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Late to the party

The Conservative party platform for last year’s election contained two references to Old Age Security. One was a tangential reference, noting that seniors could withdraw funds from Tax-Free Savings Accounts without “any clawback of their OAS or GIS payments.” The other reference is a boast that the Harper government “eliminated Old Age Security payments to prisoners.”

In other news

A week into his summer tour, Michael Ignatieff is more or less on the record about the Cornwall border crossing, flooding in Manitoba, farm insurance, Louis Riel, firefighters, the census, the proposed Pickering airport, Afghanistan, Richard Fadden, foreign investment, affordable housing, contraband cigarettes, fighter jets, a Peterborough rail link, election timing, overseas travel, our politics and prison farms.

The tally

With 51 precincts reporting specific estimates—restricting the count to media-reported figures and, where available, police counts—it’s possible to account for approximately 21,000 anti-prorogation protestors at yesterday’s rallies.