The polls are open and the race is on, especially in Elmwood-Transcona. Conservative incumbent Lawrence Toet is looking to hold on to his seat for a second term but NDP candidate Daniel Blaikie is hoping to bring the riding back to orange.

A Conservative MP is being ridiculed for a pamphlet that suggests anyone who doesn't agree with the Harper government's proposed anti-terrorist legislation must sympathize with terrorists.

Politicians, elected from across the country, must leave their homes – and in many cases, their real spouses – and move to Ottawa, where they live for most of the week before heading home to the riding on the weekend.