaigning on Sunday with Liberal Leader Stephane Dion at the Norwood Thanksgiving Country Fair just east of Peterborough, Ont. She was sporting a novel campaign button, one that took aim at the Conservatives - Follow link to read full post

A kitchen table of his very own

ggalloway — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:20 EDT

In the 35 days of this election campaign, NDP Leader Jack Layton has done a lot of talking about the issues that Canadian families discuss at the kitchen table. But he hasn't actually sat at one. The reporters on his plane corrected that omission Saturday night at the Montreal airport. They purchased - Follow link to read full post

Dion's infrastructure pledge draws union endorsement

jtaber — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19 EDT

The 28,000-member Labourers International Union Local 183 of Toronto is endorsing Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and will be pulling out their members for the vote Tuesday. Michael O'Brien, the union's recording secretary, made the endorsement Saturday at a rally in Vaughan, Ont., a riding that has been - Follow link to read full post

There are supporters - and then there are fans

ggalloway — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:17 EDT

Lots of people were pleased to meet Jack Layton when he strolled through a Montreal market on Saturday. Gabriela Rolls was bouncing up and down with the sort of excitement that 14-year-olds like her normally reserve for rock stars. Ms. Rolls conscripted a friend to take a picture of her with the NDP - Follow link to read full post

Coast to coast in a day

jtaber — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:17 EDT

The Dion Liberals are emulating the Paul Martin Grits of 2004 by ending the campaign with a coast-to-coast whistlestop/tarmac tour. Their 30-year-old Air Inuit Boeing 737 will fly from Fredericton – a riding the Liberals had held with Andy Scott, who is not running this time around – on - Follow link to read full post