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The Latest Millions of Canadians are at the polls today, choosing the nation's next leader at a time of diplomatic and economic turmoil — especially with the United States. Voting places close first in Newfoundland and Labrador, then across the Atlantic region. All of the major party leaders have cast their own ballots. CBC News is live with special coverage

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a member of the Liberal Party, announced in an X post on Sunday that he had “just asked the Governor General to dissolve parliament and call a federal election on April 28.” This move paves the way for an election to elect a new Parliament. At the time of Parliament’s dissolution, the Liberal Party had 152 seats while the Conservative Party of Canada held 120 seats. The remaining seats were held by minor political parties, with 33 constituencies represented by members of the Bloc Quebecois Party, 24 seats held by the New Democratic Party and...

Before we start the election preview in Canada it will be worth noting we are not going to have the complete picture of Canada's vote on election night Monday. Elections Canada estimating more than one million mail-in ballots that will be added to the totals beginning Tuesday. Massive COVID spending by Canada's federal government has driven its national debt over the one trillion dollar mark the inflation monster looming in the shadows already being felt in vastly higher housing prices. Foreign investment being blamed for the housing cost "bubble" with politicians pledging ot do something about it in this year's...

PARIS -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Canadian Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer now have something in common. They can both spend the rest of their lives complaining that they won the popular vote but still lost a national election. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kept his job but lost the popular vote in Monday's federal election. Conservatives won 34.4 percent of the popular vote, while Liberals won 33.1 percent -- a difference of more than 243,000 votes. Trudeau's Liberal Party lost its parliamentary majority, falling 13 seats short of the 170 required to ram through whatever...

Polls just closed in Atlantic Canada. Post results here.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals held onto power after a closely fought election on Monday but were reduced to a minority government that will need the support in Parliament of a smaller left-leaning party. The vote showed a deeply divided country with the defeated Conservatives winning the popular vote, while a resurgent separatist Bloc Quebecois made big strides in the mainly French-speaking province of Quebec.

Canada's Liberal Party, led by the son of the country's most famous political figure in the second half of the 20th century, ended the nine-year Conservative premiership of Stephen Harper with a landslide victory in Monday's federal election. According to a tally by the Canadian Press, the Liberals passed the 170-seat threshold needed to gain control of parliament at 12:15 a.m. ET Tuesday. In all, the Liberals won 184 seats. The Conservatives were a distant second with 99 seats, while the left-wing New Democratic Party placed third with 44 seats. The results mean that Justin Trudeau, 43, a former schoolteacher...

It is astonishing that the world learned nothing from the election of Obama. Justin Trudeau is to the left of Obama. What were Canadians thinking?

The Canadian dollar fell as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party was set to win the most seats in Monday’s national election, ending Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decade-long rule. Canada’s three major broadcasters -- CTV, CBC and Global News -- projected a Liberal win, while saying it was too early to predict whether the party would have enough seats for a majority government. The benchmark 10-year government bond gained 12 cents to $107.12 (Canadian), pushing the security’s yield down one basis point to 1.46 per cent. The currency weakened versus 15 of 16 major peers in the Asian trading session. Trudeau...

Canada's Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late campaign surge to a stunning election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa. Canada's major television networks projected the Liberals' victory and the party was on the cusp of a majority. While the final vote count was not yet complete, Trudeau's Liberals were on track to win 174 of Parliament's 338 seats, according to Elections Canada. Trudeau, 43, the photogenic son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, vaulted from third place to lead the...

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There’s no guarantee Trudeau will make it into power this election, but God help Canada if he does The freshly re-sloganed “Do the right thing” Google has a message for Canadians on Election Day in a cutsie graphic with an arrow telling them to “votez ici”. Most Canadian voters speak English, a statistic ignored by the politically correct Google who put “votez ici” first and the English words “vote” second. If you’re as powerful and as omni present as Google you can do anything you want under the self acclaimed status of always “doing the right thing”. Google’s message reminds...

<p>President Obama failed to take out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but now he’s going after Canada’s Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a big supporter of Israel and opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.</p> <p>It’s a story the U.S. media won’t cover. But Judi McLeod of the Canada Free Press has been documenting how Obama is planning the “fundamental transformation” of Canada by taking down Harper’s government and bringing to power a progressive majority assembled from Canada’s Liberal Party and New Democratic Party (NDP), an affiliate of the Socialist International.</p>

One wonders if U.S. President Barack Obama will campaign as vigorously to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper this fall, as he did, unsuccessfully, to defeat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in that country’s recent election. It’s no secret Obama despises Netanyahu, who heads Israel’s right-wing Likud party and favoured Mitt Romney over Obama in the 2012 presidential race. The U.S. president has also talked since the beginning of his administration about the need to “put some daylight” between the U.S. and Israel, so he would have more influence with Arab and Muslim countries in his pursuit of an Israel-Palestine peace...

Toronto Imam: Canada’s PM Harper “an enemy of Islam” This is tantamount to a call for his murder. “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land.” (Qur’an 5:33) “Toronto imam: Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper ‘is the enemy of Islam,'” by Jonathan Halevi, Alternative Angle, February 7, 2015 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur): Shaykh Said Rageah (الشيخ سعيد راجح)...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his campaign team are seizing on a botched English-language interview given by Stephane Dion, claiming it proves the Liberal leader isn't up to coping with the country's economic problems. The Liberals retorted Thursday night that Harper is taking a cheap shot at a man who has readily admitted his English isn't perfect - and that he has a hearing problem to boot. The controversy erupted over a televised interview with CTV in Halifax, in which Dion interrupted local anchor Steve Murphy to say he didn't understand his opening question and asked if they could start...

Liberal Leader Dion is accusing Prime Minister Stephen Harper of character assassination ... An increasingly frustrated Dion responded Saturday to new polls that show his party languishing with support levels in the low to mid-20 per cent range and the New Democrats closing in from behind. "Never has a government spent so much to destroy a person and his policies as Harper has towards me," Dion said during a campaign event in Stoney Creek, Ont., just outside Hamilton. He said the leaders' debates Wednesday and Thursday will allow him to reach out to voters and illustrate that neither he nor...

On a 1-10 scale of environmentalism, I am probably an 8. I'm a strong believer in climate change, believe it is the transcendental issue of our time and believe that the country that solves it will be an economic leader for the next century. In my professional life,... ... For 25 years, the environmental movement has been pushing - begging - for an election where the environment was a central ballot question. They would always claim that if a mainstream party put forward a serious plan, the votes would come. They pushed and prodded, cajoled and embarrassed but in the...

Canada's new Conservative government, elected on the short-term promise of repairing some of the more grievous deficiencies of its Liberal predecessor, will have to develop a long-term vision for the nation before it can hope to win a majority, says an observant academic writing last week in the National Post. The historical record shows, he says, that only leaders with an inspiring perspective of the future win majorities in Canada. The writer is Adam Chapnick, and he teaches history to the Canadian Forces College, the equivalent of an Annapolis and a West Point combined. In his prognosis, Chapnick sees what...

Polls give Conservatives strong lead Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:33 AM EST By Janet Guttsman TORONTO (Reuters) - Two new polls gave the Conservative Party a strong lead in the run-up to the January 23 federal election, and a projection based on several surveys said they could be within three seats of a majority. A Strategic Counsel poll for The Globe and Mail and CTV News said support for the Conservatives held steady at 39 percent, while support for the ruling Liberal Party slipped by one point to 27 percent. An EKOS poll for The Toronto Star and La Presse...