Liberal candidate quits election race amid China bounty outrage

W e’re over halfway through the election campaign, and you may have spent part of the past few days reading about the Liberals circulating fake campaign buttons—a depressing, if not uncommon, story of dirty campaigning. If you’re extra lucky, maybe you’ve read about the upcoming leaders’ debates. The debates promise to be little more than the usual—a series of press conferences clipped for social media masquerading as an exchange of different views. I think debates, as we hold them, are overrated at best and counterproductive at worst. They don’t really change minds, nor do...