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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
- The Liberals were not forced to support C-51. They just chose to.
- Teasing out the bunk and the junk from the Munk debate
CBC/Radio-Canada
Childcare
- Liberal attacks against NDP child-care plan more rhetoric than truth
- Fact-checking Adam Vaughan and $15-per-day child care
Corruption
The Economy
- If the TPP is good for the auto sector, why is Harper promising $1B to save it?
- Will Stephen Harper create 1.3 million jobs by 2020?
- NDP plan will cost 'at least' 250,000 jobs, Conservatives warn
- Will Mulcair usher in austerity?
- How will this affect average Canadians?
- Fact-checking the deficit
- Stephen Harper tests voters' credulity in Globe economy debate
Education
- The Liberals' band-aid fix for student aid will help some students, not all
- Harper's 'savings' plan for post-secondary education
- Tax credit for school supply purchases
Environment
Elizabeth May playing hardball
Human rights
- Conservatives vow sanctions will punish human rights abusers abroad
- Harper's warning of refugee security threats is cynical fearmongering
- Can bombs stop the creation of more refugees?
- Chris Alexander calls Canada 'model of humanitarian action'
- Teasing out the bunk and the junk from the Munk debate
The Internet
- Fact-checking the Conservatives' rural broadband strategy
- Canadians likely to lose more than they gain under TPP
- Unlike those other guys, Harper loves movies and hates Netflix taxes
Jason Kenney
- Can Canada bomb ISIS without hurting civilians? Jason Kenney thinks so.
- Harper's warning of refugee security threats is cynical fearmongering
Liberal-NDP beefs
Minimum wage
Quebec/Rest of Canada divide
- Stephen Harper's bald-faced lies about the CBC
- Untangling the NDP and Bloc's pipeline wrangling in Quebec
- Will Mulcair usher in austerity?
- Teasing out the bunk and the junk from the Munk debate
Party operatives
- Just how 'old boys club' is former Liberal campaign co-chair Dan Gagnier?
- Is Conservative spin-doctor Lynton Crosby really the worst?
Pharmacare
Public sector workers
Refugees
- Is Conservative spin-doctor Lynton Crosby really the worst?
- Harper's warning of refugee security threats is cynical fearmongering
- Can bombs stop the creation of more refugees?
- Chris Alexander calls Canada 'model of humanitarian action'
- Stephen Harper tests voters' credulity in Globe economy debate
- Teasing out the bunk and the junk from the Munk debate
Seniors
Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Canadians likely to lose more than they gain under TPP
- The TPP puts Big Pharma in the driver's seat of Canada's health system
- If the TPP is good for the auto sector, why is Harper promising $1B to save it?
- Should Canada's dairy industry fear the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Violence against women
Canada at war
- Can Canada bomb ISIS without hurting civilians? Jason Kenney thinks so.
- Conservatives vow sanctions will punish human rights abusers abroad
- Harper's warning of refugee security threats is cynical fearmongering
- Chris Alexander calls Canada 'model of humanitarian action'
- Teasing out the bunk and the junk from the Munk debate
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