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TORONTO — Some of Ford Nation showed up Saturday night to support Stephen Harper at his final evening rally in Toronto Saturday, but it isn’t the crowds that may be the most enduring image of the night for the 2015 Conservative campaign.

OTTAWA — An overall look at everything the three main federal parties have promised in the 2015 election campaign, in terms of both spending and revenues.

OTTAWA — The sweltering summer heat of an August long weekend didn’t stop Prime Minister Stephen Harper from showing up at Rideau Hall in a dark blue suit, crisp white dress shirt and conservative blue tie.

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau hadn’t even been weaned when a sitting United States president first predicted he’d one day become Canada’s political leader. “Tonight we’ll dispense with the formalities.

OTTAWA — It was more Perry Mason than politics as usual, more cross-examination than question period — and observers agree it was probably a key turning point in the electoral fortunes of Tom Mulcair and his New Democrats.

OTTAWA — Three of Elizabeth May’s ancestors signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence. As a girl growing up in Connecticut, she donated her savings to help promising candidates get elected to Congress. And future U.S.

MONTREAL — Justin Trudeau says the actions of his national campaign co-chairman, who gave advice to an oil pipeline company on how to lobby a new government, were inappropriate and he supports his resignation.

OTTAWA — A look at key developments Friday on the federal campaign trail: Canadians voted at advance polls and two more party platforms were released in full, but religion, race and refugees continued to generate most of the election heat.

SASKATOON — Sheri Rudoski was beaming as she left a speech Stephen Harper delivered to parents and wailing babies in Saskatoon on Wednesday.

TORONTO — A long-time expat was finally able to vote in his old riding on Saturday, a day after Elections Canada officials turned him away. A much relieved Will Gartshore, of Washington, D.C.