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OTTAWA 鈥� A look at key developments Friday on the federal campaign trail: Canadians voted at advance polls and two more party platforms were released in full, but religion, race and refugees continued to generate most of the election heat.

SASKATOON 鈥� Sheri Rudoski was beaming as she left a speech Stephen Harper delivered to parents and wailing babies in Saskatoon on Wednesday.

TORONTO 鈥� A long-time expat was finally able to vote in his old riding on Saturday, a day after Elections sa国际传媒 officials turned him away. A much relieved Will Gartshore, of Washington, D.C.

OTTAWA 鈥� Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says his government鈥檚 policy of prioritizing certain refugees, primarily Christians and other religious minorities, isn鈥檛 discriminatory.

IQALUIT, Nunavut 鈥� A Liberal government will spend an additional $40-million over four years on the Nutrition North program, Justin Trudeau announced in Iqaluit on Saturday. 鈥淟iving here is expensive and we all know that,鈥� Trudeau said.

OTTAWA 鈥� The opening day of advance polls brought out a big increase in the number of voters casting ballots ahead of the Oct. 19 election.

MONTREAL 鈥� sa国际传媒 should eschew pipeline projects in favour of refining bitumen at home, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said Saturday.

Long lineups at polling stations across sa国际传媒 鈥� and in Greater Victoria 鈥� frustrated a number of electors as advance voting began across the country on Friday, but Elections sa国际传媒 said volumes were within normal ranges.

SASKATOON 鈥� In an effort to appeal to new parents, Stephen Harper promised Wednesday to expand benefits for mothers and fathers on employment insurance so that they can stay off work for a longer period of time to take care of their infants.

LONDON, Ont. 鈥� Justin Trudeau says a Liberal government would start re-engaging sa国际传媒 with the world by signing a landmark global treaty to regulate the arms trade.