CBC Radio's The House: Running through the 6ix for your votes
CBC Radio | Posted: September 18, 2021 8:00 AM | Last Updated: September 18, 2021
Here is what's on this week's episode of The House
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Caption: The Greater Toronto Area has dozens of ridings, many of which could flip in this election. (Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press)
Media Audio | CBC News: The House : Running through the 6ix for your votes
Caption: On this week’s show: The House zooms in on the GTA to explore issues that matter to voters in the hotly contested ridings of King–Vaughan and Davenport. Plus — a look at what Canadians should expect on election day and when results will be available; a debate over vaccine passports; reporter postcards from the campaign trail; and, in a podcast extra, Éric Grenier’s analysis of the last public polls before election day.
Millions of Canadians will cast their ballots in person on Monday, in the culmination of this country's 44th federal election. But is Canada's electoral system ready for a deluge of democratic action?
Elections Canada spokesperson Diane Benson joins The House to run through whether the agency is prepared to pull off a uniquely challenging pandemic election day and when Canadians may know the full results.
Media Audio | CBC News: The House : Executing the election day
Caption: Elections Canada spokesperson Diane Benson joins The House to run through whether the agency is prepared to pull off a uniquely challenging pandemic election day and when Canadians may know the full results.
The House takes a deep dive into the 905 region around Toronto, that holy grail of political campaigns with its numerous, sometimes fickle ridings. King–Vaughan is all that and more, being the site of one of the angry protests against Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau early in the campaign.
In this special report, Liberal candidate Deb Schulte and Conservative candidate Anna Roberts explain why the ongoing debate over vaccine mandates is playing out so strongly in suburban-rural King–Vaughan.
Media Audio | CBC News: The House : Striving for the 905
Caption: In this special report, Liberal candidate Deb Schulte and Conservative candidate Anna Roberts explain why the ongoing debate over vaccine mandates is playing out so strongly in suburban-rural King–Vaughan.
The debate over mandatory vaccination and vaccine passports has been an animating factor in this election, as the major parties trade barbs and the issue energizes the People's Party of Canada.
At the beginning of May, The Housefeatured a debate between Prof. Françoise Baylis and Dr. Anna Banerji. The two rejoin the program to talk about what they got right and wrong about the prospect of vaccine passports — and what should be done now.
Media Audio | CBC News: The House : The vaccine mandate debate
Caption: Professor Françoise Baylis and Dr. Anna Banerji discuss the prospect of vaccine passports now set to be implemented in much of the country.
In the second part of an in-depth look into GTA ridings, The House hears from voters, candidates Julie Dzerowicz and Alejandra Bravo, and pollster Frank Graves about Davenport: a dense, diverse, downtown Toronto riding.
It was a Liberal stronghold before the NDP broke through there in 2011, only for the Grits to regain the seat four years later. Can the NDP break back into the 416?
Media Audio | CBC News: The House : Can the NDP regain Davenport?
Caption: Candidates Julie Dzerowicz and Alejandra Bravo, pollster Frank Graves, and voters discuss whether the NDP can make a breakthrough in the downtown Toronto riding of Davenport.
It's almost a wrap on the campaign, but CBC reporters are still on the buses, trains and planes as the parties frantically work to squeeze out every last vote. Raffy Boudjikanian, Karina Roman, Hannah Thibedeau and Tom Parry highlight some of the moments you may have missed in the last week before voting day.
Media Audio | CBC News: The House : Postcards from the campaign trail
Caption: Reporters Raffy Boudjikanian, Karina Roman, Hannah Thibedeau and Tom Parry highlight some of the moments you may have missed in the last week before voting day.
With just two full days of campaigning left, there's only one overarching goal remaining: get out the vote.
A panel of current party strategists — the Liberals' Navdeep Bains, Dan Robertson of the Conservatives and the NDP's Jennifer Howard — convene on this last weekend of the campaign to discuss how the war rooms are responding to last-minute messaging issues and how they've planned the pell-mell sprint to the finish.
Media Audio | CBC News: The House : Planning the final push
Caption: A panel of current party strategists — the Liberals’ Navdeep Bains, Dan Robertson of the Conservatives and the NDP’s Jennifer Howard — convene on this last weekend of the campaign to discuss the sprint to the finish.
Author and publisher of thewrit.ca Éric Grenier joins an extended podcast version of The House for the final time this campaign to break down the last polls and preview election night.
Media Audio | CBC News: The House : What do the final polls portend?
Caption: Author and publisher of thewrit.ca Éric Grenier joins an extended podcast version of The House for the final time this campaign to break down the last polls and preview election night.