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Election Fact Check 2015

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The 2015 federal election promises to be an ugly fight, with a lot of half truths and fact twisting. Together with our allies, rabble.ca will pull together real numbers and evidence to refute the mistruths -- and keep the election on its toes.

The final Fact Check: Measuring the truths and lies of the 2015 election

| October 15, 2015
The final Fact Check: Measuring the truths and lies of the 2015 election

Want to see an election campaign fact rich and spin poor? Chip in to keep our fact check blog up to date.

 

It's the final Friday of the election campaign. Let's just call it fact-check Friday.

rabble.ca's election coverage has included a fact check post each day of the campaign to help you navigate the promises of each of the major promises. With 34 posts to choose from, we understand if it's difficult to keep track, so we've grouped them by topic here.

Check the facts and feel good about your vote on Oct. 19.

Here are all the articles, by topic:

Bill C-51

 

CBC/Radio-Canada

 

Childcare

Corruption

The Economy

 

Education

 

Environment

 

Elizabeth May playing hardball

 

Human rights

 

The Internet

 

Jason Kenney

 

Liberal-NDP beefs

 

Minimum wage

 

Quebec/Rest of Canada divide

 

Party operatives

 

Pharmacare

 

Public sector workers

 

Refugees

 

Seniors

 

Trans-Pacific Partnership

 

Violence against women

 

Canada at war

 

 

Want to see an election campaign fact rich and spin poor? Chip in to keep our fact check blog up to date.

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