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Conservative leadership candidates took the stage Wednesday in Edmonton for what turned into an unorthodox, wide-ranging debate that featured discussions about the war in Ukraine, abortion and supply management — with detours on the topics of binge-worthy TV shows and the candidates' current reading

Seven News political editor Mark Riley says he’ll use “a chair and a whip” to control Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese in the third and final leaders’ debate and avoid a repeat of Sunday night’s “spectacle”.

The Leaders' Debates Commission (LDC) has now gained the lessons of two election cycles... The report that follows set outs what we have accomplished, what we have learned, and what can be built for the future.

The Greens have proposed a new independent commission following what they say was a farcical leaders’ debate between Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese this past weekend.

Janice Folk-Dawson was “outraged” when she learned the Northern Ontario Leaders Debate held in North Bay Tuesday was charging $125 a head to attend.

The report, which provides an assessment of the Commission's 2021 federal election experience, puts forward 11 recommendations for improving and ensuring leaders' debates better serve the public interest.

The next federal election debates should have a simpler format and better moderation to focus more on what leaders say than what they are asked, says the commission that oversees the events.

For 90 minutes the leaders of Ontario’s four top political parties traded gibes and tried to score their points.

The last six years should have taught us better; instead, it has benefited from and has fueled a well-oiled digital machine of lies and myths.

The second leaders’ debate of the election campaign, hosted by Channel Nine, attracted 641,000 viewers, however the network’s own employees have criticised the format as a “shambles”.

Terrenos baldíos, protección de bosques, tratamiento de la ganadería, cultivos agroextensivos y cuidado de recursos ecológicos fueron los ejes del debate sobre medioambiente de Noticias Caracol que contó con la participación de los candidatos presidenciales Rodolfo Hernández, Sergio Fajardo y