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A leading academic expert on blackface in Canada says Trudeau’s lapse wasn’t unusual for the time, but this campaign disaster is anything but ordinary

Paul Wells: The Liberal campaign is built around a sophisticated oppo research organization that says their opponents are bad people. Where does it stand now?

Politics Insider for Sept. 18: Bernier the longshot, the double-digit deficit nobody cares about and Rick Mercer goes on a well-deserved rant

Election Image of the Day: A Liberal in New Brunswick is one of three candidates whose signs are defaced with swastikas

Philippe J. Fournier: The debate commission ruled Bernier’s party has a legitimate shot at winning more than one seat. The 338Canada model suggests not.

Politics Insider for Sept. 17: Bernier invited to debates, Trudeau ’supports’ the CBC and the Liberals and Conservatives fight over who’s got more Faith

Stephen Maher: By meeting the organizer’s threshold, the PPC leader earned his ticket—but it shouldn’t extend to equal air time on our TVs as the frontrunners

Election Image of the Day: A comically contrived photo-op reflects the state of the campaign: reduced to scripted platitudes about the middle class

Stephen Maher: The party is using pre-recorded voice actors and a controversial technology that the Liberals abandoned at the last moment

As the 2019 campaign gets rolling, consider what made the 2015 election so unusual—results that were more than acceptable for all three major parties