Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives at the Office of the Prime Minister in Ottawa on April 29, 2025.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
4/29/25 15:30
New U.S. ambassador to Canada congratulates PM Carney
– Steven Chase, Adrian Morrow
The new U.S. ambassador to Canada congratulated Prime Minister Mark Carney on his Liberal election victory and said Washington and Ottawa now have “a big job ahead of us” as both countries prepare for negotiations on a new economic and security relationship.
It was Pete Hoekstra’s first official statement as ambassador, just hours after he presented his letters of credence to Governor-General Mary Simon and formally began his duties as envoy in Canada.
Late last month, Mr. Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to begin comprehensive talks on a new economic and security relationship following the election.
“We’ve got a big job ahead of us – reviewing and strengthening our strong trading partnership, securing our borders, confronting the deadly threat of fentanyl to our citizens, building our national security cooperation, and fulfilling our alliance commitments,” Mr. Hoekstra said in the statement.
“We must also invest in defending North America economically and militarily for the next century.”
4/29/25 14:59
Opinion: For the NDP, a gut-wrenching loss with a period of soul searching to follow
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addresses supporters at his campaign headquarters in Burnaby, B.C.Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
In the end, the New Democratic Party was no match for the threat U.S. President Donald Trump posed to Canada.
And to a lesser extent, it didn’t have an answer for a Conservative Party led by an extremely effective communicator in Pierre Poilievre, who spoke to the issues that animated a lot of New Democrats, like bringing down the cost of groceries and heating bills, making housing more affordable and dealing with rampant crime.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his party didn’t have the firepower or the ideas or strategic battle plan to take on those forces.
Election night in Canada was just bad for the NDP all around. Mr. Singh lost his own seat and announced he will be stepping down as leader. Any attempts to hang on would have been a farce. It is time for a new leader and, frankly, it might have been time before the last election. The party only won seven seats Monday, although the results remain unofficial. It needed 12 to maintain official party status, with the money and resources that come with it. That hurts.
I will say this about Mr. Singh: He is a fundamentally decent human being who embodies the kindness and humility of the great Jack Layton. He showed remarkable class in defeat.
Mark Carney arrives at the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council on Monday.Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images
The Liberals won the federal election with an unambitious, play-it-safe platform of personal finance measures that half-heartedly ticked boxes such as tax cuts and help for seniors.
Expect things to be a lot more interesting in the months and years ahead as the new government makes decisions affecting core financial issues such as the cost of an aging population, financial security for seniors and housing affordability. Broader economic decisions will affect interest rates and the stock market.
Blanchet criticized by Parti Québécois as he promises to work with other leaders
– The Canadian Press
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is calling for a “partisan truce” with other federal party leaders after Monday’s federal election, even as he faces criticism from his party’s provincial cousins for putting sovereignty aside.
Mr. Blanchet told reporters in Montreal that voters want stability in Parliament in order to address the ongoing trade war with the United States.
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon criticized the Bloc Tuesday for treating Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney as a partner and for agreeing to suspend the push for Quebec independence while U.S. trade negotiations take place.
Mr. Blanchet said he remains committed to sovereignty but is convinced the population wants politicians to fix the trade situation first. He added that collaboration can only work if Mr. Carney shows respect for Quebec’s position on issues such as secularism, immigration and protection of the French language.
04/29/25 14:46
B.C. Premier David Eby not interested in taking on federal NDP leadership
– The Canadian Press
B.C. Premier David Eby says he’s not interested in taking the helm of the federal NDP, as the party seeks a new leader following Monday’s election.
Mr. Eby would not say who he thinks should take on the role but acknowledged Tuesday it’s going to be a “challenging job” after a “tough night” for the party.
Jagmeet Singh said Monday night he will step down once an interim party leader can be named. Mr. Singh made the announcement after he lost his seat, and results indicated the NDP would lose official party status in the House of Commons.
While final votes are still being counted, the NDP is expected to end up with seven MPs, down from 24 when Parliament was dissolved.
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles said that while this was a “very tough election” with a “difficult result,” the party is sending some strong MPs back to Parliament.
04/29/25 14:30
Voter turnout reaches over 19.2 million, surpassing 2021 election
People wait in line to register to vote at a polling station in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
Elections Canada says more than 67 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot in Monday’s federal election.
More than 19.2 million Canadians voted, according to preliminary figures from the non-partisan agency.
Turnout was higher than in the last federal election in 2021, when 62.6 per cent of eligible voters headed to the polls.
While this election was widely expected to see increased turnout, it did not surpass the record set in March, 1958, when 79.4 per cent of eligible electors voted. In that election, incumbent Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker secured a majority against Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson, who went on to become PM in 1963.
However, with votes still being counted, turnout figures still have some room to climb.
04/29/25 14:10
Potential minority Parliament could prompt higher deficits amid party compromises, economists say
– The Canadian Press
As the Liberal Party could form a minority government following the election, economists say the focus now shifts toward Prime Minister Mark Carney’s spending promises amid the trade war with the United States.
CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld said in a post-election note that budget deficits “look likely to head higher in the near term,” adding that is typical when Canada experiences an economic shock and governments lean on fiscal stimulus.
“Deficits are likely to somewhat exceed what the Liberals suggested during the campaign, while still tracking miles below U.S. federal deficits as a share of GDP,” he said.
Shenfeld said higher deficits could be in the cards especially with a minority Parliament looking likely, as votes continue being tallied.
04/29/25 13:55
A preliminary look at voter turnout
– Globe staff
Elections Canada’s turnout figures are preliminary, but overall, as experts expected, they do not break records in the way that advance polls did over the Easter weekend. Turnout is higher than recent campaigns, but it would have had to reach 75.3 per cent to match the consequential elections of 1984 and 1988, which, like this one, centred on Canada-U.S. relations and trade.
04/29/25 13:05
Doug Ford says he’s focused on unity after MP accuses the premier of sabotage
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Thursday, April 17, 2025.Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said today that he wants to focus on unity, refusing to shoot back at a rant from a Conservative MP calling the premier a “problem,” an opportunist and a Liberal “hype man.”
Jamil Jivani, who won Bowmanville-Oshawa North, said in an interview with CBC on election night that Ford inserted himself in the federal campaign and Conservatives should not be taking advice from him.
Ford would not take Jivani’s bait in the wake of Poilievre’s loss, saying only that all Canadians have to stand together against the real threat, which is the economic harm that will be caused by Trump’s tariffs.
“I’m focusing on unity right across this country,” Ford said when asked about Jivani’s comments.
“We have to bring this country together like we’ve never had before. Each other are not the enemies. There’s one person that’s causing a real problem, not just here (but) around the world, and that’s President Trump.”
04/29/25 13:03
Liberals sweep most of Nova Scotia
– Lindsay Jones
The Liberal Party swept most of Nova Scotia, with the Conservatives losing two seats, leaving the province with just one Tory MP, in Acadie-Annapolis, where Chris d’Entremont hung onto his seat by a slim margin – 470 votes with one poll left to report as of early Tuesday afternoon.
Late Monday night, the riding of Cumberland-Colchester, held by Conservative Stephen Ellis, switched from blue to red as final polls were tabulated, propelling Liberal Alana Hirtle to the win.
04/29/25 12:31
Liberals maintain their grip in Atlantic Canada
– The Canadian Press
With 98 per cent of the polls in Atlantic Canada reporting, the Liberals were elected or leading in 25 of 32 ridings, and the Conservatives were at seven. The New Democrats were not in contention, capturing less than five per cent of the popular vote. If those results hold when the final ballots are counted, the Liberals will end up with one more seat in the region than they won in the 2021 election.
The party has dominated the region for almost 10 years, though its grip has slightly loosened since Justin Trudeau was first elected to govern in 2015, when the Liberals won all 32 seats.
04/29/25 11:51
This election was a mixed bag for Liberals who came up in the Trudeau era
– Joe Friesen, Patrick White
Although Donald Trump was always the backdrop of Canada’s federal election, some voters saw Monday as a referendum on the more than nine years the Liberals held office under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The results were a mixed bag for Liberals tied to Mr. Trudeau’s government, with some retaining their ridings while others were ousted.
Sean Fraser responds to a question from the media after announcing he is leaving federal politics, Monday, Dec 16, 2024 in Ottawa. He came back and won his seat.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Former immigration and housing minister Sean Fraser won his Central Nova seat despite trailing in early returns. Mr. Fraser had announced he wouldn’t run in this election but changed his mind a few months later. He topped Conservative Brycen Jenkins by a margin of about 4,000 votes – 52 per cent to 43 per cent.
Anita Anand held five different portfolios under Justin Trudeau.ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP/Getty Images
Anita Anand won Oakville East, surviving a spirited challenge from former police officer Ron Chhinzer. She held five different portfolios under Mr. Trudeau, becoming one of the faces of Ottawa’s pandemic response as minister of public services and procurement. Prime Minister Mark Carney made her Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry in March.
Bryan May lost to Conservative Connie Cody.Supplied
Bryan May, who served briefly as parliamentary secretary to Mr. Trudeau, lost his Cambridge riding to Conservative Connie Cody. Mr. May also served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of national defence in 2021 before taking on the same post with the small business ministry.
Kamal Khera lost her seat to Conservative Amarjeet Gill.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Short-lived Minister of Health Kamal Khera fell to Conservative Amarjeet Gill in Brampton West. A registered nurse, Ms. Khera was sworn in as minister of health shortly after Mr. Carney became Prime Minister in March. Previously, she had been minister of diversity, inclusion and persons with disabilities, which she took on after serving as minister of seniors.
Ya’ara Saks was also unseated by her Conservative counterpart.Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press
Ya’ara Saks, a former minister of mental health and addictions, was unseated by Conservative Roman Baber in York Centre. A former MPP, Mr. Baber was kicked out of the provincial PC caucus for an open letter criticizing his government’s pandemic response that stated: “Lockdowns are deadlier than Covid.”
Sohi won about 39 per cent of the vote to his opponent’s 53 per cent.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi lost the Edmonton-Southeast riding to Conservative Jagsharan Singh Mahal. Mr. Sohi, a former bus driver, Liberal MP and cabinet minister who was elected mayor in 2021, took a leave of absence from his city job to run in this election. He won about 39 per cent of the vote to his opponent’s 53 per cent.
04/29/25 11:09
Danielle Smith says UCP will hold ‘special’ caucus meeting to discuss Alberta’s future after Liberal win
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a national conference in Ottawa on April 10, 2025.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her United Conservative Party will hold a “special caucus meeting” Friday to discuss the province’s future now that the federal government remains under Liberal control.
In a statement Tuesday, Ms. Smith congratulated Liberal Leader Mark Carney for his party’s victory in the federal election. She also thanked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for fighting for causes that align with her worldview.
A small but loud faction of conservative Albertans is pressing for the province to leave Confederation now that the Liberals have secured their fourth consecutive term. Ms. Smith, who said she would not lead the charge but is not deterring would-be separatists, on Tuesday said her fellow citizens will “no longer tolerate having our industries threatened” and resources landlocked by Ottawa.
“In the weeks and months ahead, Albertans will have an opportunity to discuss our province’s future, assess various options for strengthening and protecting our province against future hostile acts from Ottawa, and to ultimately choose a path forward,” she said in her statement.
“As Premier, I will facilitate and lead this discussion and process with the sincere hope of securing a prosperous future for our province within a united Canada that respects our province’s constitutional rights, facilitates rather than blocks the development and export of our abundant resources, and treats us as a valued and respected partner within Confederation.”
She added that she will have more to say after Friday’s special caucus meeting.
04/29/25 10:46
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04/29/25 10:37
What the Liberals’ election win means for your personal finances
– Meera Raman and Mariya Postelnyak
The Liberal Party has won the federal election, and Prime Minister Mark Carney will have his work cut out for him as Canadians face the financial impacts of the trade war and ongoing cost of living concerns.
Here’s a breakdown of the major personal finance promises – from retirement to taxes – the party made during the election campaign, and how they could impact your pocketbook.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Thursday, April 17, 2025.Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he looks forward to working with Mark Carney’s Liberals to meet a “crucial” moment for the province and for Canada.
Ford is calling on Carney to make good on promises to help tear down internal trade barriers and speed approvals for resource development projects, including in the mineral-rich Ring of Fire region in northern Ontario.
In a statement this morning, the premier also urged the new Liberal government to get infrastructure such as pipelines, highways and rail lines built to help Canadian goods and reduce reliance on the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump had a looming presence in the federal campaign and in the provincial election that re-elected Ford two months ago.
Both Carney and Ford were pulled away from their campaigns to respond to American tariff announcements.
04/29/25 09:46
Financial analysts react to the federal election results
– Reuters
Market reaction has been muted. The Canadian dollar was barely changed at 1.3830 U.S. dollar, or 72.31 U.S. cents and Canada’s 10-year government bond yield was up less than a basis point at 3.174 per cent.
Canada’s main stock index also edged higher at the open on Tuesday. At 9:31 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 0.08 per cent at 24,819.43 points.
Here are some comments from financial analysts:
ANTHONY VISANO, HEAD OF INVESTMENT RESEARCH, KINGWEST AND CO
“The uncertainty of trade still rules the day. Until we get certainty around cabinet appointments and negotiations around NAFTA 2.0, I think we’re still kind of in this uncertain period. But broadly speaking, from our perspective, we’re quite optimistic and excited about Canada’s prospects.
“There’s a Canada-first mindset, some optimism around trade, inter-country trade, the willingness to get pipelines done.”
BRIAN MADDEN, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, FIRST AVENUE INVESTMENT COUNSEL
“Carney is going to have to choose his cabinet ministers carefully. He’s going to have some people with experience running these portfolios, but he’s also going to have to have enough fresh faces to send a message to the public and to the opposition party that his agenda is different than that of his predecessor.”
STEPHEN BROWN, DEPUTY CHIEF NORTH AMERICA ECONOMIST, CAPITAL ECONOMICS
“Although the Liberals have just missed out on a majority, Prime Minister Mark Carney should still be able to implement his fiscal plans with support from the NDP or Bloc Québécois. If anything, the need to grant concessions to those parties means fiscal policy could end up even looser than the Liberals have signaled.
“That presents a modest risk to our view that the Bank of Canada will cut another three times this year, which would probably prevent the loonie and bond yields from falling by as much as we anticipate.”
SHAUN OSBORNE AND ERIC THEORET, STRATEGISTS AT SCOTIABANK
“The CAD slipped marginally in overnight trade but is trading little changed on the day now and USD-CAD risk reversal pricing shows little change in skew through the 1– ,3– and 6-month tenors, suggesting markets are not overly concerned about another minority government at this point – despite the challenges ahead for Canada.”
04/29/25 09:22
The province where a majority of flipped ridings took place
– Chen Wang
Of the 54 seats that changed hands in last night’s federal election, most of those flips took place in Ontario. The province saw 22 ridings dump their incumbent MPs, while there were 11 flips in Quebec, 10 in British Columbia, eight in the Prairies and three in Atlantic Canada.
Although the Liberals lost 18 seats to the Conservatives – 14 of them in Ontario – they made up for those losses elsewhere. In Quebec, the Liberals took nine seats from the Bloc Québécois and another nine from the Conservatives, including three in Ontario and two in Nova Scotia.
The NDP lost 15 seats overall – nine to the Conservatives and six to the Liberals, with eight of those losses in British Columbia.
Some of the flipped seats are in ridings with redrawn boundaries. To determine whether a riding flipped, The Globe and Mail looked at whether a sitting MP prior to redistribution was seeking re-election. In cases where there was no incumbent, the incumbent was considered to be the party that controlled the old riding comprising the largest percentage of the population in the new riding.
04/29/25 09:02
A snapshot of the ridings that flipped
– Greg Mercer and Chen Wang
Fifty-four ridings changed hands in Monday’s federal election. In Atlantic Canada and Quebec, the Liberals won key electoral districts, while the Conservatives knocked out incumbents in the Greater Toronto Area and Winnipeg. Here is a snapshot of five of them.
South Shore–St. Margarets (Nova Scotia)
Jessica Fancy-Landry was acclaimed the Liberal candidate in this Nova Scotia riding in January when the party was still riding low in the polls – and rode the swing in voter opinion all the way to victory over Conservative incumbent MP Rick Perkins. Mr. Perkins, who was an outspoken critic of the Liberals’ handling of the Indigenous lobster fishing dispute, had unseated fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan in 2021 to win here.
Rivière-des-Mille-Îles (Quebec)
Liberal gains in Quebec were a big story on election night, and Linda Lapointe’s victory in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles over incumbent Luc Desilets of the Bloc Québécois was part of that trend. Across the province, the Trump effect was powerful – with Bloc candidates saying voters told them they were worried about U.S. tariffs and wanted a strong Liberal delegation to stand up for Canada.
