News Roundup

A pretty slow day for election news.

Another poll is out showing the Liberals only 5% ahead of the Conservatives in Ontario. Martin announced his new deal for cities to general applause. Meanwhile John Crosbie has delayed his possible return to politics; the announcement will be Monday now.

As for the two interesting stories going on right now, Jack Layton, instead of backing down from his accusations of Martin killing homeless people, has stepped them up to include Premiers now! Paul Wells thinks the whole thing is overblown.

As for Harper and the bilingualism flap? Well, it seems that the media still wants to give Harper an easy ride. Coverage of Scott Reid's comments appear low down on every news web site. And all the coverage is the same as the articles yesterday. The Conservatives came out with Liberal hypocracy on the issue as a defense, but it seems that it's become so much of a non-issue, that it didn't matter. Instead, Harper's got coverage turned to his plan for economic growth in Atlantic Canada.