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One election promise made by the Liberal party was to change parental leave provisions for Canadian parents. Now that you are Prime Minister, please do change parental leave. But when you do, we urge you to carefully consider what changes should take priority.  

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The claim: The Liberals say the NDP's national child-care program will be impossible to implement. Is that true?

With Harper out in the stratosphere of the right wing, the Liberals and NDP are now vying to take the most votes among centrist voters. And nothing says "centrism" more than fighting an election campaign on something as fundamental as child care.

In the first week of February 2015, the House of Commons will vote on Kingston MP Ted Hsu's private member's bill calling for restoration of Canada's long-form census. Although research methods and data analysis are not ordinarily popular or newsworthy topics, there has been considerable media and public attention to the details of how Canada has turned its data clock back to the year 1956, or 1871, or 1666, depending on how you look at it.