Aurora–Oak Ridges–Richmond Hill (Ontario)
Conservative candidate Costas Menegakis took this Ontario riding from the Liberals, defeating incumbent Leah Taylor Roy. Despite a late campaign stop by Liberal Leader Mark Carney, the seat was among the gains made in suburban Ontario by the Tories, who focused on “bread and butter” issues such as affordability and concerns about crime, Mr. Menegakis said.
Elmwood–Transcona (Manitoba)
Conservative Colin Reynolds won this Winnipeg-area riding, defeating incumbent MP Leila Dance as the New Democrats were sidelined in what became a two-horse race. Traditionally an NDP stronghold, Ms. Dance narrowly beat Mr. Reynolds here in a September, 2024, by-election to replace NDP MP Daniel Blaikie.
Victoria (British Columbia)
The Liberals broke the NDP’s 20-year grip on Victoria Monday night when Will Greaves defeated incumbent MP Laurel Collins. Ms. Collins told her supporters she had heard at the door that people wanted to vote NDP but felt afraid with Donald Trump in the White House. Similar stories played out across B.C., including in Burnaby Central, where NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced plans to resign after being unseated in his own riding.
04/29/25 08:50
Liberals face disappointment in Ontario as Conservatives surge in GTA ridings
Voters line up to cast their ballot at a polling station in Toronto.Wa Lone/Reuters
TheLiberal Party faced its most disappointing results in Monday night’s election in Ontario, losing ground to the Conservatives, particularly in the suburban 905 region that surrounds Toronto.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made breakthroughs in the Toronto-area ridings of the 905 area, named for its telephone area code, as well as strong showings elsewhere.
While the map still showed a large patch of Liberal red in the party’s strongholds in the Greater Toronto Area, several races in the region there were extremely tight. In some ridings, evaporating NDP support did not translate into expected Liberal wins.
In the 905, Conservative Costas Menegaskis defeated Liberal Leah Taylor Roy in Aurora–Oak Ridges–Richmond Hill, a riding the Liberals won by a razor-thin margin in 2021. The Conservatives also flipped Liberal ridings in Newmarket-Aurora and Brampton West, and Markham–Unionville, where Liberal Paul Chiang quit after a scandal over comments he made about handing a rival over to Chinese authorities.
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet speaks to supporters on election night.Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press
The Liberals made significant gains in Quebec at the expense of the Bloc Québécois on Monday.
Mr. Carney’s party was leading or elected in 43 Quebec ridings late Monday night, compared with 23 for the Bloc, 11 for the Conservatives, and one for the NDP.
The battleground suburbs and rural areas around Montreal – the so-called 450, after the local area code – seem to have been decisive for the Liberals.
The party was hoping to improve on its 35 seats won in 2021 with a red wave in Quebec. The Bloc aimed to save the furniture, and most of the party’s 32 seats from the last election, after its support plummeted.
The sovereigntist party managed better than initially feared. In the newly redrawn riding of Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj, the lawyer Alexis Deschênes defeated former Liberal cabinet minister Diane Lebouthillier, a significant pickup.
Voters have their names checked in a polling station during Canada’s federal election in Calgary, Alberta, on April 28, 2025.Ahmed Zakot/Reuters
Alberta is set to return a platoon of Conservative candidates to Ottawa in Monday’s federal election, although a handful of city ridings hosted tight races, underlining the province’s rural-urban divide.
The Conservative Party won all but three of Alberta’s 37 ridings, according to the preliminary results Monday evening. The Liberals held Edmonton Centre and picked up Calgary Centre, while the New Democratic Party won Edmonton Strathcona, which it has controlled since 2008.
Elections Canada estimated voter turnout in Alberta exceeded 63 per cent. It counted 2,064,167 votes with 96 per cent of polls reporting. As of April 25, Elections Canada estimated 3,234,505 people were registered to vote in the province.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre walks with new MP for Durham Jamil Jivani as he takes his place in the House of Commons before Question Period, April 8, 2024 in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Simmering tensions between federal Conservatives and Ontario Premier Doug Ford burst into full view on election night as Jamil Jivani, the Conservative MP for Bowmanville—Oshawa North, used his victory speech to accuse Mr. Ford of undermining the federal party’s campaign.
During a subsequent on-air interview with CBC, Mr. Jivani called Mr. Ford “a problem for Ontario and for Canada.”
“He’s taken the provincial conservative party and turned into something hollow,” he continued. “Something that is unprincipled and doesn’t solve problems. He’s gladhanding with Chrystia Freeland, having coffees and lattes with Mark Carney and I’m sitting here saying we need to be fighting for change and something new and something different, not being a hype man to the Liberal party.
During the federal campaign, Mr. Ford declined to help Pierre Poilievre and defended and an advisor who accused Mr. Poilievre’s team of committing “campaign malpractice” by blowing an almost 25-point lead heading into the election.
Mr. Jivani once worked for Mr. Ford as a special advisor and province’s first Advocate for Community Opportunities, but resigned in 2022 after criticizing the government’s pandemic policies.
“I’m speaking from experience,” he told CBC. “I tried to fix problems in this province and [Ford] kept getting in the way and all his goons around him all the time.”
04/29/25 07:49
Elections Canada pauses vote counting with Liberal majority still in question
– The Canadian Press
Elections Canada decided early Tuesday morning to pause the marathon counting of special ballots with a handful of ridings still too close to call.
A majority government would allow the Liberals to pass legislation without the support of other parties. If the final result remains a minority, the Liberals would need help to stay in power.
Special ballots are cast by mail or at Elections Canada offices by voters who are away from their ridings during the election.
The counting was to resume at 9:30 a.m. ET
04/29/25 07:36
Pierre Poilievre projected to lose his Ottawa-area riding, with two polls still to be reported
Pierre Poilievre speaks to supporters alongside his wife Anaida Poilievre after the election was declared for the Liberal Party.Amber Bracken/Reuters
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his Ottawa-area seat to Liberal challenger Bruce Fanjoy, making him the second federal leader to be rejected by voters in Monday’s election.
With 264 out of 266 polls reporting early Tuesday, Mr. Fanjoy won 50.6 per cent of the vote to Mr. Poilievre’s 46.1 per cent.
Elections Canada paused the counting of special ballots early Tuesday with a handful of ridings still too close to call, including Mr. Poilievre’s. Counting was to resume at 9:30 a.m.
Mr. Poilievre had previously won seven times in the riding of Carleton or predecessor ridings in the region. The 45-year-old won with 52 per cent of the vote in 2021 and 46 per cent in 2019.
Ballot counting in the riding was slowed by a protest against the first-past-the-post electoral system that saw 85 activists run in the riding, making the ballot 91 names long.
The NDP’s Jagmeet Singh conceded his riding in British Columbia and resigned as leader of the party.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Mark Carney and said Ukraine deeply valued stressed Canada’s support “from military, financial, and humanitarian assistance to imposing sanctions against Russia.”
“We are confident that our partnership will only grow stronger in our shared pursuit of peace, justice, and security,” Mr. Zelensky added.
04/29/25 07:26
French President Emmanuel Macron congratulates Carney
– Paul Waldie
French President Emmanuel Macron referenced Mark Carney’s “elbows up” rallying cry in a congratulatory post on social media. “France is glad to further strengthen the friendship which unites our two countries,” Mr. Macron said in a post on X. “I’m looking forward to working with you — “elbow to elbow!”
04/29/25 07:21
World leaders congratulate Carney
– Paul Waldie
World leaders have congratulated Mark Carney on leading the Liberals to victory on Monday with some signaling that it marks the start of a stronger relationship with Canada in the face of growing unease with U.S. President Donald Trump.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said “the bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.”
“I look forward to working closely together, both bilaterally and within the G7. We’ll defend our shared democratic values, promote multilateralism, and champion free and fair trade,” she added on Tuesday.
In his congratulatory message, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer noted the connections between Mr. Carney and the UK, stemming from the Canadian Prime Minister’s time as Governor of the Bank of England.
“With your leadership, and personal ties to the UK, I know the relationship between our two countries will continue to grow,” Mr. Starmer said in a statement. “We will work together to deepen our economic relationship to deliver security for hardworking people in the UK and Canada – which we were both elected to do.”
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh addresses supporters at his campaign headquarters on election night, in Burnaby, B.C., Monday, April 28, 2025.Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
Jagmeet Singh announced Monday night he will step down as NDP leader after a disappointing result that saw a major decline in the party’s seat count.
He said he will resign as soon as an interim leader can be named after he failed to win his seat in the Burnaby Central riding.
Mr. Singh choked up several times as he thanked his family, his caucus and his staff.
“Almost eight years ago I was elected the leader of this incredible party, this incredible movement. I worked really hard to be worthy of this trust, to live up to the legacy of our movement,” he said. “I’ll be stepping down as leader.”
The New Democratic Party was poised to return to Ottawa with a much smaller team. Earlier in the night, NDP national director Anne McGrath said she was still hopeful the party would outperform polling predictions.
As of press time, the NDP were leading in eight ridings, a disappointing result after winning 25 seats in the 2021 election. The party needs 12 seats to maintain official party status.
The party had garnered just over 5 per cent of the popular vote nationally, a sharp decline from the 17.8-per-cent share of the national vote that the party received in 2021.
“Obviously I’m disappointed that we could not win more seats, but I’m not disappointed in our movement. I’m hopeful for our party,” Mr. Singh told supporters.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to supporters on election night in Ottawa, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris YoungChris Young/The Canadian Press
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered his party’s best showing in over a decade but failed to form government in an election that saw his party pick up new seats across the country –even as, early into Tuesday morning, his own seat remained a question mark.
With 250 of 266 polls reporting as of 2:45 Tuesday morning, the Liberals were tracking towards capturing the riding of Carleton, which Mr. Poilievre has held since 2004.
It was a result that came even as he expanded his party’s base of support in Monday’s vote into the Greater Toronto Area, Lower Mainland and parts of the Atlantic, holding the Liberals to a minority government.
He did not acknowledge his personal political prospects early Tuesday morning as he sought to frame the election results overall in a positive light: the Conservatives won more seats than last time, more votes than last time, denied the Liberals a majority and held the NDP at bay too.
“We know that change is needed but change is hard to come by,” he said early Tuesday morning.
“It takes time. It takes work and that’s why we have to learn the lessons of tonight so that we can have an even better result the next time.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives to address supporters at his campaign headquarters on election night in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
In his speech to supporters at TD Place Arena in Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney said early Tuesday morning that America is interested in Canada’s land, resources, water and the country.
He said the country is now over what he called the “American betrayal.” The days and months ahead will be challenging and will call for some sacrifices, he said, but added that workers and businesses will be supported.
Mr. Carney said his government will build one economy for the country, not 13. (There are a total of 10 provinces and three territories).
The Liberal government is committed to free trade within the country by Canada Day, he said. “This is Canada, and we decide what happens here.”
The country must take steps such as to strengthen relationships with reliable partners in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, he added.
He said that when he sits down with U.S. President Trump, “it will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations.”
Mr. Carney said he intends to govern for all Canadians after what he called a “most consequential election.”
“Let’s put an end to the division and anger of the past,” Mr. Carney said. “We are all Canadian and my government will work for and with everyone.”
The 60-year-old said that over his long career, he has made many mistakes and he will make more. “But I commit to admitting them openly, to correcting them quickly, and always learning from them.”
04/29/25 04:19
Liberals return to power with fourth consecutive mandate
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Liberal Party election night headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario on April 29, 2025.Carlos Osorio/Reuters
Mark Carney, the former central banker who sought elected office for the first time, led the Liberals to a minority-government victory Monday in an election that was upended by Donald Trump’s trade war and musings about annexation amid persistent concerns over the spiralling cost of living.
Canadians gave the Liberal Party its fourth mandate since 2015 but the race against the Conservatives was much tighter than polls predicted. At 4:15 a.m., the Liberals were leading or elected in 168 ridings and the Conservatives in 144. The Bloc Québécois had 23 seats, the New Democrats were at seven and the Greens at one.
The Liberals had a slim lead in the popular vote at 43.2 per cent to the Conservatives’ 41.7.
Likein2019 and 2021, the Liberals will need to govern with the support of one of the opposition parties, which brings continued instability, with the threat of defeat hanging over the government.
Still, the win is a remarkable achievement for Mr. Carney, a political rookie who promised to stand up to the U.S. President and change Canada’s economic direction. He easily won his Ottawa-area riding of Nepean.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals retained power in the federal election on Monday (April 28), but fell short of the majority government he had wanted to help him negotiate tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump. Ryan Chang reports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney walks into his office on Tuesday, the day after his Liberal Party’s election victory.Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
04/29/25 19:03
Six new Liberal MPs from the business world to watch for in Carney’s cabinet
– Jameson Berkow
The Liberal Party of Canada has won its fourth consecutive mandate, but there will be several new faces on the government benches when the House of Commons resumes.
Many of those rookie Liberal members of Parliament boast impressive business credentials, making them strong contenders for a coveted position in the next federal cabinet. Chief among them is Tim Hodgson, who won in a suburban Toronto riding after a lifetime in high finance, including a stint advising then-Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney.
The list of neophyte Liberal MPs also includes a former Quebec finance minister, a veteran diplomat, a former president of IBM Canada and an internationally trained lawyer with an Oxford MBA.
Eight close races that could still change the final election result
– Moira Wyton
While the Liberals are on track to form a minority government after initial counting of ballots finished today, the final results could still change with recounts expected in some tight ridings.
Here’s a look at eight close riding results where judicial recounts may be automatically triggered, or where candidates might request a recount.
Terra Nova – The Peninsulas
Initial counts show Liberal incumbent Anthony Germain winning the Newfoundland seat by just 12 votes over Conservative Jonathan Rowe, a difference of 0.03 per cent of the total votes cast. That’s below the 0.1 per cent threshold under which a judicial recount must take place, according to the Canada Elections Act.
Terrebonne
In the Quebec riding of Terrebonne, outside Laval, initial results show Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste narrowly flipped the seat from the Bloc Québécois with 35 votes over incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, a difference of 0.06 per cent.
Windsor – Tecumseh – Lakeshore
The Conservatives took this Southwestern Ontario riding from the Liberals, according to initial counts. Cathy Borelli had 233 more votes than incumbent Irek Kusmierczyk, a difference of 0.3 per cent of total votes cast.
Milton East – Halton Hills South
Another Ontario riding held by the Liberals appears to have been flipped by the Conservatives. Parm Gill won by 298 votes over incumbent Kristina Tesser Derksen, a difference of 0.4 per cent of the total votes cast.
Kitchener Centre
In this Ontario riding, 358 votes have put Conservative candidate Kelly DeRidder over Green Party incumbent Mike Morrice, taking one of only two seats held by the Greens going into this election. DeRidder has won with a 0.6-per-cent margin after initial counts.
Vancouver Kingsway
Longtime NDP MP Don Davies appears to have held on to his Vancouver riding as his party suffered a stunning defeat in the province and across the country. Initial tallies put Davies 310 votes over Liberal Amy Gill, a 0.6-per-cent margin.
Kitchener – Conestoga
Liberal incumbent Tim Louis has fended off the Conservatives to hold his riding by 522 votes over Doug Treleaven, according to initial counts. It’s a margin of 0.8 per cent.
Shefford
While the Bloc was reduced across Quebec, incumbent Andréanne Larouche appears to have fended off Liberal Félix Dionne to hold her riding in the Eastern Townships by 571 votes. A margin of 0.9 per cent of total votes separates the two candidates.
The Canada Elections Act requires a judicial recount, supervised by a superior court judge, to be conducted in any riding where the difference in votes between the top two candidates is less than one one-thousandth – or 0.1 per cent – of total votes cast in the district. The results of a judicial recount are final and cannot be corrected or altered by a returning officer or the Chief Electoral Officer, according to Elections Canada.
Candidates or any eligible voter in the district can also apply before a judge to request a judicial recount in a riding if they believe votes were improperly counted, rejected or added up by an election or returning officer. This is a court proceeding with a relatively low burden of proof to have an application accepted by the judge, according to Elections Canada. At the end, the judge either dismisses the application or annuls the result of the election, and the decision can be challenged in the Supreme Court of Canada.
04/29/25 17:30
NDP doesn’t have party status, but could hold balance of power with Liberals on track for minority
– The Canadian Press
After a brutal election night Monday, the NDP finds itself without official party status, but with the prospect of holding the balance of power with the Liberals on track to form a minority government.
