Day 1 of our coverage of the Federal Election featured:
- Breaking news about the exclusion of the Green Party from the upcoming leaders' debates and Elizabeth May's threat to seek an injunction;
- the Free Press revealing that Prime Minister Harper won't meet with their editorial board, while at the same time Stephane Dion won't return the calls of Corus Radio's Roy Green requesting an interview;
- that Dion didn't know what a 'car pool' was, and gave out the URL of the Green Shift company that the Liberal lawyers argued can't be confused with their use of the term;
- and with Jim Maloway entering the federal arena for the NDP, a name surfaced of a possible candidate in the upcoming provincial by-election to replace him -- Phil Walding, son of the former Speaker of the Legislature Jim Walding who took down the Pawley government in 1986.
Mainstream media can't cover it all. Space and time limitations, staffing shortages, direction from their bosses, all factor into what you will and won't hear, see, and read. By culling various media resources we will try to bring as much information about the Parties and their campaigns forward, so you voters can form your own best judgement about which candidates to support.
Today we look deeper into the red flags being tossed at Manitoba Hydro by the Public Utilities Board, more updates on the federal election, as well MPI's Brian Smiley joins us; tomorrow Councillor Jeff Browaty appears in-studio to cover the civic issues as he sees them; and in the meantime we'll see if we hear back from the Green Party about the question we asked of their "Group of 4".
