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Tonight is the first debate night of the federal election. Will it be another evening of softball questions? Regardless, you can count on the post-debate tabloid news coverage filled with sensational assertions that someone “won the debate.” Already, election campaign news coverage has been bad enough to leave you thinking every debate has been lost before they’ve even started.
 
Big media seems to always get the news wrong. The tone of this election campaign is already limiting the frame of debate to familiar themes — ranging from the ideological — like which candidate is the most free market-friendly — to the nebulous — who is more pro-middle class. You can pass on the weak tea served up by corporate media and support ethical, independent, journalism that doesn’t dance around Harper’s worldview — but actually combats it. Support rabble.ca now.
 
When Stephen Harper called an early election on Sunday he plunged the country in to the longest campaign in modern Canadian history. He defended his actions and claimed that the move wasn’t about the size of his war chest. The Globe and Mail was standing by ready to do their duty as good corporate journalists and parrot his words: “This campaign will not be about money.” Harper’s friends at The Globe pushed out an editorial roughly on par with their 2011 election endorsement of the Harper Conservatives where they gave buffoonish praise to Harper’s “bullheadedness.” Well, Harper is as bullheaded as ever and we know it. Rather than act as apologist ideologues, we’re busy letting you know all about Harper’s cheat-to-win plans.
 
Burn that bridge when you come to it. Cancel your Globe subscriptions if you haven’t already and sign up as a rabble.ca monthly donor today. 
 
Our editorial plans are bigger than ever — and they have to be given the length of the campaign. You can directly support rabble’s efforts to assemble an aggregated fact-check of the election.
 
Tune in tonight at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST to follow and participate in our live coverage of the debate with freelance writer and reporter Mick Sweetman here.
 
Friday morning we’ll further unpack the spin with coverage from our award-winning Parliamentary Correspondent Karl Nerenberg.
 
Stay tuned for all of our election coverage on our stand-alone election page here and get all the election news as it happens by signing up for our election alerts here.

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