There is a “paradox” in the party’s situation, said Karl Bélanger, former NDP strategist and president of Traxxion Strategies.
“Even though they have had their worst electoral result in history … they keep the balance of power and with that, they can potentially negotiate some gains with the Liberal party,” he said.
Pollster David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, said the NDP had their worst performance ever, both in terms of seats and the popular vote.
“They find themselves in a very weak position, despite perhaps having the balance of power in Parliament,” he said. “A very small caucus could still be playing an oversized role going forward.”
04/29/25 17:00
Carney, Trump agree to meet in person after Liberal election victory
– Steven Chase, Adrian Morrow
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday following the Liberal Party’s election victory and the two men agreed to meet in person shortly.
“President Trump congratulated Prime Minister Carney on his recent election,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a readout of the call.
“The leaders agreed on the importance of Canada and the United States working together – as independent, sovereign nations – for their mutual betterment,” the statement said.
“To that end, the leaders agreed to meet in person in the near future.”
04/29/25 16:35
Close Atlantic riding of Terra Nova declared a Liberal win, but recount possible
– Lindsay Jones
The Newfoundland and Labrador riding of Terra Nova – The Peninsulas has now been declared a Liberal win, bringing the total number of seats for the party in the Atlantic region to 25, a gain of one.
An early projection on election night from The Canadian Press said Conservative candidate Jonathan Rowe had won. But a final tally of votes on Tuesday put Liberal Anthony Germain, a CBC journalist, ahead by 12 votes.
According to Elections Canada, an automatic judicial recount takes place if the difference in votes between the leading candidates is less than one one-thousandth of the total votes cast. In this case, that threshold would be 63 votes.
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives on stage at his campaign headquarters in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
After initial counting of ballots by late afternoon Tuesday, the Liberals are sitting at 169 seats, putting them on course for a potential minority government. That would leave the party just a handful of seats short of a majority, which requires 172 seats.
Recounts are expected in some close races across the country and the results could change in the coming days.
04/29/25 15:30
New U.S. ambassador to Canada congratulates PM Carney
– Steven Chase, Adrian Morrow
The new U.S. ambassador to Canada congratulated Prime Minister Mark Carney on his Liberal election victory and said Washington and Ottawa now have “a big job ahead of us” as both countries prepare for negotiations on a new economic and security relationship.
It was Pete Hoekstra’s first official statement as ambassador, just hours after he presented his letters of credence to Governor-General Mary Simon and formally began his duties as envoy in Canada.
Late last month, Mr. Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to begin comprehensive talks on a new economic and security relationship following the election.
“We’ve got a big job ahead of us – reviewing and strengthening our strong trading partnership, securing our borders, confronting the deadly threat of fentanyl to our citizens, building our national security cooperation, and fulfilling our alliance commitments,” Mr. Hoekstra said in the statement.
“We must also invest in defending North America economically and militarily for the next century.”
04/29/25 14:59
Opinion: For the NDP, a gut-wrenching loss with a period of soul searching to follow
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addresses supporters at his campaign headquarters in Burnaby, B.C.Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
In the end, the New Democratic Party was no match for the threat U.S. President Donald Trump posed to Canada.
And to a lesser extent, it didn’t have an answer for a Conservative Party led by an extremely effective communicator in Pierre Poilievre, who spoke to the issues that animated a lot of New Democrats, like bringing down the cost of groceries and heating bills, making housing more affordable and dealing with rampant crime.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his party didn’t have the firepower or the ideas or strategic battle plan to take on those forces.
Election night in Canada was just bad for the NDP all around. Mr. Singh lost his own seat and announced he will be stepping down as leader. Any attempts to hang on would have been a farce. It is time for a new leader and, frankly, it might have been time before the last election. The party only won seven seats Monday, although the results remain unofficial. It needed 12 to maintain official party status, with the money and resources that come with it. That hurts.
I will say this about Mr. Singh: He is a fundamentally decent human being who embodies the kindness and humility of the great Jack Layton. He showed remarkable class in defeat.
Mark Carney arrives at the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council on Monday.Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images
The Liberals won the federal election with an unambitious, play-it-safe platform of personal finance measures that half-heartedly ticked boxes such as tax cuts and help for seniors.
Expect things to be a lot more interesting in the months and years ahead as the new government makes decisions affecting core financial issues such as the cost of an aging population, financial security for seniors and housing affordability. Broader economic decisions will affect interest rates and the stock market.
Blanchet criticized by Parti Québécois as he promises to work with other leaders
– The Canadian Press
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is calling for a “partisan truce” with other federal party leaders after Monday’s federal election, even as he faces criticism from his party’s provincial cousins for putting sovereignty aside.
Mr. Blanchet told reporters in Montreal that voters want stability in Parliament in order to address the ongoing trade war with the United States.
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon criticized the Bloc Tuesday for treating Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney as a partner and for agreeing to suspend the push for Quebec independence while U.S. trade negotiations take place.
Mr. Blanchet said he remains committed to sovereignty but is convinced the population wants politicians to fix the trade situation first. He added that collaboration can only work if Mr. Carney shows respect for Quebec’s position on issues such as secularism, immigration and protection of the French language.
04/29/25 14:46
B.C. Premier David Eby not interested in taking on federal NDP leadership
– The Canadian Press
B.C. Premier David Eby says he’s not interested in taking the helm of the federal NDP, as the party seeks a new leader following Monday’s election.
Mr. Eby would not say who he thinks should take on the role but acknowledged Tuesday it’s going to be a “challenging job” after a “tough night” for the party.
Jagmeet Singh said Monday night he will step down once an interim party leader can be named. Mr. Singh made the announcement after he lost his seat, and results indicated the NDP would lose official party status in the House of Commons.
While final votes are still being counted, the NDP is expected to end up with seven MPs, down from 24 when Parliament was dissolved.
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles said that while this was a “very tough election” with a “difficult result,” the party is sending some strong MPs back to Parliament.
04/29/25 14:30
Voter turnout reaches over 19.2 million, surpassing 2021 election
People wait in line to register to vote at a polling station in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
Elections Canada says more than 67 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot in Monday’s federal election.
More than 19.2 million Canadians voted, according to preliminary figures from the non-partisan agency.
Turnout was higher than in the last federal election in 2021, when 62.6 per cent of eligible voters headed to the polls.
While this election was widely expected to see increased turnout, it did not surpass the record set in March, 1958, when 79.4 per cent of eligible electors voted. In that election, incumbent Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker secured a majority against Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson, who went on to become PM in 1963.
However, with votes still being counted, turnout figures still have some room to climb.
04/29/25 14:10
Potential minority Parliament could prompt higher deficits amid party compromises, economists say
– The Canadian Press
As the Liberal Party could form a minority government following the election, economists say the focus now shifts toward Prime Minister Mark Carney’s spending promises amid the trade war with the United States.
CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld said in a post-election note that budget deficits “look likely to head higher in the near term,” adding that is typical when Canada experiences an economic shock and governments lean on fiscal stimulus.
“Deficits are likely to somewhat exceed what the Liberals suggested during the campaign, while still tracking miles below U.S. federal deficits as a share of GDP,” he said.
Shenfeld said higher deficits could be in the cards especially with a minority Parliament looking likely, as votes continue being tallied.
04/29/25 13:55
A preliminary look at voter turnout
– Globe staff
Elections Canada’s turnout figures are preliminary, but overall, as experts expected, they do not break records in the way that advance polls did over the Easter weekend. Turnout is higher than recent campaigns, but it would have had to reach 75.3 per cent to match the consequential elections of 1984 and 1988, which, like this one, centred on Canada-U.S. relations and trade.
04/29/25 13:05
Doug Ford says he’s focused on unity after MP accuses the premier of sabotage
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Thursday, April 17, 2025.Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said today that he wants to focus on unity, refusing to shoot back at a rant from a Conservative MP calling the premier a “problem,” an opportunist and a Liberal “hype man.”
Jamil Jivani, who won Bowmanville-Oshawa North, said in an interview with CBC on election night that Ford inserted himself in the federal campaign and Conservatives should not be taking advice from him.
Ford would not take Jivani’s bait in the wake of Poilievre’s loss, saying only that all Canadians have to stand together against the real threat, which is the economic harm that will be caused by Trump’s tariffs.
“I’m focusing on unity right across this country,” Ford said when asked about Jivani’s comments.
“We have to bring this country together like we’ve never had before. Each other are not the enemies. There’s one person that’s causing a real problem, not just here (but) around the world, and that’s President Trump.”
04/29/25 13:03
Liberals sweep most of Nova Scotia
– Lindsay Jones
The Liberal Party swept most of Nova Scotia, with the Conservatives losing two seats, leaving the province with just one Tory MP, in Acadie-Annapolis, where Chris d’Entremont hung onto his seat by a slim margin – 470 votes with one poll left to report as of early Tuesday afternoon.
Late Monday night, the riding of Cumberland-Colchester, held by Conservative Stephen Ellis, switched from blue to red as final polls were tabulated, propelling Liberal Alana Hirtle to the win.
04/29/25 12:31
Liberals maintain their grip in Atlantic Canada
– The Canadian Press
With 98 per cent of the polls in Atlantic Canada reporting, the Liberals were elected or leading in 25 of 32 ridings, and the Conservatives were at seven. The New Democrats were not in contention, capturing less than five per cent of the popular vote. If those results hold when the final ballots are counted, the Liberals will end up with one more seat in the region than they won in the 2021 election.
The party has dominated the region for almost 10 years, though its grip has slightly loosened since Justin Trudeau was first elected to govern in 2015, when the Liberals won all 32 seats.
04/29/25 11:51
This election was a mixed bag for Liberals who came up in the Trudeau era
– Joe Friesen, Patrick White
Although Donald Trump was always the backdrop of Canada’s federal election, some voters saw Monday as a referendum on the more than nine years the Liberals held office under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The results were a mixed bag for Liberals tied to Mr. Trudeau’s government, with some retaining their ridings while others were ousted.
Sean Fraser responds to a question from the media after announcing he is leaving federal politics, Monday, Dec 16, 2024 in Ottawa. He came back and won his seat.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Former immigration and housing minister Sean Fraser won his Central Nova seat despite trailing in early returns. Mr. Fraser had announced he wouldn’t run in this election but changed his mind a few months later. He topped Conservative Brycen Jenkins by a margin of about 4,000 votes – 52 per cent to 43 per cent.
Anita Anand held five different portfolios under Justin Trudeau.ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP/Getty Images
Anita Anand won Oakville East, surviving a spirited challenge from former police officer Ron Chhinzer. She held five different portfolios under Mr. Trudeau, becoming one of the faces of Ottawa’s pandemic response as minister of public services and procurement. Prime Minister Mark Carney made her Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry in March.
Bryan May lost to Conservative Connie Cody.Supplied
Bryan May, who served briefly as parliamentary secretary to Mr. Trudeau, lost his Cambridge riding to Conservative Connie Cody. Mr. May also served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of national defence in 2021 before taking on the same post with the small business ministry.
Kamal Khera lost her seat to Conservative Amarjeet Gill.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Short-lived Minister of Health Kamal Khera fell to Conservative Amarjeet Gill in Brampton West. A registered nurse, Ms. Khera was sworn in as minister of health shortly after Mr. Carney became Prime Minister in March. Previously, she had been minister of diversity, inclusion and persons with disabilities, which she took on after serving as minister of seniors.
Ya’ara Saks was also unseated by her Conservative counterpart.Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press
Ya’ara Saks, a former minister of mental health and addictions, was unseated by Conservative Roman Baber in York Centre. A former MPP, Mr. Baber was kicked out of the provincial PC caucus for an open letter criticizing his government’s pandemic response that stated: “Lockdowns are deadlier than Covid.”
Sohi won about 39 per cent of the vote to his opponent’s 53 per cent.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi lost the Edmonton-Southeast riding to Conservative Jagsharan Singh Mahal. Mr. Sohi, a former bus driver, Liberal MP and cabinet minister who was elected mayor in 2021, took a leave of absence from his city job to run in this election. He won about 39 per cent of the vote to his opponent’s 53 per cent.
04/29/25 11:09
Danielle Smith says UCP will hold ‘special’ caucus meeting to discuss Alberta’s future after Liberal win
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a national conference in Ottawa on April 10, 2025.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her United Conservative Party will hold a “special caucus meeting” Friday to discuss the province’s future now that the federal government remains under Liberal control.
In a statement Tuesday, Ms. Smith congratulated Liberal Leader Mark Carney for his party’s victory in the federal election. She also thanked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for fighting for causes that align with her worldview.
A small but loud faction of conservative Albertans is pressing for the province to leave Confederation now that the Liberals have secured their fourth consecutive term. Ms. Smith, who said she would not lead the charge but is not deterring would-be separatists, on Tuesday said her fellow citizens will “no longer tolerate having our industries threatened” and resources landlocked by Ottawa.
“In the weeks and months ahead, Albertans will have an opportunity to discuss our province’s future, assess various options for strengthening and protecting our province against future hostile acts from Ottawa, and to ultimately choose a path forward,” she said in her statement.
“As Premier, I will facilitate and lead this discussion and process with the sincere hope of securing a prosperous future for our province within a united Canada that respects our province’s constitutional rights, facilitates rather than blocks the development and export of our abundant resources, and treats us as a valued and respected partner within Confederation.”
She added that she will have more to say after Friday’s special caucus meeting.
04/29/25 10:46
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04/29/25 10:37
What the Liberals’ election win means for your personal finances
– Meera Raman and Mariya Postelnyak
The Liberal Party has won the federal election, and Prime Minister Mark Carney will have his work cut out for him as Canadians face the financial impacts of the trade war and ongoing cost of living concerns.
Here’s a breakdown of the major personal finance promises – from retirement to taxes – the party made during the election campaign, and how they could impact your pocketbook.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Thursday, April 17, 2025.Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he looks forward to working with Mark Carney’s Liberals to meet a “crucial” moment for the province and for Canada.
Ford is calling on Carney to make good on promises to help tear down internal trade barriers and speed approvals for resource development projects, including in the mineral-rich Ring of Fire region in northern Ontario.
In a statement this morning, the premier also urged the new Liberal government to get infrastructure such as pipelines, highways and rail lines built to help Canadian goods and reduce reliance on the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump had a looming presence in the federal campaign and in the provincial election that re-elected Ford two months ago.
Both Carney and Ford were pulled away from their campaigns to respond to American tariff announcements.
04/29/25 09:46
Financial analysts react to the federal election results
– Reuters
Market reaction has been muted. The Canadian dollar was barely changed at 1.3830 U.S. dollar, or 72.31 U.S. cents and Canada’s 10-year government bond yield was up less than a basis point at 3.174 per cent.
Canada’s main stock index also edged higher at the open on Tuesday. At 9:31 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 0.08 per cent at 24,819.43 points.
Here are some comments from financial analysts:
ANTHONY VISANO, HEAD OF INVESTMENT RESEARCH, KINGWEST AND CO
“The uncertainty of trade still rules the day. Until we get certainty around cabinet appointments and negotiations around NAFTA 2.0, I think we’re still kind of in this uncertain period. But broadly speaking, from our perspective, we’re quite optimistic and excited about Canada’s prospects.
“There’s a Canada-first mindset, some optimism around trade, inter-country trade, the willingness to get pipelines done.”
BRIAN MADDEN, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, FIRST AVENUE INVESTMENT COUNSEL
“Carney is going to have to choose his cabinet ministers carefully. He’s going to have some people with experience running these portfolios, but he’s also going to have to have enough fresh faces to send a message to the public and to the opposition party that his agenda is different than that of his predecessor.”
STEPHEN BROWN, DEPUTY CHIEF NORTH AMERICA ECONOMIST, CAPITAL ECONOMICS
“Although the Liberals have just missed out on a majority, Prime Minister Mark Carney should still be able to implement his fiscal plans with support from the NDP or Bloc Québécois. If anything, the need to grant concessions to those parties means fiscal policy could end up even looser than the Liberals have signaled.
“That presents a modest risk to our view that the Bank of Canada will cut another three times this year, which would probably prevent the loonie and bond yields from falling by as much as we anticipate.”
SHAUN OSBORNE AND ERIC THEORET, STRATEGISTS AT SCOTIABANK
“The CAD slipped marginally in overnight trade but is trading little changed on the day now and USD-CAD risk reversal pricing shows little change in skew through the 1– ,3– and 6-month tenors, suggesting markets are not overly concerned about another minority government at this point – despite the challenges ahead for Canada.”
04/29/25 09:22
The province where a majority of flipped ridings took place
– Chen Wang
Of the 54 seats that changed hands in last night’s federal election, most of those flips took place in Ontario. The province saw 22 ridings dump their incumbent MPs, while there were 11 flips in Quebec, 10 in British Columbia, eight in the Prairies and three in Atlantic Canada.
