elections Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:43:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg elections Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Toronto Mayoral Campaign Remains Interesting https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/10/13/1-toronto-mayoral-campaign-remains-interesting/ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:57:06 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=13834 (Column)
During a campaign, should politicians always have to tell the truth or should they be allowed to fudge the truth a little to get people to vote for them?

Journalist John Lorinc thinks they should have to tell the truth.

What do you think?

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]]> Two Canadian Political Parties In Hot Water Over Use Of Technology https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/02/29/two-canadian-political-parties-in-hot-water-over-use-of-technology/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/02/29/two-canadian-political-parties-in-hot-water-over-use-of-technology/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:00:16 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=5648 During elections, people often get a recorded message on their telephone that reminds them to vote and tells them where to go, to vote.

These messages, which use pre-recorded voices, are known as robo-calls.

Canada’s federal Conservative party is being accused of using robo-calls to mislead the public, during last year’s election.

The RCMP and Elections Canada (the group that makes the rules for elections), are looking into accusations that some robo-calls steered voters to the wrong polling station, or to polling stations that didn’t even exist, which would be illegal.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he doesn’t know anything about the illegal robo-calls.

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