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COVID-19 pandemic dampens but doesn't extinguish election-watching parties
OTTAWA - Monday's federal election put a damper on a traditional form of watching the returns with the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the number of viewing parties across the country. Large indoor gatherings were for the most part either less appealing, or off-limits, due to the virus and the higher-than-average number of ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Early election results have Liberals leading, Bloc slipping in Quebec
MONTREAL - Early election results have the Liberals leading in Quebec after a race dominated by frequent appeals to Quebec nationalism. Shortly after 11 p.m., about 90 minutes after polls closed, the Liberals were elected or leading in 36 ridings in the province, while the Bloc was elected or leading in 29. The Liberal...
Sep 21, 2021
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Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada looking for electoral breakthrough
The People's Party of Canada, led by the outspoken Maxime Bernier, is looking to turn growing support into ballot-box success this evening. Opinion polls have consistently shown party support hovering at five per cent or higher during the federal campaign, even though Bernier was excluded from national leaders' debates...
Sep 21, 2021
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Ballot count underway across the country as federal election polls close in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Polls have closed in British Columbia and Yukon, marking the end of voting across the country. Yukon's chief medical health officer Dr. Brendan Hanley is on leave to run for the Liberals to replace Larry Bagnell, who spent two decades as the territory's Liberal MP. While many ridings in B.C. have remained c...
Sep 21, 2021
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Conservatives make inroads in Atlantic Canada, but Liberal fortress remains strong
HALIFAX - Voters in Atlantic Canada loosened Justin Trudeau's grip on the region Monday by delivering a handful of new seats to the Conservatives, signalling a mild rebuke of the Liberal leader's decision to call an election during the pandemic's fourth wave. In the six years since Trudeau won a majority government in ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Trudeau's political future hangs in the balance as Atlantic results show tenuous lead
MONTREAL - Thirty-six days after his fateful decision to trigger a federal election, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau saw some early warning signs Monday night as results began to roll in for Canada's 44th election. He lost a cabinet minister in Bernadette Jordan after the Liberal-held South Shore-St. Margarets riding in ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Liberal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan loses re-election bid
OTTAWA - Liberal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan has been defeated in the South Shore-St. Margarets riding in Nova Scotia by Conservative candidate Rick Perkins. Jordan was first elected as a member of Parliament in 2015 and has served as a minister in Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's government since 20...
Sep 21, 2021
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The latest on results and developments in Canada's 44th general election
OTTAWA - The latest on developments and results in the federal election. All times are eastern. 9:30 p.m. Polls are now closed in Ontario - a key battleground that could determine the outcome of the federal election. In 2019, the Liberals swept Toronto and many of the so-called 905 ridings around the city. There are so...
Sep 21, 2021
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Erin O'Toole campaigned on a renewed, moderate Conservative party - but will it work?
OSHAWA, Ont. - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is waiting to see if his more moderate approach to issues like climate change, spending and abortion pays off with a victory over his Liberal foe. The 48-year-old is watching the election results roll in at a hockey arena in Oshawa, Ont., after casting a ballot earlier Mo...
Sep 21, 2021
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Jagmeet Singh says he's excited and nervous as NDP vie for more seats in election
VANCOUVER - The NDP are looking for any growth in their caucus as election night started off with the loss of a key seat in Atlantic Canada. St. John's East, the New Democrats only seat in the region, fell to Liberal Joanne Thompson. It was formerly held by Jack Harris, who retired from politics with the onset of the ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Election officials expect most postal votes to be counted by Wednesday
OTTAWA - The final results of the federal election may not be known until Wednesday, election officials have warned, because of almost one million mail-in ballots that will not be opened until Tuesday. A clutch of close-run ridings, where mail-in ballots could prove crucial to the result, may have to wait days for a wi...
Sep 21, 2021
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Canadians heading to the polls to choose next federal government
OTTAWA - Canada's first-ever pandemic election culminates today as Canadians from coast-to-coast go to the polls to choose the 338 members of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons. Elections Canada says almost 6.8 million people voted early, most of them at advanced polls over a week ago, and the rest through speci...
Sep 20, 2021
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