Although the Liberals lost 18 seats to the Conservatives – 14 of them in Ontario – they made up for those losses elsewhere. In Quebec, the Liberals took nine seats from the Bloc Québécois and another nine from the Conservatives, including three in Ontario and two in Nova Scotia.
The NDP lost 15 seats overall – nine to the Conservatives and six to the Liberals, with eight of those losses in British Columbia.
Some of the flipped seats are in ridings with redrawn boundaries. To determine whether a riding flipped, The Globe and Mail looked at whether a sitting MP prior to redistribution was seeking re-election. In cases where there was no incumbent, the incumbent was considered to be the party that controlled the old riding comprising the largest percentage of the population in the new riding.
04/29/25 09:02
A snapshot of the ridings that flipped
– Greg Mercer and Chen Wang
Fifty-four ridings changed hands in Monday’s federal election. In Atlantic Canada and Quebec, the Liberals won key electoral districts, while the Conservatives knocked out incumbents in the Greater Toronto Area and Winnipeg. Here is a snapshot of five of them.
South Shore–St. Margarets (Nova Scotia)
Jessica Fancy-Landry was acclaimed the Liberal candidate in this Nova Scotia riding in January when the party was still riding low in the polls – and rode the swing in voter opinion all the way to victory over Conservative incumbent MP Rick Perkins. Mr. Perkins, who was an outspoken critic of the Liberals’ handling of the Indigenous lobster fishing dispute, had unseated fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan in 2021 to win here.
Rivière-des-Mille-Îles (Quebec)
Liberal gains in Quebec were a big story on election night, and Linda Lapointe’s victory in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles over incumbent Luc Desilets of the Bloc Québécois was part of that trend. Across the province, the Trump effect was powerful – with Bloc candidates saying voters told them they were worried about U.S. tariffs and wanted a strong Liberal delegation to stand up for Canada.
Aurora–Oak Ridges–Richmond Hill (Ontario)
Conservative candidate Costas Menegakis took this Ontario riding from the Liberals, defeating incumbent Leah Taylor Roy. Despite a late campaign stop by Liberal Leader Mark Carney, the seat was among the gains made in suburban Ontario by the Tories, who focused on “bread and butter” issues such as affordability and concerns about crime, Mr. Menegakis said.
Elmwood–Transcona (Manitoba)
Conservative Colin Reynolds won this Winnipeg-area riding, defeating incumbent MP Leila Dance as the New Democrats were sidelined in what became a two-horse race. Traditionally an NDP stronghold, Ms. Dance narrowly beat Mr. Reynolds here in a September, 2024, by-election to replace NDP MP Daniel Blaikie.
Victoria (British Columbia)
The Liberals broke the NDP’s 20-year grip on Victoria Monday night when Will Greaves defeated incumbent MP Laurel Collins. Ms. Collins told her supporters she had heard at the door that people wanted to vote NDP but felt afraid with Donald Trump in the White House. Similar stories played out across B.C., including in Burnaby Central, where NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced plans to resign after being unseated in his own riding.
04/29/25 08:50
Liberals face disappointment in Ontario as Conservatives surge in GTA ridings
Voters line up to cast their ballot at a polling station in Toronto.Wa Lone/Reuters
TheLiberal Party faced its most disappointing results in Monday night’s election in Ontario, losing ground to the Conservatives, particularly in the suburban 905 region that surrounds Toronto.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made breakthroughs in the Toronto-area ridings of the 905 area, named for its telephone area code, as well as strong showings elsewhere.
While the map still showed a large patch of Liberal red in the party’s strongholds in the Greater Toronto Area, several races in the region there were extremely tight. In some ridings, evaporating NDP support did not translate into expected Liberal wins.
In the 905, Conservative Costas Menegaskis defeated Liberal Leah Taylor Roy in Aurora–Oak Ridges–Richmond Hill, a riding the Liberals won by a razor-thin margin in 2021. The Conservatives also flipped Liberal ridings in Newmarket-Aurora and Brampton West, and Markham–Unionville, where Liberal Paul Chiang quit after a scandal over comments he made about handing a rival over to Chinese authorities.
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet speaks to supporters on election night.Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press
The Liberals made significant gains in Quebec at the expense of the Bloc Québécois on Monday.
Mr. Carney’s party was leading or elected in 43 Quebec ridings late Monday night, compared with 23 for the Bloc, 11 for the Conservatives, and one for the NDP.
The battleground suburbs and rural areas around Montreal – the so-called 450, after the local area code – seem to have been decisive for the Liberals.
The party was hoping to improve on its 35 seats won in 2021 with a red wave in Quebec. The Bloc aimed to save the furniture, and most of the party’s 32 seats from the last election, after its support plummeted.
The sovereigntist party managed better than initially feared. In the newly redrawn riding of Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj, the lawyer Alexis Deschênes defeated former Liberal cabinet minister Diane Lebouthillier, a significant pickup.
Voters have their names checked in a polling station during Canada’s federal election in Calgary, Alberta, on April 28, 2025.Ahmed Zakot/Reuters
Alberta is set to return a platoon of Conservative candidates to Ottawa in Monday’s federal election, although a handful of city ridings hosted tight races, underlining the province’s rural-urban divide.
The Conservative Party won all but three of Alberta’s 37 ridings, according to the preliminary results Monday evening. The Liberals held Edmonton Centre and picked up Calgary Centre, while the New Democratic Party won Edmonton Strathcona, which it has controlled since 2008.
Elections Canada estimated voter turnout in Alberta exceeded 63 per cent. It counted 2,064,167 votes with 96 per cent of polls reporting. As of April 25, Elections Canada estimated 3,234,505 people were registered to vote in the province.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre walks with new MP for Durham Jamil Jivani as he takes his place in the House of Commons before Question Period, April 8, 2024 in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Simmering tensions between federal Conservatives and Ontario Premier Doug Ford burst into full view on election night as Jamil Jivani, the Conservative MP for Bowmanville—Oshawa North, used his victory speech to accuse Mr. Ford of undermining the federal party’s campaign.
During a subsequent on-air interview with CBC, Mr. Jivani called Mr. Ford “a problem for Ontario and for Canada.”
“He’s taken the provincial conservative party and turned into something hollow,” he continued. “Something that is unprincipled and doesn’t solve problems. He’s gladhanding with Chrystia Freeland, having coffees and lattes with Mark Carney and I’m sitting here saying we need to be fighting for change and something new and something different, not being a hype man to the Liberal party.
During the federal campaign, Mr. Ford declined to help Pierre Poilievre and defended and an advisor who accused Mr. Poilievre’s team of committing “campaign malpractice” by blowing an almost 25-point lead heading into the election.
Mr. Jivani once worked for Mr. Ford as a special advisor and province’s first Advocate for Community Opportunities, but resigned in 2022 after criticizing the government’s pandemic policies.
“I’m speaking from experience,” he told CBC. “I tried to fix problems in this province and [Ford] kept getting in the way and all his goons around him all the time.”
04/29/25 07:49
Elections Canada pauses vote counting with Liberal majority still in question
– The Canadian Press
Elections Canada decided early Tuesday morning to pause the marathon counting of special ballots with a handful of ridings still too close to call.
A majority government would allow the Liberals to pass legislation without the support of other parties. If the final result remains a minority, the Liberals would need help to stay in power.
Special ballots are cast by mail or at Elections Canada offices by voters who are away from their ridings during the election.
The counting was to resume at 9:30 a.m. ET
04/29/25 07:36
Pierre Poilievre projected to lose his Ottawa-area riding, with two polls still to be reported
Pierre Poilievre speaks to supporters alongside his wife Anaida Poilievre after the election was declared for the Liberal Party.Amber Bracken/Reuters
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his Ottawa-area seat to Liberal challenger Bruce Fanjoy, making him the second federal leader to be rejected by voters in Monday’s election.
With 264 out of 266 polls reporting early Tuesday, Mr. Fanjoy won 50.6 per cent of the vote to Mr. Poilievre’s 46.1 per cent.
Elections Canada paused the counting of special ballots early Tuesday with a handful of ridings still too close to call, including Mr. Poilievre’s. Counting was to resume at 9:30 a.m.
Mr. Poilievre had previously won seven times in the riding of Carleton or predecessor ridings in the region. The 45-year-old won with 52 per cent of the vote in 2021 and 46 per cent in 2019.
Ballot counting in the riding was slowed by a protest against the first-past-the-post electoral system that saw 85 activists run in the riding, making the ballot 91 names long.
The NDP’s Jagmeet Singh conceded his riding in British Columbia and resigned as leader of the party.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Mark Carney and said Ukraine deeply valued stressed Canada’s support “from military, financial, and humanitarian assistance to imposing sanctions against Russia.”
“We are confident that our partnership will only grow stronger in our shared pursuit of peace, justice, and security,” Mr. Zelensky added.
04/29/25 07:26
French President Emmanuel Macron congratulates Carney
– Paul Waldie
French President Emmanuel Macron referenced Mark Carney’s “elbows up” rallying cry in a congratulatory post on social media. “France is glad to further strengthen the friendship which unites our two countries,” Mr. Macron said in a post on X. “I’m looking forward to working with you — “elbow to elbow!”
04/29/25 07:21
World leaders congratulate Carney
– Paul Waldie
World leaders have congratulated Mark Carney on leading the Liberals to victory on Monday with some signaling that it marks the start of a stronger relationship with Canada in the face of growing unease with U.S. President Donald Trump.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said “the bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.”
“I look forward to working closely together, both bilaterally and within the G7. We’ll defend our shared democratic values, promote multilateralism, and champion free and fair trade,” she added on Tuesday.
In his congratulatory message, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer noted the connections between Mr. Carney and the UK, stemming from the Canadian Prime Minister’s time as Governor of the Bank of England.
“With your leadership, and personal ties to the UK, I know the relationship between our two countries will continue to grow,” Mr. Starmer said in a statement. “We will work together to deepen our economic relationship to deliver security for hardworking people in the UK and Canada – which we were both elected to do.”
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh addresses supporters at his campaign headquarters on election night, in Burnaby, B.C., Monday, April 28, 2025.Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
Jagmeet Singh announced Monday night he will step down as NDP leader after a disappointing result that saw a major decline in the party’s seat count.
He said he will resign as soon as an interim leader can be named after he failed to win his seat in the Burnaby Central riding.
Mr. Singh choked up several times as he thanked his family, his caucus and his staff.
“Almost eight years ago I was elected the leader of this incredible party, this incredible movement. I worked really hard to be worthy of this trust, to live up to the legacy of our movement,” he said. “I’ll be stepping down as leader.”
The New Democratic Party was poised to return to Ottawa with a much smaller team. Earlier in the night, NDP national director Anne McGrath said she was still hopeful the party would outperform polling predictions.
As of press time, the NDP were leading in eight ridings, a disappointing result after winning 25 seats in the 2021 election. The party needs 12 seats to maintain official party status.
The party had garnered just over 5 per cent of the popular vote nationally, a sharp decline from the 17.8-per-cent share of the national vote that the party received in 2021.
“Obviously I’m disappointed that we could not win more seats, but I’m not disappointed in our movement. I’m hopeful for our party,” Mr. Singh told supporters.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to supporters on election night in Ottawa, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris YoungChris Young/The Canadian Press
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered his party’s best showing in over a decade but failed to form government in an election that saw his party pick up new seats across the country –even as, early into Tuesday morning, his own seat remained a question mark.
With 250 of 266 polls reporting as of 2:45 Tuesday morning, the Liberals were tracking towards capturing the riding of Carleton, which Mr. Poilievre has held since 2004.
It was a result that came even as he expanded his party’s base of support in Monday’s vote into the Greater Toronto Area, Lower Mainland and parts of the Atlantic, holding the Liberals to a minority government.
He did not acknowledge his personal political prospects early Tuesday morning as he sought to frame the election results overall in a positive light: the Conservatives won more seats than last time, more votes than last time, denied the Liberals a majority and held the NDP at bay too.
“We know that change is needed but change is hard to come by,” he said early Tuesday morning.
“It takes time. It takes work and that’s why we have to learn the lessons of tonight so that we can have an even better result the next time.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives to address supporters at his campaign headquarters on election night in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
In his speech to supporters at TD Place Arena in Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney said early Tuesday morning that America is interested in Canada’s land, resources, water and the country.
He said the country is now over what he called the “American betrayal.” The days and months ahead will be challenging and will call for some sacrifices, he said, but added that workers and businesses will be supported.
Mr. Carney said his government will build one economy for the country, not 13. (There are a total of 10 provinces and three territories).
The Liberal government is committed to free trade within the country by Canada Day, he said. “This is Canada, and we decide what happens here.”
The country must take steps such as to strengthen relationships with reliable partners in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, he added.
He said that when he sits down with U.S. President Trump, “it will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations.”
Mr. Carney said he intends to govern for all Canadians after what he called a “most consequential election.”
“Let’s put an end to the division and anger of the past,” Mr. Carney said. “We are all Canadian and my government will work for and with everyone.”
The 60-year-old said that over his long career, he has made many mistakes and he will make more. “But I commit to admitting them openly, to correcting them quickly, and always learning from them.”
04/29/25 04:19
Liberals return to power with fourth consecutive mandate
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Liberal Party election night headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario on April 29, 2025.Carlos Osorio/Reuters
Mark Carney, the former central banker who sought elected office for the first time, led the Liberals to a minority-government victory Monday in an election that was upended by Donald Trump’s trade war and musings about annexation amid persistent concerns over the spiralling cost of living.
Canadians gave the Liberal Party its fourth mandate since 2015 but the race against the Conservatives was much tighter than polls predicted. At 4:15 a.m., the Liberals were leading or elected in 168 ridings and the Conservatives in 144. The Bloc Québécois had 23 seats, the New Democrats were at seven and the Greens at one.
The Liberals had a slim lead in the popular vote at 43.2 per cent to the Conservatives’ 41.7.
Likein2019 and 2021, the Liberals will need to govern with the support of one of the opposition parties, which brings continued instability, with the threat of defeat hanging over the government.
Still, the win is a remarkable achievement for Mr. Carney, a political rookie who promised to stand up to the U.S. President and change Canada’s economic direction. He easily won his Ottawa-area riding of Nepean.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals retained power in the federal election on Monday (April 28), but fell short of the majority government he had wanted to help him negotiate tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump. Ryan Chang reports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives at the Office of the Prime Minister in Ottawa on April 29, 2025.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
04/29/25 17:45
When is a recount triggered in a close race?
– Moira Wyton
The Canada Elections Act requires a judicial recount, supervised by a superior court judge, to be conducted in any riding where the difference in votes between the top two candidates is less than one one-thousandth – or 0.1 per cent – of total votes cast in the district. The results of a judicial recount are final and cannot be corrected or altered by a returning officer or the Chief Electoral Officer, according to Elections Canada.
Candidates or any eligible voter in the district can also apply before a judge to request a judicial recount in a riding if they believe votes were improperly counted, rejected or added up by an election or returning officer. This is a court proceeding with a relatively low burden of proof to have an application accepted by the judge, according to Elections Canada. At the end, the judge either dismisses the application or annuls the result of the election, and the decision can be challenged in the Supreme Court of Canada.
04/29/25 17:30
NDP doesn’t have party status, but could hold balance of power with Liberals on track for minority
– The Canadian Press
After a brutal election night Monday, the NDP finds itself without official party status, but with the prospect of holding the balance of power with the Liberals on track to form a minority government.
There is a “paradox” in the party’s situation, said Karl Bélanger, former NDP strategist and president of Traxxion Strategies.
“Even though they have had their worst electoral result in history … they keep the balance of power and with that, they can potentially negotiate some gains with the Liberal party,” he said.
Pollster David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, said the NDP had their worst performance ever, both in terms of seats and the popular vote.
“They find themselves in a very weak position, despite perhaps having the balance of power in Parliament,” he said. “A very small caucus could still be playing an oversized role going forward.”
04/29/25 17:00
Carney, Trump agree to meet in person after Liberal election victory
– Steven Chase, Adrian Morrow
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday following the Liberal Party’s election victory and the two men agreed to meet in person shortly.
“President Trump congratulated Prime Minister Carney on his recent election,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a readout of the call.
“The leaders agreed on the importance of Canada and the United States working together – as independent, sovereign nations – for their mutual betterment,” the statement said.
“To that end, the leaders agreed to meet in person in the near future.”
