Canada

Viewership up, but format questions remain for leaders' debates

The viewership for Monday's leaders' debate was far higher than contests in the last election, despite complaints that the format favoured conflict over substance.

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Oct 08, 2019

Canada

Canada election: Key moments from the leaders' debate

For the first time, all Canada's main party leaders were on stage together, in what is likely to have been the most watched TV debate in this federal election campaign.

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Oct 08, 2019

Canada

Trudeau didn’t win Canada’s latest election debate. This candidate did.

The formats and medium of modern leaders’ debates tend to encourage shallowness and repetition. The goal of the debater isn’t to “win” by advancing the better argument, but rather to repeat slogans and fire off one-liners that will get picked up by viewers and, ideally, the media.

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Oct 08, 2019

Canada

Two right-wing media outlets win legal battle to attend the leaders' debate

Two right-wing media organizations have won a legal battle to obtain accreditation for their representatives to cover tonight’s election debate.

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Oct 07, 2019

Canada

Canada leaders' debate: tarnished Trudeau puts climate crisis at heart of election

On a crowded stage where debate often devolved into a cacophony of crosstalk, Canada’s federal leaders – including a fringe far-right candidate – have sought to sway voters before the country’s election.

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Oct 07, 2019

Canada

True North journalist takes accreditation fight to court after being barred from leaders’ debate

True North reporter Andrew Lawton is taking the federal government to court for its decision to deny him media accreditation for the English language federal leaders’ debate on Monday.

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Oct 07, 2019

Canada

Election debate moderator had dinner with Trudeau’s disgraced top advisor week before debate

Huffington Post Canada’s Ottawa bureau chief and upcoming election debate moderator Althia Raj dined with Justin Trudeau’s best friend and disgraced former principal secretary Gerald Butts Sunday evening, a week before the official leaders’ English debate.

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Oct 07, 2019

Canada

Election debate moderator had dinner with Trudeau’s disgraced top advisor week before debate

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Oct 07, 2019

Canada

The Post Millennial

How to watch the Leaders' Debate in Halifax

The debates will be moderated by members from nine different media outlets that make up the Canadian Debate Production Partnership.

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Oct 05, 2019

Canada

Kielburger: Debates are rare time to see leaders pressed and unscripted

The debate becomes very important — being able to hear these leaders unscripted, pressed by moderators, pressed by one another, to respond to important questions of the day, when so much else that we hear from them comes in a more scripted form. We see their character, their temperament in how they

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Oct 04, 2019

Canada

The London Free Press

'Everybody's got a camera phone': Navigating the digital minefield of modern-day campaign debates

Organizers say the events are important as voters get a chance to see their candidates up close. But some political watchers suggest the debates, mostly in the federal arena, only matter in tight races. Also, that the local candidate is almost a non-factor, as many voters make their decisions based

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Oct 03, 2019

Canada

5 Standout Moments From The 1st French Leaders’ Debate

Four federal party leaders faced off Wednesday in the first 2019 election debate to include Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. The debate on TVA — the largest private television station in Quebec — featured Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Québécois Yves-François

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Oct 03, 2019

Canada

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