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Democracy demands informed choices, and those are facilitated best when voters get to hear candidates answer unscripted questions in debates sponsored by independent, nonpartisan groups.

Newmarket-Aurora Progressive Conservative candidate Dawn Gallagher Murphy, who is hoping to replace departing incumbent Health Minister Christine Elliott, did not attend the debate due to a “scheduling conflict."

Why do we have leaders’ debates?

Candidates so deferential to their bosses, so willing to short-change the people of their ridings, are a discredit to democracy and an embarrassment to themselves.

Najib Razak has challenged DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang to a debate in English.

C'est peu dire cette année qu'il faut redoubler d'efforts pour convaincre les candidats aux législatives de participer à un débat.

Two nurses were injured while protesting outside the provincial election debate on Monday, a provincial health care worker union said.

Some quarters suggested that the recent publicly held debate between Datuk Seri Mood Najib Razak and Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is a sign of “maturing politics” and can lead to “more” democracy in our country.

Officials with the Tennessee Democratic Party say they will host three gubernatorial debates ahead of the upcoming August primary election.

Citing concerns with the bipartisan Utah Debate Commission, the Utah Republican Party is moving ahead with plans to sponsor its own debates between primary contenders for Senate and Congress.

... when Alabama voters go to the polls Tuesday, they will do so without seeing any televised statewide debates...

Ontario’s four main party leaders were relatively civil as they sparred at Monday night’s televised election debate in Toronto.