04/29/25 16:35
Close Atlantic riding of Terra Nova declared a Liberal win, but recount possible
– Lindsay Jones
The Newfoundland and Labrador riding of Terra Nova – The Peninsulas has now been declared a Liberal win, bringing the total number of seats for the party in the Atlantic region to 25, a gain of one.
An early projection on election night from The Canadian Press said Conservative candidate Jonathan Rowe had won. But a final tally of votes on Tuesday put Liberal Anthony Germain, a CBC journalist, ahead by 12 votes.
According to Elections Canada, an automatic judicial recount takes place if the difference in votes between the leading candidates is less than one one-thousandth of the total votes cast. In this case, that threshold would be 63 votes.
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives on stage at his campaign headquarters in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
After initial counting of ballots by late afternoon Tuesday, the Liberals are sitting at 169 seats, putting them on course for a potential minority government. That would leave the party just a handful of seats short of a majority, which requires 172 seats.
Recounts are expected in some close races across the country and the results could change in the coming days.
04/29/25 15:30
New U.S. ambassador to Canada congratulates PM Carney
– Steven Chase, Adrian Morrow
The new U.S. ambassador to Canada congratulated Prime Minister Mark Carney on his Liberal election victory and said Washington and Ottawa now have “a big job ahead of us” as both countries prepare for negotiations on a new economic and security relationship.
It was Pete Hoekstra’s first official statement as ambassador, just hours after he presented his letters of credence to Governor-General Mary Simon and formally began his duties as envoy in Canada.
Late last month, Mr. Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to begin comprehensive talks on a new economic and security relationship following the election.
“We’ve got a big job ahead of us – reviewing and strengthening our strong trading partnership, securing our borders, confronting the deadly threat of fentanyl to our citizens, building our national security cooperation, and fulfilling our alliance commitments,” Mr. Hoekstra said in the statement.
“We must also invest in defending North America economically and militarily for the next century.”
04/29/25 14:59
Opinion: For the NDP, a gut-wrenching loss with a period of soul searching to follow
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addresses supporters at his campaign headquarters in Burnaby, B.C.Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
In the end, the New Democratic Party was no match for the threat U.S. President Donald Trump posed to Canada.
And to a lesser extent, it didn’t have an answer for a Conservative Party led by an extremely effective communicator in Pierre Poilievre, who spoke to the issues that animated a lot of New Democrats, like bringing down the cost of groceries and heating bills, making housing more affordable and dealing with rampant crime.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his party didn’t have the firepower or the ideas or strategic battle plan to take on those forces.
Election night in Canada was just bad for the NDP all around. Mr. Singh lost his own seat and announced he will be stepping down as leader. Any attempts to hang on would have been a farce. It is time for a new leader and, frankly, it might have been time before the last election. The party only won seven seats Monday, although the results remain unofficial. It needed 12 to maintain official party status, with the money and resources that come with it. That hurts.
I will say this about Mr. Singh: He is a fundamentally decent human being who embodies the kindness and humility of the great Jack Layton. He showed remarkable class in defeat.
Mark Carney arrives at the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council on Monday.Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images
The Liberals won the federal election with an unambitious, play-it-safe platform of personal finance measures that half-heartedly ticked boxes such as tax cuts and help for seniors.
Expect things to be a lot more interesting in the months and years ahead as the new government makes decisions affecting core financial issues such as the cost of an aging population, financial security for seniors and housing affordability. Broader economic decisions will affect interest rates and the stock market.
Blanchet criticized by Parti Québécois as he promises to work with other leaders
– The Canadian Press
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is calling for a “partisan truce” with other federal party leaders after Monday’s federal election, even as he faces criticism from his party’s provincial cousins for putting sovereignty aside.
Mr. Blanchet told reporters in Montreal that voters want stability in Parliament in order to address the ongoing trade war with the United States.
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon criticized the Bloc Tuesday for treating Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney as a partner and for agreeing to suspend the push for Quebec independence while U.S. trade negotiations take place.
Mr. Blanchet said he remains committed to sovereignty but is convinced the population wants politicians to fix the trade situation first. He added that collaboration can only work if Mr. Carney shows respect for Quebec’s position on issues such as secularism, immigration and protection of the French language.
04/29/25 14:46
B.C. Premier David Eby not interested in taking on federal NDP leadership
– The Canadian Press
B.C. Premier David Eby says he’s not interested in taking the helm of the federal NDP, as the party seeks a new leader following Monday’s election.
Mr. Eby would not say who he thinks should take on the role but acknowledged Tuesday it’s going to be a “challenging job” after a “tough night” for the party.
Jagmeet Singh said Monday night he will step down once an interim party leader can be named. Mr. Singh made the announcement after he lost his seat, and results indicated the NDP would lose official party status in the House of Commons.
While final votes are still being counted, the NDP is expected to end up with seven MPs, down from 24 when Parliament was dissolved.
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles said that while this was a “very tough election” with a “difficult result,” the party is sending some strong MPs back to Parliament.
04/29/25 14:30
Voter turnout reaches over 19.2 million, surpassing 2021 election
People wait in line to register to vote at a polling station in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
Elections Canada says more than 67 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot in Monday’s federal election.
More than 19.2 million Canadians voted, according to preliminary figures from the non-partisan agency.
Turnout was higher than in the last federal election in 2021, when 62.6 per cent of eligible voters headed to the polls.
While this election was widely expected to see increased turnout, it did not surpass the record set in March, 1958, when 79.4 per cent of eligible electors voted. In that election, incumbent Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker secured a majority against Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson, who went on to become PM in 1963.
However, with votes still being counted, turnout figures still have some room to climb.
04/29/25 14:10
Potential minority Parliament could prompt higher deficits amid party compromises, economists say
– The Canadian Press
As the Liberal Party could form a minority government following the election, economists say the focus now shifts toward Prime Minister Mark Carney’s spending promises amid the trade war with the United States.
CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld said in a post-election note that budget deficits “look likely to head higher in the near term,” adding that is typical when Canada experiences an economic shock and governments lean on fiscal stimulus.
“Deficits are likely to somewhat exceed what the Liberals suggested during the campaign, while still tracking miles below U.S. federal deficits as a share of GDP,” he said.
Shenfeld said higher deficits could be in the cards especially with a minority Parliament looking likely, as votes continue being tallied.
04/29/25 13:55
A preliminary look at voter turnout
– Globe staff
Elections Canada’s turnout figures are preliminary, but overall, as experts expected, they do not break records in the way that advance polls did over the Easter weekend. Turnout is higher than recent campaigns, but it would have had to reach 75.3 per cent to match the consequential elections of 1984 and 1988, which, like this one, centred on Canada-U.S. relations and trade.
04/29/25 13:05
Doug Ford says he’s focused on unity after MP accuses the premier of sabotage
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Thursday, April 17, 2025.Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said today that he wants to focus on unity, refusing to shoot back at a rant from a Conservative MP calling the premier a “problem,” an opportunist and a Liberal “hype man.”
Jamil Jivani, who won Bowmanville-Oshawa North, said in an interview with CBC on election night that Ford inserted himself in the federal campaign and Conservatives should not be taking advice from him.
Ford would not take Jivani’s bait in the wake of Poilievre’s loss, saying only that all Canadians have to stand together against the real threat, which is the economic harm that will be caused by Trump’s tariffs.
“I’m focusing on unity right across this country,” Ford said when asked about Jivani’s comments.
“We have to bring this country together like we’ve never had before. Each other are not the enemies. There’s one person that’s causing a real problem, not just here (but) around the world, and that’s President Trump.”
04/29/25 13:03
Liberals sweep most of Nova Scotia
– Lindsay Jones
The Liberal Party swept most of Nova Scotia, with the Conservatives losing two seats, leaving the province with just one Tory MP, in Acadie-Annapolis, where Chris d’Entremont hung onto his seat by a slim margin – 470 votes with one poll left to report as of early Tuesday afternoon.
Late Monday night, the riding of Cumberland-Colchester, held by Conservative Stephen Ellis, switched from blue to red as final polls were tabulated, propelling Liberal Alana Hirtle to the win.
04/29/25 12:31
Liberals maintain their grip in Atlantic Canada
– The Canadian Press
With 98 per cent of the polls in Atlantic Canada reporting, the Liberals were elected or leading in 25 of 32 ridings, and the Conservatives were at seven. The New Democrats were not in contention, capturing less than five per cent of the popular vote. If those results hold when the final ballots are counted, the Liberals will end up with one more seat in the region than they won in the 2021 election.
The party has dominated the region for almost 10 years, though its grip has slightly loosened since Justin Trudeau was first elected to govern in 2015, when the Liberals won all 32 seats.
04/29/25 11:51
This election was a mixed bag for Liberals who came up in the Trudeau era
– Joe Friesen, Patrick White
Although Donald Trump was always the backdrop of Canada’s federal election, some voters saw Monday as a referendum on the more than nine years the Liberals held office under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The results were a mixed bag for Liberals tied to Mr. Trudeau’s government, with some retaining their ridings while others were ousted.
Sean Fraser responds to a question from the media after announcing he is leaving federal politics, Monday, Dec 16, 2024 in Ottawa. He came back and won his seat.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Former immigration and housing minister Sean Fraser won his Central Nova seat despite trailing in early returns. Mr. Fraser had announced he wouldn’t run in this election but changed his mind a few months later. He topped Conservative Brycen Jenkins by a margin of about 4,000 votes – 52 per cent to 43 per cent.
Anita Anand held five different portfolios under Justin Trudeau.ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP/Getty Images
Anita Anand won Oakville East, surviving a spirited challenge from former police officer Ron Chhinzer. She held five different portfolios under Mr. Trudeau, becoming one of the faces of Ottawa’s pandemic response as minister of public services and procurement. Prime Minister Mark Carney made her Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry in March.
Bryan May lost to Conservative Connie Cody.Supplied
Bryan May, who served briefly as parliamentary secretary to Mr. Trudeau, lost his Cambridge riding to Conservative Connie Cody. Mr. May also served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of national defence in 2021 before taking on the same post with the small business ministry.
Kamal Khera lost her seat to Conservative Amarjeet Gill.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Short-lived Minister of Health Kamal Khera fell to Conservative Amarjeet Gill in Brampton West. A registered nurse, Ms. Khera was sworn in as minister of health shortly after Mr. Carney became Prime Minister in March. Previously, she had been minister of diversity, inclusion and persons with disabilities, which she took on after serving as minister of seniors.
Ya’ara Saks was also unseated by her Conservative counterpart.Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press
Ya’ara Saks, a former minister of mental health and addictions, was unseated by Conservative Roman Baber in York Centre. A former MPP, Mr. Baber was kicked out of the provincial PC caucus for an open letter criticizing his government’s pandemic response that stated: “Lockdowns are deadlier than Covid.”
Sohi won about 39 per cent of the vote to his opponent’s 53 per cent.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi lost the Edmonton-Southeast riding to Conservative Jagsharan Singh Mahal. Mr. Sohi, a former bus driver, Liberal MP and cabinet minister who was elected mayor in 2021, took a leave of absence from his city job to run in this election. He won about 39 per cent of the vote to his opponent’s 53 per cent.
04/29/25 11:09
Danielle Smith says UCP will hold ‘special’ caucus meeting to discuss Alberta’s future after Liberal win
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a national conference in Ottawa on April 10, 2025.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her United Conservative Party will hold a “special caucus meeting” Friday to discuss the province’s future now that the federal government remains under Liberal control.
In a statement Tuesday, Ms. Smith congratulated Liberal Leader Mark Carney for his party’s victory in the federal election. She also thanked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for fighting for causes that align with her worldview.
A small but loud faction of conservative Albertans is pressing for the province to leave Confederation now that the Liberals have secured their fourth consecutive term. Ms. Smith, who said she would not lead the charge but is not deterring would-be separatists, on Tuesday said her fellow citizens will “no longer tolerate having our industries threatened” and resources landlocked by Ottawa.
“In the weeks and months ahead, Albertans will have an opportunity to discuss our province’s future, assess various options for strengthening and protecting our province against future hostile acts from Ottawa, and to ultimately choose a path forward,” she said in her statement.
“As Premier, I will facilitate and lead this discussion and process with the sincere hope of securing a prosperous future for our province within a united Canada that respects our province’s constitutional rights, facilitates rather than blocks the development and export of our abundant resources, and treats us as a valued and respected partner within Confederation.”
She added that she will have more to say after Friday’s special caucus meeting.
04/29/25 10:46
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04/29/25 10:37
What the Liberals’ election win means for your personal finances
– Meera Raman and Mariya Postelnyak
The Liberal Party has won the federal election, and Prime Minister Mark Carney will have his work cut out for him as Canadians face the financial impacts of the trade war and ongoing cost of living concerns.
Here’s a breakdown of the major personal finance promises – from retirement to taxes – the party made during the election campaign, and how they could impact your pocketbook.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Thursday, April 17, 2025.Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he looks forward to working with Mark Carney’s Liberals to meet a “crucial” moment for the province and for Canada.
Ford is calling on Carney to make good on promises to help tear down internal trade barriers and speed approvals for resource development projects, including in the mineral-rich Ring of Fire region in northern Ontario.
In a statement this morning, the premier also urged the new Liberal government to get infrastructure such as pipelines, highways and rail lines built to help Canadian goods and reduce reliance on the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump had a looming presence in the federal campaign and in the provincial election that re-elected Ford two months ago.
Both Carney and Ford were pulled away from their campaigns to respond to American tariff announcements.
04/29/25 09:46
Financial analysts react to the federal election results
– Reuters
Market reaction has been muted. The Canadian dollar was barely changed at 1.3830 U.S. dollar, or 72.31 U.S. cents and Canada’s 10-year government bond yield was up less than a basis point at 3.174 per cent.
Canada’s main stock index also edged higher at the open on Tuesday. At 9:31 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 0.08 per cent at 24,819.43 points.
Here are some comments from financial analysts:
ANTHONY VISANO, HEAD OF INVESTMENT RESEARCH, KINGWEST AND CO
“The uncertainty of trade still rules the day. Until we get certainty around cabinet appointments and negotiations around NAFTA 2.0, I think we’re still kind of in this uncertain period. But broadly speaking, from our perspective, we’re quite optimistic and excited about Canada’s prospects.
“There’s a Canada-first mindset, some optimism around trade, inter-country trade, the willingness to get pipelines done.”
BRIAN MADDEN, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, FIRST AVENUE INVESTMENT COUNSEL
“Carney is going to have to choose his cabinet ministers carefully. He’s going to have some people with experience running these portfolios, but he’s also going to have to have enough fresh faces to send a message to the public and to the opposition party that his agenda is different than that of his predecessor.”
STEPHEN BROWN, DEPUTY CHIEF NORTH AMERICA ECONOMIST, CAPITAL ECONOMICS
“Although the Liberals have just missed out on a majority, Prime Minister Mark Carney should still be able to implement his fiscal plans with support from the NDP or Bloc Québécois. If anything, the need to grant concessions to those parties means fiscal policy could end up even looser than the Liberals have signaled.
“That presents a modest risk to our view that the Bank of Canada will cut another three times this year, which would probably prevent the loonie and bond yields from falling by as much as we anticipate.”
SHAUN OSBORNE AND ERIC THEORET, STRATEGISTS AT SCOTIABANK
“The CAD slipped marginally in overnight trade but is trading little changed on the day now and USD-CAD risk reversal pricing shows little change in skew through the 1– ,3– and 6-month tenors, suggesting markets are not overly concerned about another minority government at this point – despite the challenges ahead for Canada.”
04/29/25 09:22
The province where a majority of flipped ridings took place
– Chen Wang
Of the 54 seats that changed hands in last night’s federal election, most of those flips took place in Ontario. The province saw 22 ridings dump their incumbent MPs, while there were 11 flips in Quebec, 10 in British Columbia, eight in the Prairies and three in Atlantic Canada.
Although the Liberals lost 18 seats to the Conservatives – 14 of them in Ontario – they made up for those losses elsewhere. In Quebec, the Liberals took nine seats from the Bloc Québécois and another nine from the Conservatives, including three in Ontario and two in Nova Scotia.
The NDP lost 15 seats overall – nine to the Conservatives and six to the Liberals, with eight of those losses in British Columbia.
Some of the flipped seats are in ridings with redrawn boundaries. To determine whether a riding flipped, The Globe and Mail looked at whether a sitting MP prior to redistribution was seeking re-election. In cases where there was no incumbent, the incumbent was considered to be the party that controlled the old riding comprising the largest percentage of the population in the new riding.
04/29/25 09:02
A snapshot of the ridings that flipped
– Greg Mercer and Chen Wang
Fifty-four ridings changed hands in Monday’s federal election. In Atlantic Canada and Quebec, the Liberals won key electoral districts, while the Conservatives knocked out incumbents in the Greater Toronto Area and Winnipeg. Here is a snapshot of five of them.
