With the rush of opening day over - no I am not talking about Bono and the TIFF opening – remember this is the Ontario election note – the campaigns are settling into a rather leisurely three-event-a-day pace.

One challenge over the next ten days will be getting the attention of the Toronto media. TIFF mania will make it hard for any of the carefully crafted political photo ops landing on the front pages of the newspapers. Add the 9/11 anniversary coverage this weekend and the challenge is that much greater.

That said, the Toronto Sun this morning pushed Bono into a small box and kept the Liberal "immigrant tax credit" versus the Progressive Conservative "foreign worker" controversy going with the page one headline "INSULTING". On page five, York West Tory candidate, Karlene Nation, who is a black immigrant to Canada, told the Sun, "It's divisive, it's pandering of the worst order."

Nation has a bit of profile, she's currently on leave from CTV Toronto. Nonetheless, York West has not been friendly to the Tories. In 2007, they placed a very distant third in York West.

I spoke with Nation briefly yesterday and she has just put her campaign team together and was waiting for her election signs to arrive. It is going to take a Hudak tidal wave to get her into the Ontario Legislature.

The immigrant job credit/foreign worker issue also makes the front page of the Toronto Star. Queen's Park bureau chief, Robert Benzie, points out that both Liberals and Tories are nervous about the impact of the "hot button" issue. Yesterday the Liberals and Tories were front and centre attacking each other's positions.

McGuinty linked Hudak to the U.S. Tea Party faction and Hudak kept up his attack on the Liberal platform plan during a campaign stop in Ottawa.

I had a few minutes yesterday to check in with the Canadian Press reporters on the three campaigns. All the campaigns actually travel with two buses. One is for the leader and party operatives and a second for the media.

In the NDP crew, there are 10 reporters travelling with Leader Andrea Horwath. They got off the bus and flew up north with stops in Sudbury, Sturgeon Falls and Thunder Bay. It was a long day starting well before dawn and ending even earlier this morning with a scheduled landing at 1:30 a.m. this morning.

Reporters on the other campaigns had a bit of twitter fun with the NDP reporters who complained of a lack of coffee and nutrition supplies. Here's just one example – "Liberal bus pulls into bakery in Dundas. PC bus visited Big Apple in Colbourne. NDP is still pieless."

CP reporter Ronina Maurino didn't complain too much, although she did say some coffee would have been nice. Maurino says there was a strong turn out of local media in Sudbury and the NDP message seemed to go over well.

Today Horwath entered the immigrant job fray. She was up early in the riding of Oakville promising a tax credit for employers creating new jobs. She made the point that her tax credit plan would not be limited to new Canadians.

The NDP release quoted her as saying "Unlike the Liberal plan, our plan will apply to all new hires. Our solution will increase the number of jobs available to everyone – men, women, new Canadians, or young people – anyone who needs work."

The Tories spent a good part of the last couple of days on the 401. Hudak is doing one media availability a day. His other appearances are photo opportunities but there is no chance for reporters to ask questions. Hudak is also making time to do local media interviews. Hudak rode the media bus for a while and chatted up the reporters.

The twitter-verse had fun yesterday picking a song for the Hudak campaign. For a while there #hudaksnewcampaignsong was trending third in Toronto as everyone got into it. Even the Campaign Secretary for the Tories, Chad Rogers, took time to tweet his choice, "Modern Man" by Arcade Fire. The other side had fun too with one tweet suggesting "Cold As Ice" by Foreigner.

Today Hudak is in the GTA. He has three events. He'll answer reporters' questions at noon, then have a Toronto event before and ending with Tory supporters in Mississauga. It will be his first campaign stop in the west end of the GTA.

On the Liberal bus, the McGuinty team is also limiting reporters to once-a-day questions. Keith Leslie, the CP reporter on the bus, says the schedule is not onerous and the mood is confident and relaxed. McGuinty is also spending his day in the GTA.

His first stop is in Newmarket-Aurora. Tory MPP Frank Klees won this riding by 1,500 votes in 2007. But it is a rematch with Liberal candidate Christine Bisanz hoping an early visit by McGuinty will help her chances to defeat Klees this time around.

The Green Party leader, Mike Schreiner, called in some Green star power to help him for the day. Elizabeth May, the newly elected federal Green Party leader, is spending the day at various campaign with Schreiner starting this morning in Toronto and heading to Shelburne and Bolton. That might get his campaign a bit of media attention.

A better plan might have been to find an actor, any Green-leaning film star at TIFF, to walk the carpet with. Now that would have been a sure bet for coverage.