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Before we start the election preview in Canada it will be worth noting we are not going to have the complete picture of Canada's vote on election night Monday. Elections Canada estimating more than one million mail-in ballots that will be added to the totals beginning Tuesday. Massive COVID spending by Canada's federal government has driven its national debt over the one trillion dollar mark the inflation monster looming in the shadows already being felt in vastly higher housing prices. Foreign investment being blamed for the housing cost "bubble" with politicians pledging ot do something about it in this year's...

Ottawa — At least 48 Liberal MPs have publicly declared that they are against legalizing same-sex marriage, the most opposition Jean Chrétien has faced from his own caucus to one of his laws since coming into office 10 years ago. A Globe and Mail survey of all Liberal MPs found 60 in favour of the government's proposed bill to legalize same-sex marriage, 48 opposed and 27 undecided. Twenty-nine refused to answer and seven could not be reached. That Liberal opposition — combined with MPs from other parties who are against the legislation — throws into doubt whether the bill, to...