South Shore–St. Margarets (Nova Scotia)
Jessica Fancy-Landry was acclaimed the Liberal candidate in this Nova Scotia riding in January when the party was still riding low in the polls – and rode the swing in voter opinion all the way to victory over Conservative incumbent MP Rick Perkins. Mr. Perkins, who was an outspoken critic of the Liberals’ handling of the Indigenous lobster fishing dispute, had unseated fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan in 2021 to win here.
Rivière-des-Mille-Îles (Quebec)
Liberal gains in Quebec were a big story on election night, and Linda Lapointe’s victory in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles over incumbent Luc Desilets of the Bloc Québécois was part of that trend. Across the province, the Trump effect was powerful – with Bloc candidates saying voters told them they were worried about U.S. tariffs and wanted a strong Liberal delegation to stand up for Canada.
Aurora–Oak Ridges–Richmond Hill (Ontario)
Conservative candidate Costas Menegakis took this Ontario riding from the Liberals, defeating incumbent Leah Taylor Roy. Despite a late campaign stop by Liberal Leader Mark Carney, the seat was among the gains made in suburban Ontario by the Tories, who focused on “bread and butter” issues such as affordability and concerns about crime, Mr. Menegakis said.
Elmwood–Transcona (Manitoba)
Conservative Colin Reynolds won this Winnipeg-area riding, defeating incumbent MP Leila Dance as the New Democrats were sidelined in what became a two-horse race. Traditionally an NDP stronghold, Ms. Dance narrowly beat Mr. Reynolds here in a September, 2024, by-election to replace NDP MP Daniel Blaikie.
Victoria (British Columbia)
The Liberals broke the NDP’s 20-year grip on Victoria Monday night when Will Greaves defeated incumbent MP Laurel Collins. Ms. Collins told her supporters she had heard at the door that people wanted to vote NDP but felt afraid with Donald Trump in the White House. Similar stories played out across B.C., including in Burnaby Central, where NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced plans to resign after being unseated in his own riding.
04/29/25 08:50
Liberals face disappointment in Ontario as Conservatives surge in GTA ridings
Voters line up to cast their ballot at a polling station in Toronto.Wa Lone/Reuters
TheLiberal Party faced its most disappointing results in Monday night’s election in Ontario, losing ground to the Conservatives, particularly in the suburban 905 region that surrounds Toronto.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made breakthroughs in the Toronto-area ridings of the 905 area, named for its telephone area code, as well as strong showings elsewhere.
While the map still showed a large patch of Liberal red in the party’s strongholds in the Greater Toronto Area, several races in the region there were extremely tight. In some ridings, evaporating NDP support did not translate into expected Liberal wins.
In the 905, Conservative Costas Menegaskis defeated Liberal Leah Taylor Roy in Aurora–Oak Ridges–Richmond Hill, a riding the Liberals won by a razor-thin margin in 2021. The Conservatives also flipped Liberal ridings in Newmarket-Aurora and Brampton West, and Markham–Unionville, where Liberal Paul Chiang quit after a scandal over comments he made about handing a rival over to Chinese authorities.
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet speaks to supporters on election night.Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press
The Liberals made significant gains in Quebec at the expense of the Bloc Québécois on Monday.
Mr. Carney’s party was leading or elected in 43 Quebec ridings late Monday night, compared with 23 for the Bloc, 11 for the Conservatives, and one for the NDP.
The battleground suburbs and rural areas around Montreal – the so-called 450, after the local area code – seem to have been decisive for the Liberals.
The party was hoping to improve on its 35 seats won in 2021 with a red wave in Quebec. The Bloc aimed to save the furniture, and most of the party’s 32 seats from the last election, after its support plummeted.
The sovereigntist party managed better than initially feared. In the newly redrawn riding of Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj, the lawyer Alexis Deschênes defeated former Liberal cabinet minister Diane Lebouthillier, a significant pickup.
Voters have their names checked in a polling station during Canada’s federal election in Calgary, Alberta, on April 28, 2025.Ahmed Zakot/Reuters
Alberta is set to return a platoon of Conservative candidates to Ottawa in Monday’s federal election, although a handful of city ridings hosted tight races, underlining the province’s rural-urban divide.
The Conservative Party won all but three of Alberta’s 37 ridings, according to the preliminary results Monday evening. The Liberals held Edmonton Centre and picked up Calgary Centre, while the New Democratic Party won Edmonton Strathcona, which it has controlled since 2008.
Elections Canada estimated voter turnout in Alberta exceeded 63 per cent. It counted 2,064,167 votes with 96 per cent of polls reporting. As of April 25, Elections Canada estimated 3,234,505 people were registered to vote in the province.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre walks with new MP for Durham Jamil Jivani as he takes his place in the House of Commons before Question Period, April 8, 2024 in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Simmering tensions between federal Conservatives and Ontario Premier Doug Ford burst into full view on election night as Jamil Jivani, the Conservative MP for Bowmanville—Oshawa North, used his victory speech to accuse Mr. Ford of undermining the federal party’s campaign.
During a subsequent on-air interview with CBC, Mr. Jivani called Mr. Ford “a problem for Ontario and for Canada.”
“He’s taken the provincial conservative party and turned into something hollow,” he continued. “Something that is unprincipled and doesn’t solve problems. He’s gladhanding with Chrystia Freeland, having coffees and lattes with Mark Carney and I’m sitting here saying we need to be fighting for change and something new and something different, not being a hype man to the Liberal party.
During the federal campaign, Mr. Ford declined to help Pierre Poilievre and defended and an advisor who accused Mr. Poilievre’s team of committing “campaign malpractice” by blowing an almost 25-point lead heading into the election.
Mr. Jivani once worked for Mr. Ford as a special advisor and province’s first Advocate for Community Opportunities, but resigned in 2022 after criticizing the government’s pandemic policies.
“I’m speaking from experience,” he told CBC. “I tried to fix problems in this province and [Ford] kept getting in the way and all his goons around him all the time.”
04/29/25 07:49
Elections Canada pauses vote counting with Liberal majority still in question
– The Canadian Press
Elections Canada decided early Tuesday morning to pause the marathon counting of special ballots with a handful of ridings still too close to call.
A majority government would allow the Liberals to pass legislation without the support of other parties. If the final result remains a minority, the Liberals would need help to stay in power.
Special ballots are cast by mail or at Elections Canada offices by voters who are away from their ridings during the election.
The counting was to resume at 9:30 a.m. ET
04/29/25 07:36
Pierre Poilievre projected to lose his Ottawa-area riding, with two polls still to be reported
Pierre Poilievre speaks to supporters alongside his wife Anaida Poilievre after the election was declared for the Liberal Party.Amber Bracken/Reuters
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his Ottawa-area seat to Liberal challenger Bruce Fanjoy, making him the second federal leader to be rejected by voters in Monday’s election.
With 264 out of 266 polls reporting early Tuesday, Mr. Fanjoy won 50.6 per cent of the vote to Mr. Poilievre’s 46.1 per cent.
Elections Canada paused the counting of special ballots early Tuesday with a handful of ridings still too close to call, including Mr. Poilievre’s. Counting was to resume at 9:30 a.m.
Mr. Poilievre had previously won seven times in the riding of Carleton or predecessor ridings in the region. The 45-year-old won with 52 per cent of the vote in 2021 and 46 per cent in 2019.
Ballot counting in the riding was slowed by a protest against the first-past-the-post electoral system that saw 85 activists run in the riding, making the ballot 91 names long.
The NDP’s Jagmeet Singh conceded his riding in British Columbia and resigned as leader of the party.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Mark Carney and said Ukraine deeply valued stressed Canada’s support “from military, financial, and humanitarian assistance to imposing sanctions against Russia.”
“We are confident that our partnership will only grow stronger in our shared pursuit of peace, justice, and security,” Mr. Zelensky added.
04/29/25 07:26
French President Emmanuel Macron congratulates Carney
– Paul Waldie
French President Emmanuel Macron referenced Mark Carney’s “elbows up” rallying cry in a congratulatory post on social media. “France is glad to further strengthen the friendship which unites our two countries,” Mr. Macron said in a post on X. “I’m looking forward to working with you — “elbow to elbow!”
04/29/25 07:21
World leaders congratulate Carney
– Paul Waldie
World leaders have congratulated Mark Carney on leading the Liberals to victory on Monday with some signaling that it marks the start of a stronger relationship with Canada in the face of growing unease with U.S. President Donald Trump.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said “the bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.”
“I look forward to working closely together, both bilaterally and within the G7. We’ll defend our shared democratic values, promote multilateralism, and champion free and fair trade,” she added on Tuesday.
In his congratulatory message, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer noted the connections between Mr. Carney and the UK, stemming from the Canadian Prime Minister’s time as Governor of the Bank of England.
“With your leadership, and personal ties to the UK, I know the relationship between our two countries will continue to grow,” Mr. Starmer said in a statement. “We will work together to deepen our economic relationship to deliver security for hardworking people in the UK and Canada – which we were both elected to do.”
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh addresses supporters at his campaign headquarters on election night, in Burnaby, B.C., Monday, April 28, 2025.Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
Jagmeet Singh announced Monday night he will step down as NDP leader after a disappointing result that saw a major decline in the party’s seat count.
He said he will resign as soon as an interim leader can be named after he failed to win his seat in the Burnaby Central riding.
Mr. Singh choked up several times as he thanked his family, his caucus and his staff.
“Almost eight years ago I was elected the leader of this incredible party, this incredible movement. I worked really hard to be worthy of this trust, to live up to the legacy of our movement,” he said. “I’ll be stepping down as leader.”
The New Democratic Party was poised to return to Ottawa with a much smaller team. Earlier in the night, NDP national director Anne McGrath said she was still hopeful the party would outperform polling predictions.
As of press time, the NDP were leading in eight ridings, a disappointing result after winning 25 seats in the 2021 election. The party needs 12 seats to maintain official party status.
The party had garnered just over 5 per cent of the popular vote nationally, a sharp decline from the 17.8-per-cent share of the national vote that the party received in 2021.
“Obviously I’m disappointed that we could not win more seats, but I’m not disappointed in our movement. I’m hopeful for our party,” Mr. Singh told supporters.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to supporters on election night in Ottawa, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris YoungChris Young/The Canadian Press
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered his party’s best showing in over a decade but failed to form government in an election that saw his party pick up new seats across the country –even as, early into Tuesday morning, his own seat remained a question mark.
With 250 of 266 polls reporting as of 2:45 Tuesday morning, the Liberals were tracking towards capturing the riding of Carleton, which Mr. Poilievre has held since 2004.
It was a result that came even as he expanded his party’s base of support in Monday’s vote into the Greater Toronto Area, Lower Mainland and parts of the Atlantic, holding the Liberals to a minority government.
He did not acknowledge his personal political prospects early Tuesday morning as he sought to frame the election results overall in a positive light: the Conservatives won more seats than last time, more votes than last time, denied the Liberals a majority and held the NDP at bay too.
“We know that change is needed but change is hard to come by,” he said early Tuesday morning.
“It takes time. It takes work and that’s why we have to learn the lessons of tonight so that we can have an even better result the next time.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives to address supporters at his campaign headquarters on election night in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
In his speech to supporters at TD Place Arena in Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney said early Tuesday morning that America is interested in Canada’s land, resources, water and the country.
He said the country is now over what he called the “American betrayal.” The days and months ahead will be challenging and will call for some sacrifices, he said, but added that workers and businesses will be supported.
Mr. Carney said his government will build one economy for the country, not 13. (There are a total of 10 provinces and three territories).
The Liberal government is committed to free trade within the country by Canada Day, he said. “This is Canada, and we decide what happens here.”
The country must take steps such as to strengthen relationships with reliable partners in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, he added.
He said that when he sits down with U.S. President Trump, “it will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations.”
Mr. Carney said he intends to govern for all Canadians after what he called a “most consequential election.”
“Let’s put an end to the division and anger of the past,” Mr. Carney said. “We are all Canadian and my government will work for and with everyone.”
The 60-year-old said that over his long career, he has made many mistakes and he will make more. “But I commit to admitting them openly, to correcting them quickly, and always learning from them.”
04/29/25 04:19
Liberals return to power with fourth consecutive mandate
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Liberal Party election night headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario on April 29, 2025.Carlos Osorio/Reuters
Mark Carney, the former central banker who sought elected office for the first time, led the Liberals to a minority-government victory Monday in an election that was upended by Donald Trump’s trade war and musings about annexation amid persistent concerns over the spiralling cost of living.
Canadians gave the Liberal Party its fourth mandate since 2015 but the race against the Conservatives was much tighter than polls predicted. At 4:15 a.m., the Liberals were leading or elected in 168 ridings and the Conservatives in 144. The Bloc Québécois had 23 seats, the New Democrats were at seven and the Greens at one.
The Liberals had a slim lead in the popular vote at 43.2 per cent to the Conservatives’ 41.7.
Likein2019 and 2021, the Liberals will need to govern with the support of one of the opposition parties, which brings continued instability, with the threat of defeat hanging over the government.
Still, the win is a remarkable achievement for Mr. Carney, a political rookie who promised to stand up to the U.S. President and change Canada’s economic direction. He easily won his Ottawa-area riding of Nepean.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals retained power in the federal election on Monday (April 28), but fell short of the majority government he had wanted to help him negotiate tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump. Ryan Chang reports.
Supporters of Jagmeet Singh’s New Democratic Party watch results on television at a reception in Burnaby, B.C.Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail
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Supporters at Mark Carney’s election night party in Ottawa celebrate.Fred/The Globe and Mail
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Supporters react at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s election night event in Ottawa.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
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Supporters of Mark Carney react to results.Blair Gable/Reuters
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Supporters react as they watch results at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s election night event in Ottawa.Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press
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Supporters hold flags in support of Bloc Québécois at election night headquarters in Montreal.Mathieu Belanger/Reuters
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Sandy Duperval prepares to DJ at the Liberal Party’s election night gathering at TD Place in Ottawa.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
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A supporter at the Conservative Party election night event at Rogers Centre in Ottawa.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney take in the results on election night in Ottawa.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh sits with his wife Gurkiran Kaur and their daughters Dani Kaur, left, and Anhad Kaur while watching election results on television, in Burnaby, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
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Monitors display election poll results and other information in the control room for CBC’s election night coverage in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
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A worker prepares for Liberal Party election night event in Ottawa.Matt Mills McKnight/Reuters
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Voters line up at a polling location at the Collingwood Neighbourhood House in Vancouver.Lindsey Wasson/The Associated Press
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s supporters at an election night event at Rogers Centre in Ottawa.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
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Poll workers and electors are photographed at the Firefighters Banquet and Conference Centre in Burnaby, B.C.Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail
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A voter enters a polling station to cast a ballots in the federal election in Calgary.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
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An Elections Canada employee holds used voter cards.IAN WILLMS/The New York Times News Service
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Special ballot officers count ballots sent in from around the world and Canada to be counted in the federal election on Monday in Ottawa.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
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Earle Reid, the first voter in Dildo, Newfoundland.Greg Locke/Reuters
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Crews prepare ahead of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre election night event in Ottawa.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
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A polling station in Ottawa.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
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A polling station at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images
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A polling station in Ndilo, a Yellowknives Dene First Nation community near Yellowknife.PAT KANE/The New York Times News Service
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Voters arrive at a polling station in Halifax.Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press
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Voters line up in Toronto.Wa Lone/Reuters
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A worker sets up a sign in front of a polling station in Calgary.Ahmed Zakot/Reuters
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Elections Canada staff assist voters in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
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People line up to vote in Montreal.ALEXIS AUBIN/AFP/Getty Images
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife Anaida Poilievre cast their votes in Ottawa.ADRIAN WYLD/AFP/Getty Images
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney casts his vote in the Ottawa riding of Nepean.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh cheers at a campaign event with Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo and volunteers in Port Moody, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
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Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet votes in Chambly, Quebec.Graham Hughes/Reuters
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04/28/25 23:59
Liberals take clear lead in Quebec, as Bloc hopes to claim balance of power
People line up to vote outside a polling place on federal election day in Montreal, Canada on April 28, 2025.ALEXIS AUBIN/AFP/Getty Images
As of 11:25 p.m., the Liberals were leading or elected in 41 Quebec ridings compared with 25 for the Bloc Québécois, and had a roughly eight-point lead in the popular vote. The Conservatives were leading or elected in 11 ridings, and the NDP was elected in one. The Bloc is looking to retain enough ridings to claim the balance of power.
