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The NDP leader was at his most compelling when he was mad, and standing up for a cause. It helped him emerge from the first debate looking like the winner.

It should be easy to look prime ministerial when the Prime Minister isn’t at the debate. But Scheer couldn’t quite pull it off.

Scheer aimed to highlight trust-plus-affordabilty, while May declared the status quo obsolete. But Singh hit his marks most consistently with his focus on fighting the power.

Jaime J. Weinman: The U.S. debate was like Saturday Night Live, while the Canadian debate, appropriately enough, was more like SCTV

From Renée Zellweger making a comeback as Judy Garland to Joaquin Phoenix playing the Joker to Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx’s dramatic retelling of a Harvard law graduate’s fight for those wrongfully convicted in the South—the 14 TIFF films you’ll likely see at the Academy Awards

Tabatha Southey: Between the Greens’ ’own-goaling,’ the NDP being short of good enough, the Conservatives wanting to erase Andrew Scheer’s 2005, and the Liberals’ knack at keeping SNC in the news—here’s how each party stands at the opening of election season

Election Image of the Day: No one knows better than the Liberals that people in the news business are just scraping by

Here’s where the parties stand on issues affecting Indigenous people and their sometimes fraught relationship with Ottawa

Where each of the parties stand on the increasingly top-of-mind issue of climate change—and what they propose to do about it

Philippe J. Fournier: A flurry of new polls are out to mark the start of the federal election campaign. They put the Liberals one seat shy of a majority.