CBC News - Liberal Leader Mark Carney faced jabs from his opponents at Wednesday's French-language leaders' debate with accusations he's out of touch with working people and won't offer enough change from his unpopular predecessor — charges he denied as he fought back saying he's the best candidate to handle the U.S. threat and a slumping economy.

The Globe and Mail - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is promising to shore up the struggling health care system by hiring 35,000 nurses by 2030 and tying new federal health transfer money to hiring and recruitment.

The Globe and Mail - Liberal Leader Mark Carney says he will release his party’s costed platform before advance polls close on Monday, just one week before election day. His comments strongly suggest the Liberal platform will not be released until after the leaders’ debates, which begin Wednesday evening in French, followed by an English debate Thursday.

CTV News - So far, Canada’s federal election conversation has focused largely on tense relations with the United States and U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with much of the world. But party leaders have also pitched policies on other topics, like the cost of living and the state of health care. And since older people usually can be relied on to vote, all three main parties have been reaching out to seniors.

The Globe and Mail - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney appeared on a popular Quebec talk show to court voters in the seat-rich province with two weeks left until the federal election.

The Globe and Mail - The Conservative Party is distancing itself from supporters who are questioning the veracity of federal election polls as leader Pierre Poilievre said Thursday he will accept the results on April 28 no matter the outcome.

CBC News - Liberal Leader Mark Carney laid out his party's public safety plan on Thursday, promising to crack down on gangs, protect children, reduce intimate partner violence and tackle the illegal flow of drugs and guns coming from the United States. 

Global News - Prime Minister Mark Carney is pausing his federal election campaign for a third time to tackle U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating global trade war.

National Post - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre returned to one of his signature issues Thursday, promising to incentivize city halls to lower municipal housing development charges if he becomes prime minister.

CBC News - Liberal Leader Mark Carney pitched Alberta as the heart of a new superpower in both clean and conventional energy Tuesday night as part of his first campaign stop in the province.

The Globe and Mail - With polls showing his party mired in third place in the federal election campaign, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday he has no regrets about how he handled his party’s governance deal with the Liberals.

CBC News - As Jagmeet Singh heads into his third week of campaigning, the NDP leader is dropping his assertive messaging that he is running to be prime minister. Singh is no longer explicitly repeating the line at news conferences.

CTV News - A task force monitoring possible threats to Canada’s federal election says it has observed an “information operation” by a Chinese news account that is targeting the upcoming April 28 vote.

The Globe and Mail - Former prime minister Stephen Harper said Canada’s problems weren’t created by the Trump administration as he made an impassioned pitch for Pierre Poilievre to become Canada’s next prime minister and downplayed Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s role during the 2008 global financial crisis.

CTV News - People from diverse backgrounds all across the country are campaigning for seats in the House of Commons — and some of them had high profiles well before they took the leap into federal politics.

CBC News - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has unveiled his party's plan to improve Canadians' access to primary health care with a strategy designed to retain and hire more doctors, nurses and other health-care workers.

CBC News - A Conservative government would prevent any new supervised consumption sites from opening, while making it harder for existing sites to operate, leader Pierre Poilievre announced Sunday, as he provided greater detail into his approach to a form of harm reduction he has repeatedly condemned.

CBC News - French-speaking Canadians got a first taste of how the five main federal party leaders defend their platforms beyond U.S. tariff threats in the span of two hours Thursday night on Radio-Canada's Cinq chefs, une élection program.

The Globe and Mail - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has distanced himself from comments made this week by Reform Party founder Preston Manning, who said an election victory for Mark Carney would fuel Western separatism and lead to a national-unity crisis.

CBC News - When Premier Wab Kinew met federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh at the legislature in Winnipeg on Tuesday night, the cameras captured a Manitoba-friendly greeting but not a public endorsement for Singh's national campaign.