At the Bloc’s Montreal watch party, there was little reaction when the TV networks declared a Liberal government. People in the room continued to cheer on Bloc candidates who were in tight races as they appeared on screens.
By 11 p.m., Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, Canadian Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault and Employment Minister Steven MacKinnon had been re-elected. Former minister Jean-Yves Duclos had also been re-elected in his Quebec City riding.
The Liberals were leading or elected in several ridings around the Island of Montreal, including the riding of La Prairie—Atateken, held by Bloc House leader Alain Therrien. The suburban ridings around Montreal are traditionally friendly to the Bloc, and political observers see it as a bellwether region.
Elections Canada says problems some voters experienced with its main website on Monday for several hours after the first polls closed are not related to a security incident.
“We continue to deal with a technical issue and are investigating the exact cause. We can confirm this is not a security incident,” Elections Canada spokesperson Diane Benson said in a statement just after 11 p.m. ET. “In the interim, we are using our contingency website, which was designed for such situations.”
She said that the agency became aware of issues around 7 p.m. ET, and at 9:15 p.m., a contingency measure was put in place to allow voters to access the main website. However, she said, the online Voter Information Service remained unavailable.
“We are actively working on resolving the issue,” she said. “We informed electors on our social media platforms how to find [their] assigned polling station.”
Voters arrive to a polling station, on election day in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada May 29, 2023.AMBER BRACKEN/Reuters
Alberta is set to return a platoon of Conservative candidates to Ottawa in Monday’s federal election, although tight races are expected in a handful of city ridings, underlining the province’s rural-urban divide.
The Conservative Party was on track to win most of Alberta’s 37 ridings, including seats in Edmonton and Calgary. The Tories won 30 of the 34 seats in 2021, with the Liberals and New Democratic Party each picking up two ridings.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith put the question of Alberta sovereignty on the ballot this spring when she declared that Canada would face an “unprecedented national unity crisis” if the next prime minister did not acquiesce to a list of her demands related to energy policy within six months. It was a shot at Liberal Leader Mark Carney and brought the idea of Alberta separatism to the forefront.
Opinion: What does it mean that two party leaders are trailing in their ridings?
It’s early yet, let me emphasize, but two of the three main party leaders are currently trailing in their ridings: Pierre Poilievre is behind Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy in Carleton (which had a very, shall we say, well-populated ballot). And in Burnaby Central, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is currently trailing both the Conservative and Liberal candidates. Again, this is very early in the count (if it’s getting late in the night), so things will change. But how and by what margin?
04/28/25 23:45
Quebec NDP Ruth Ellen Brosseau fails to overtake Bloc incumbent
A campaign sign for NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau is shown in Louiseville, Que., on Sunday, October 6th, 2019.Kayle Neis/The Globe and Mail
Former NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau, the face of the 2011 “Orange Wave,” failed in her attempt at a political comeback, with Bloc incumbent Yves Perron winning his seat. Ms. Brousseau was seeking to win Berthier—Maskinongé, a riding that she lost in 2019 and again in 2021.
04/28/25 23:35
Former cabinet minister Sean Fraser re-elected in Nova Scotia riding
– Globe staff
Former Liberal housing minister Sean Fraser has won the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova, beating his Conservative challenger Brycen Jenkins. Mr. Fraser had initially announced he would not run again in December, but reversed his decision about three months after he told Canadians he wanted to spend more time with his family. He was among a number of Liberals who had planned to step aside as the party saw its polling fortunes plummet.
04/28/25 23:30
Projected Carney win evokes Paul Martin’s 2004 Liberal victory
Former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin at the Liberal Party Leadership 2006 convention at the Palais des Congres in Montreal, 02 December 2006.STRINGER/Getty Images
Looking at how the results stand right now, my mind is going back to the 2004 election. In that vote, new Liberal leader Paul Martin won 135 seats, which was 20 shy of a majority. The NDP won 19 seats, one short of holding the balance of power. Drama filled Parliament for the next 18 months as Mr. Martin tried to survive confidence votes. Eventually, the government fell at the end of 2005, and the Conservatives won in early 2006.
04/28/25 23:20
Early election results show Liberal-Tory split in Ontario
People walk to a polling station for Canada’s federal election, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 28, 2025.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
As preliminary results started populating election maps Monday night, Ontario was awash in blue and red, with not a speck of orange to be seen.
Liberals under Mark Carney are projected to form government, though it is still unclear whether that will be a minority or a majority.
As of just after 11 p.m., the Liberals were leading or elected in about 65 seats in the province, and the Conservatives were leading and elected in 56 seats.
Green Party incumbent Mike Morrice was in a close race with the Conservative candidate to keep his seat in Kitchener Centre.
During the 2021 election, the NDP won five seats, but the party was not ahead in any of those ridings Monday night, including the stronghold of Hamilton Centre.
04/28/25 23:15
Liberals retake Toronto-St. Paul’s
– Laura Stone
The Liberals have regained the riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s, which the party lost in June in what was widely seen as a repudiation of former leader Justin Trudeau.
Liberal Leslie Church, a former top staffer to Chrystia Freeland in Mr. Trudeau’s government, won the riding back from Conservative Don Stewart.
The riding was a Liberal stalwart for decades but turned Tory blue in a by-election this summer.
04/28/25 23:00
Mark Carney to install new cabinet, recall Parliament early to cut taxes and open U.S. trade talks
Liberal Leader Mark Carney leaves a polling station after casting his ballot in the federal election in Ottawa on Monday, April 28, 2025.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
Mark Carney is expected to name a new cabinet within two weeks of his election victory and recall Parliament soon after.
A senior Liberal official told The Globe and Mail that by Canada Day, the new government plans to bring in a new budget that includes a promised middle-class tax cut and legislation to remove federal impediments to interprovincial trade.
The Globe is not identifying the official who was not authorized to discuss the Carney government’s plans.
Mr. Carney, who was projected to win his Ottawa-area riding, has promised to initiate immediate new trade and security negotiations with the Trump administration as Canada braces for tariffs on autos and auto parts that are expected to take effect on May 3.
He also intends to put a new face on the cabinet that will stand out from that of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, the official said. The cabinet will be no larger than 30 people, smaller than Mr. Trudeau’s 37, the official said. Mr. Carney unveiled a 24-member cabinet when he became prime minister on March 14.
Former Speaker of the House of Commons Greg Fergus appears as a witness at a House of Commons standing committee on procedure and house affairs on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 28, 2024.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Liberal Greg Fergus has been re-elected in Hull—Aylmer, a Quebec riding across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill. Mr. Fergus was Speaker of the House before the election, and the first Black parliamentarian to serve in that role. He was first elected as an MP in 2015.
04/28/25 22:51
PPC Leader Maxime Bernier loses his Quebec race
– Laura Stone
Maxime Bernier has lost – again.
The leader of the People’s Party of Canada, who split with the Conservatives in 2018, lost the Quebec riding of Beauce to Conservative Jason Groleau.
Mr. Bernier, who held Beauce for more than a decade until 2019, finished a distant fourth in Monday’s contest, according to preliminary results.
The People’s Party was seen as a challenger to the Conservatives in the past two elections, but with Pierre Poilievre taking over the Tory leadership in 2022, Mr. Bernier has struggled to retain relevance within the conservative movement.
Including two by-elections, the 2025 result is his fifth straight loss since leaving the Conservative Party.
04/28/25 22:51
Mark Carney to remain Prime Minister
– Robert Fife, Steven Chase
Mark Carney, the former central banker who was seeking elected office for the first time, is set to lead the Liberals to victory in an election that was upended by Donald Trump’s trade war and musings about annexation amid persistent concerns about spiralling cost-of-living.
The Liberals were in a two-party race in Atlantic Canada as polls closed in much of the country. The Liberals were ahead with about 25 seats, even as the Conservatives performed strongly.
The vote is a remarkable turnaround from only three months ago, when Pierre Poilievre’s populist Conservatives were poised to win a massive majority owing in large part to voter fatigue with Justin Trudeau’s minority government.
Mr. Carney’s ascension as Liberal Leader and the U.S. President’s tariffs and 51st state threats led to a Liberal resurgence that loomed over the 37-day campaign, turning the contest into a two-way race with the Conservatives.
04/28/25 22:49
Conservatives on pace to grow seat count
– Chris Hannay
Although the Conservatives are not projected to win the most seats tonight, they are on track to do better than they have in the past two elections.
The Conservatives won 121 seats in 2019 under leader Andrew Scheer and 119 seats in 2021 under leader Erin O’Toole. The party, under leader Pierre Poilievre, is currently leading or elected in at least 130 seats. The party also currently has close to 40 per cent of the popular vote, the best they’ve done since 2011. Unfortunately, in this election, it may not be enough.
04/28/25 22:37
Bloc’s Plamondon, an MP since 1984 and long-time Dean of the House, wins another term
– Chris Hannay
Louis Plamondon has been re-elected in Bécancour–Nicolet–Saurel–Alnôbak, a riding across the St. Lawrence River from Trois-Rivières. Mr. Plamondon is the Dean of the House and has been a member of Parliament continuously since 1984. He was elected as a Progressive Conservative in 1984 and 1988, then broke away to help form the Bloc Québécois. He’s been elected as a Bloc MP ever since. He is 81.
As Dean of the House, Mr. Plamondon has a ceremonial role in the first days of a new Parliament to preside over the election of officials such as the Speaker of the House. He’s been the Dean since 2008. He was also interim speaker for a week in 2023.
04/28/25 22:28
Liberals flip seat in Nova Scotia where Conservative beat former cabinet minister in 2021
– Lindsay Jones
In a significant flip in Nova Scotia, South Shore–St. Margarets Liberal candidate Jessica Fancy-Landry beat out incumbent Conservative Rick Perkins, who defeated former fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan in 2021.
Another Nova Scotia riding to watch as the evening unfolds is Central Nova, where Conservative candidate Brycen Jenkins and Liberal incumbent Sean Fraser, who came out of retirement at the request of Liberal Leader Mark Carney, are still duking it out.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney gestures next to parliamentary candidate Sean Fraser during his visit to a book store in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, on March 25, 2025.Blair Gable/Reuters
04/28/25 22:25
Bloc unseats former Liberal cabinet minister
– Chris Hannay
The Bloc Québécois’ Alexis Deschênes has won in Gaspésie–Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine–Listuguj, unseating long-time Liberal incumbent Diane Lebouthillier. Ms. Lebouthillier had represented the riding since 2015 and was minister of national revenue – a.k.a minister of the Canada Revenue Agency – for most of Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister. She was moved to the fisheries portfolio toward the end of his tenure, and she was not selected by Mark Carney for his cabinet.
04/28/25 22:25
– Marsha Lederman
The polls have now closed in B.C. and Yukon (but if you’re in line to vote, stay in line!). Many of us out here on the West Coast have become accustomed to having an election called shortly thereafter – and here we are, yet again. A Liberal government.
But there’s still a lot to be determined – and it may come down to results from British Columbia. We matter! Also uncertain: just how badly the NDP will do. It is very much a two-party race tonight and things are looking very rough for the New Democrats.
Mark Carney, now projected to remain Prime Minister in a fourth Liberal government, speaks in Saanichton, B.C. earlier on Election Day,Carlos Osorio/Reuters
The Liberals are projected to form the next government – but it’s still unclear whether it will be minority or a majority.
That means Mark Carney will become prime minister, but he may need to work with another party to get legislation passed if he does not win a plurality of seats in the Commons.
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-François Blanchet speaks during a federal election campaign stop at a Bombardier facility in Dorval, Que., Thursday, April 24, 2025.Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press
Opinion: Bloc could play role as kingmaker in next government
While it is dangerous to draw any conclusions or make any assumptions this early in the evening with so many votes still to come in, it’s not premature to imagine something like a Liberal minority government.
(It’s harder to imagine a Conservative minority government because it’s difficult to conceive of either the Bloc or the NDP propping the Tories up.)
This leads to a potential scenario in which Yves-François Blanchet – who recently called Canada an “artificial country” with “very little meaning” – ends up playing the role of kingmaker. Only in Canada.
Voters line up at a polling location at the Collingwood Neighbourhood House in Vancouver, British Columbia, Monday, April 28, 2025.Lindsey Wasson/The Associated Press
Polls across Canada have all now closed, with British Columbia and Yukon being the last to wrap up at 7 p.m. local time.
There are 43 seats up for grabs in B.C. and several are expected to be battlegrounds, including NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s Burnaby riding. Yukon has a single riding to be determined this evening.
04/28/25 21:57
Conservatives pick up two seats in Newfoundland and Labrador
– Lindsay Jones
Results for Newfoundland and Labrador showed the Conservatives picking up two seats.
In the riding of Long Range Mountains, Conservative candidate Carol Anstey, a real estate agent who contested the seat in the last federal election, flipped it from Liberal to Conservative.
In the riding of Terra Nova–The Peninsulas, Conservative candidate Jonathan Rowe was declared the winner.
Conservative incumbent Clifford Small has held onto his seat in Central Newfoundland, while Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson has also won back the riding of St. John’s East.
04/28/25 21:55
Incumbent Liberal Sean Fraser locked in tight battle for Nova Scotia riding
Just shy of 9:30 p.m. ET, Mr. Fraser was trailing Conservative candidate Brycen Jenkins by roughly 450 votes.PATRICK DOYLE/The Canadian Press
Sean Fraser, a stalwart cabinet minister in the Trudeau government, is locked in a tight battle for re-election in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova. Just shy of 9:30 p.m. ET, Mr. Fraser was trailing Conservative candidate Brycen Jenkins by roughly 450 votes, in what is effectively a two-party race.
Mr. Fraser served as cabinet minister in two areas – immigration and housing – where the Liberals were criticized in recent years for their policy decisions. He initially wasn’t going to run for re-election, citing his desire to spend more time with his family, but was lured back by Liberal Leader Mark Carney.
04/28/25 21:50
Conservatives expected to dominate in Alberta as polls close in Prairies
A voter enters a polling station to cast a ballots in the federal election in Calgary, Monday, April 28, 2025.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
Polling stations in Alberta are now closed. There are 37 seats at stake in the province, up from 34 the last go-around. The Conservatives are expected to dominate Alberta again, but the Liberals could gain ground in the province’s two largest cities, Calgary and Edmonton.
In 2021, the Conservatives won all but four ridings in Alberta. The Liberals and New Democratic Party picked up two ridings each. But this election could be different.
Here are some ridings to watch as results trickle in: Calgary Centre, Calgary Confederation, Calgary Skyview, Edmonton Gateway, Edmonton Griesbach and Edmonton Southeast.
04/28/25 21:45
Liberal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc re-elected; ‘hopeful’ for majority
– Laura Stone
Liberal Dominic LeBlanc, re-elected in New Brunswick in the riding he’s held since 2000, says he’s hoping for a Liberal majority government, but acknowledged it is “fair” to say the party was expecting better initial results in Atlantic Canada.
Speaking to CBC’s Rosemary Barton shortly after 9 p.m. ET, Mr. LeBlanc said there are a lot of votes yet to be counted and that the slower results are linked to heavy turnouts in both advance polls and on election day. Initial results showed the Liberals elected in 22 ridings and the Tories in 10 – meaning the Conservatives picked up seats in a region the Liberals had hoped to sweep.
“I think that we should still be very confident in Mr. Carney’s campaign, and I’m confident that there’s going to be a Liberal government. It could be a majority government, but we’ll see as we get into the heavy numbers in Ontario, Quebec and provinces like British Columbia,” Mr. LeBlanc said.
At 9:05 p.m. ET, the Elections Canada main website was back up and running, though the agency said not everything had been restored.
The agency has a note at the top of the webpage stating that it is having technical difficulties, and as a result some of the online services and tools are unavailable.
“We are aware of the issue and are working hard to fix it,” the note reads. “We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Elections Canada’s results page is also accessible here.
A man holds a Canadian flag attached to a hockey stick during a rally for national pride outside the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada April 6, 2025.Ed White/Reuters
Opinion: The question is – will it be different this time?
Regardless of who wins this election, one thing is clear: Canada cannot continue as it has.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development forecasts Canada’s long-term GDP per capita growth last among 38 advanced economies. Many people are struggling, and food-bank lineups are long and visible. Eighteen per cent of people in those food-bank lines have jobs. And first-time homebuyers are typically moving past middle age, almost 40 years old, according to RBC Economics. For decades, average real incomes flatlined while inflation chewed away at Canadian living standards.
Party platforms released during the campaign have failed to meet the magnitude of reform needed to reverse Canada’s economic decline.
Encouraging competition, improving productivity and living standards is not a mystery. It’s been done before.
So, will the new government rise to the challenge? Our prosperity depends on it. Read the full column here.
04/28/25 21:05
Incoming results in Atlantic Canada not far off from 2021 election
– Chris Hannay
Results in Atlantic Canada are showing a close race. So far, 12 seats have been called for the Liberals and five for the Conservatives – not far off from the results in 2021. The Conservatives have picked up one seat so far, and it looks like they could possibly pick up another one or maybe two. Three of the Liberals elected are Leader Mark Carney’s cabinet ministers — Joanne Thompson was elected in St. John’s East, Kody Blois was elected in Kings-Hants and Dominic LeBlanc was elected in Beauséjour. But there’s neither a big red wave nor a blue one. These are surprisingly good results for incumbents so far, given how tumultuous politics has been in recent months.
04/28/25 21:00
How many seats for a majority government, and what happens if no party reaches it?
– Chris Hannay
If no party wins a majority of seats tonight – that is, at least 172 – we get to revisit the rules for a minority government. We’ve been here many times before: 2021, 2019, 2008, 2006 and 2004, just to name a few. In all those cases, the party that won the most seats went on to form government. The party in power survived confidence votes by aligning with another party on either a case-by-case basis (under Stephen Harper, and in Justin Trudeau’s first minority term), or through a formal agreement (the Liberal-NDP pact signed in 2022).
But the actual convention is that the incumbent party in power should get a first crack at forming government. This becomes relevant if, say, two parties win almost an equal number of seats. That hasn’t been an issue federally in generations. But it has mattered on a provincial level. For example, in the 2017 B.C. election, Christy Clark’s Liberals won 43 seats, one shy of a majority. Her government was toppled by John Horgan’s NDP, which had won 41 seats, but was backed up by three Green MLAs.
04/28/25 20:55
Elections Canada website experiencing difficulties, but cause unknown
– Emily Haws
Elections Canada has confirmed that some voters were experiencing difficulties accessing the agency’s website.
In a statement, the Elections Canada media-relations team said it was informed about the issue at 7 p.m. ET.
“We are currently investigating the issue,” the agency said. “We informed electors on our social media platforms how to find their assigned polling station.”
Voters can find their polling location by checking their voter information card, contacting their local Elections Canada office, or calling the national phone line at 1-800-463-6868, it said.
The statement did not offer a timeline for when the website is expected to be back up and running. The site’s results tracker — and specific riding information — is still operational.
Supporters for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre file in during the Conservative Party election night event at Rogers Centre Ottawa on April 28, 2025 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images
At Conservative HQ, a sense of eagerness and anticipation
At the Conservatives’ party, there are only a couple hundred people in the room so far, but you can feel the eagerness as the early results creep in. You know that thing when you’re bowling and you wave your arms from the end of the lane to try to psychically direct the ball where you want it to go? The energy is like that.
The big projection screens here keep switching between television networks, and each time a network reports a specific seat leaning or definitively going Tory, a cheer goes up. A bigger roar went up at 8:13 p.m., when CBC showed the seat count on the East Coast tied at 13 apiece for the Conservatives and Liberals, and a brief chant of “bring it home” started up.
There’s a lot of wobbling in the standings at the moment because the results coming in are so preliminary and the counting seems to be going slowly out east. Still lots of time left to wave the bowling ball around.
04/28/25 20:40
Conservatives pick up a seat from Liberals in Newfoundland and Labrador
– Chris Hannay
Calls are starting to come in for seats in Newfoundland and Labrador. As of 8:20 p.m., two were called for the Liberals and two for the Conservatives. One of those Conservative wins – Long Range Mountains – is a pickup from the Liberals, while Central Newfoundland was the one Conservative win in 2021. In both ridings, the Conservatives won far more votes than last election.
04/28/25 20:35
The view from the Liberals’ election-night event in Ottawa
The stage is prepared for the election night event for Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Liberal Party leader, at TD Place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Monday, April 28, 2025.COLE BURSTON/The New York Times News Service
Hello, I’m Bill Curry, The Globe’s deputy Ottawa bureau chief. I’ve been on the road covering both Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre during the campaign. Tonight, I’m in Ottawa at the Liberal Party’s campaign headquarters at TD Place Arena with Globe political columnist Campbell Clark.
There is a large stage with a big screen showing election results. The feed alternates between the English CBC and the French Radio-Canada broadcasts. There are three large Canadian flags and Mr. Carney’s campaign slogan, Canada Strong, is prominent. Several television networks are set up with the stage as their background. As of 8:20 p.m., it’s mostly media in the space.
04/28/25 20:30
– Globe Staff
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04/28/25 20:25
Conservatives hold battleground riding of Central Newfoundland
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Conservative incumbent Clifford Small held on to his seat in Central Newfoundland, defeating Liberal Lynette Powell and NDP candidate Darian Vincent. Mr. Small narrowly defeated the Liberals in 2021 by less than one percentage point in this riding, which was then named Coast of Bays–Central–Notre Dame. He was the only Conservative MP elected in the province between 2015 and 2025. He sat on the fisheries committee in the last Parliament.
04/28/25 20:15
First results come in Atlantic Canada
– The Canadian Press
The polls have closed in Atlantic Canada, where Liberal candidates are hoping that their party’s lead in the latest national opinion surveys will be reflected at the ballot boxes.
East Coast voters were expected to deliver a stay-the-course message to the governing Liberals, who have dominated the region since 2015 when the party won all 32 seats under Justin Trudeau.
But the Liberals’ grip on power slipped over the years under Mr. Trudeau’s leadership, and by the time his replacement, Mark Carney, called the election last month, the party had dipped to 23 seats, the Tories had risen to eight, and one seat – a Halifax riding previously held by a Liberal – was vacant.
The Conservatives – led by Pierre Poilievre – were expected to hold on to some, if not all of their seats in the region, while the New Democrats under Jagmeet Singh were hoping for a surprise breakthrough in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia.
04/28/25 20:10
Ontario’s 905 region to tell the story of the election, strategist says
– Laura Stone
Conservative strategist Kory Teneycke, who has been critical of the Poilievre campaign, said Monday that the story of the election will be told in the 905 – referring to the suburbs in the Greater Toronto Area.
Mr. Teneycke, campaign manager for Ontario Premier Doug Ford, told CTV News that the Conservative Party did not address the Trump threat early enough in the campaign. “My experience, having just come through an election in Ontario, is that was the issue that was driving voters and I think that’s what we’ve seen play out in this campaign,” Mr. Teneycke told CTV.
He said Pierre Poilievre’s campaign has moved in recent days to address the Trump issue – saying the Conservative Leader had a strong social-media post Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex Canada – and that he predicts a close race, particularly in the 905.
“What happens in that 905 belt is going to be pretty important,” he said.
04/28/25 20:05
Trade war the top issue for older voters, but an afterthought for younger Canadians
Steel workers work at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ont., on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
In a recent story from my colleague Nojoud Al Mallees, there was a set of polling numbers that really stood out: The trade war is the top issue for voters 55 and older, but a relative afterthought for the younger crowd. It felt as if the campaign was hijacked by U.S. President Donald Trump and the very real threat of economic devastation from tariffs, obscuring other concerns.
And for young people, the mounting cost of living – particularly for homes – is a huge concern. Royal Bank of Canada said in a March report that affordability is “exceptionally stretched,” despite falling interest rates. And even with a recent slump in the real estate market, the national benchmark home price is around $700,000 – an increase of nearly $200,000 in six years. The next federal government will need to show how seriously it’s taking the housing crisis, even as the trade war sucks up all the oxygen in the room.
04/28/25 20:00
Elections Canada website goes down
– Emily Haws
Elections Canada’s website has gone down, about 40 minutes after polls closed in Newfoundland. The organization provides polling station information and voting requirements for voters. The site’s results tracker — and specific riding information — is still operational.
For voters unable to access the site, the agency says they can find their polling location by checking their voter information card, by phoning their local Elections Canada office, or by calling the national line at 1-800-463-6868.
04/28/25 19:50
Canada’s new and redrawn ridings, explained
– Kobe Tulloch
Canada has five new ridings in this federal election, for a total of 343. The districts were added in 2022, required by the 10-year census and the Canada Elections Act. They’re meant to reflect the growing population in Canada. Three of the new seats are in Alberta, with one in British Columbia and one in Ontario. Most ridings were redrawn, as populations have shifted around the country and grown at different rates. Toronto lost one of the Ontario ridings completely in the redrawing process, dropping from 25 districts to 24.
Crews work to prepare the Canada Hall at Rogers Centre Ottawa, Monday, April 28, 2025.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
The view from the Conservatives’ Ottawa election-night event
Senior political reporter Stephanie Levitz and I are at the Conservatives’ election-night event at the Rogers Centre. This is the default big-event venue in downtown Ottawa, which means it’s the same room where the Liberals had their Christmas party the day after Chrystia Freeland resigned in rather spectacular fashion, and where the Liberal leadership announcement took place less than two months ago. There are lots of political ghosts in this airplane hangar perched next to the Rideau Canal.
The room is very much in ready-and-waiting mode at the moment, with journalists all in place, and the public is just starting to trickle in. The giant Canada flag hanging beside the stage has been steamed, the bars at the centre of the room are set up but not yet open, and they just turned on the huge TVs displaying live results as the very first returns trickle in from Newfoundland.
04/28/25 19:25
Were the polls wrong? We’ll find out soon
– Laura Stone
Much has been made about the polls this campaign, and whether they’ve been able to truly capture what’s happening on the ground.
Many polls have put the Liberals in majority territory, with senior Grits musing privately about taking upward of 190 seats. The Tories believe they can outperform the polls, according to former Alberta premier Jason Kenney, who told CBC News Monday evening that the party hopes to draw on the “shy Tory” phenomenon, meaning that some people may not divulge their support publicly.
The NDP are trying to find solace in Ontario’s recent election campaign, which saw the provincial party trailing in third place leading up to election day. But the Ontario NDP had a more efficient vote than the second-place Liberals and were returned to Official Opposition status. We’ll see what happens this evening and whether the polls were right – or wrong.
Elections Canada signs show the direction to the polling station, on the day of the election, in Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada, April 28, 2025.Greg Locke/Reuters
The first ballots will begin being counted in just a few minutes, as polls close in Newfoundland. Results will continue to come in as voting ends across the country, with the last polls closing in BC at 10:00 p.m. ET. You can follow our riding-by-riding map as preliminary results come in.
It is unclear how long it might take before final counts are delivered. Elections Canada received more than one million special ballots this election, which take much longer to tally than those cast at polling stations on election day.
A spokesperson from Elections Canada said their “rule of thumb is that a team of two counters can handle about 500 special ballots over the course of election night.” That could require more than 2,000 teams of counters across the country dedicated to special ballots alone.
Elections Canada says they are taking measures to provide results in a timely manner.
04/28/25 18:25
– Gary Mason
Why I’m keeping an eye on the NDP results tonight
Hi, I’m Gary Mason, The Globe’s national-affairs columnist based in Vancouver. This is shaping up to be one of the more interesting federal elections that I’ve covered or commented on in quite some time.
If the Liberals win, it will mark one of the most remarkable political turnarounds in Canadian history – maybe the most remarkable. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
One of the things I’m going to be on the lookout for is the performance of the NDP. The last time the party took less than 10 per cent of the popular vote was 25 years ago. But the party has been on a downward trajectory since its high-water mark of 103 seats, achieved in the 2011 “Orange Wave” election under leader Jack Layton. Between then and the last election, the party has seen its vote count drop by more than 1.5 million.
04/28/25 17:45
Elections Canada warns voters to watch for election day misinformation
Voters cast their ballots at a polling place in the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal in Montreal, on Monday, April 28, 2025.NASUNA STUART-ULIN/The New York Times News Service
Elections Canada is warning voters to disregard false information being shared on social media that says voting in the federal election was being delayed for people 60 and older.
An account on the X platform that is labelled “parody” posted an image of a fake Journal de Montréal story saying in French that people 60 and older would vote on Tuesday to avoid long lines.
Elections Canada published a message on its social-media accounts saying that people shouldn’t believe everything they see.
“Today is your last chance to vote at your assigned polling station,” the message says.
04/28/25 17:30
Trade war may cause recession in Canada, but U.S. businesses are suffering as well
– Matt Lundy
As Canada’s next prime minister deals with the trade war with the United States, it’s worth keeping in mind that the Trump administration’s tariffs are deeply unpopular with American business leaders – offering some hope of a resolution or concessions.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published a survey today of Texas business executives, many of whom panned U.S. trade policies. “A lack of a plan and the arbitrary nature of the tariffs are killing business,” one unnamed executive said. “Tariff uncertainty and the timeline have created significant chaos,” another said.
So, yes, the trade war could send Canada into a recession. But the fallout won’t be one-sided, and the U.S. will be tested over how much pain it can endure.
04/28/25 17:10
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Voters wait in line at a polling station in Ottawa Centre on the day of the federal election in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 28, 2025.Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
Romy Andre was intent on voting today in his riding of Ottawa Centre, but had left his ID behind at his parents’ place in Orleans, in the east end of the city. He did, however, have a pair of purple rabbit ears, which he wore because, he said, they felt right.
As he left the polling station at a downtown Ottawa church, Mr. Andre, 24, said he has a lot on his plate. “I literally have two jobs and work six days a week so I guess I am kind of busy,” he said.
Along Elgin Street in the heart of the national capital, traffic seemed light on election day-afternoon.
Ottawa Centre covers the city’s downtown, including the Parliament Buildings. Its previous MPs have included onetime federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent and former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna. The incumbent MP is Liberal Yasir Naqvi, formerly Ontario’s attorney-general.
Mr. Andre said he could blame the system for not being able to vote. But, he added, “I kind of want to blame myself to be honest.”
Asked why he was intent on voting, he said, “The person I would never vote for? I’m kind of scared that they win.”
It was a more productive day for John Banys.
“It wasn’t very busy,” said Mr. Banys, 77, who was using a walker. He said the situation was complicated for him because he is visually impaired.
“It’s a good time right now to vote. Canada is going to go through a lot, and it’s going to have to have some leadership,” he said.
04/28/25 15:50
Next PM can bank on lower interest rates
– Matt Lundy
Here’s something Canada’s next prime minister can (almost certainly) bank on: lower interest rates.
The consensus on Bay Street and among investors is that the Bank of Canada will lower its policy interest rate – now at 2.75 per cent – several more times this year. The swaps market, which captures investor expectations of monetary policy, suggests the rate will fall to 2 per cent by December.
That would bring relief to many consumers and businesses. But this rosy scenario is tempered by the wide-ranging effects of the trade war, which will constrain economic growth and push up prices, a phenomenon known as stagflation. And as the Bank of Canada has said many times, it has a limited number of tools to counter the fallout from steep U.S. tariffs.
04/28/25 15:44
The stakes in Ontario battleground ridings
– Laura Stone
Hi, I’m Laura Stone, a Queen’s Park reporter for The Globe and Mail.
I usually report on provincial politics, but I dabble in federal politics, too. (I’m also one of those rare ones who actually hails from Ottawa!)
Tonight I’ll be helping with our election coverage from The Globe’s headquarters in Toronto.
In particular, I’ll be watching Battleground Ontario, where both the Liberals and Tories are vying for seats in the Greater Toronto Area.
We’ve seen an extraordinary intervention throughout the campaign from those close to Ontario Premier Doug Ford – and even the Premier himself. Kory Teneycke, a Conservative strategist who managed Mr. Ford’s three back-to-back majority-winning campaigns, has criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s electoral strategy as “campaign malpractice.” And Mr. Ford has made no secret of his lack of a relationship with the federal leader.
It will be fascinating to see what happens tonight to the Conservative movement if Mr. Poilievre, who once led by more than 20 points in the polls, fails to lead his party to victory.
John Diefenbaker speaking at Ukrainian Concert, Massey Hall in Toronto, January 26, 1964.James Lewcun/The Globe and Mail
If the election results line up with polling, the Conservatives and Liberals will take more than 80 per cent of the vote between them. This is actually quite unusual. There hasn’t been a federal election where the top two parties took that much of the vote since 1958, when John Diefenbaker led the Progressive Conservatives to a historic majority: 54 per cent of the popular vote and 208 (of 265) seats.
Since the 1993 election – which saw big wins for the Bloc Quebecois and Reform parties – Canada has routinely seen four or five parties each win more than 10 per cent of the vote. Not this time.
Polls suggest the Liberals and Conservatives are each hovering around 40-per-cent. That’s usually enough to win big in an election (see Stephen Harper in 2011 or Justin Trudeau in 2015). But for whichever party comes in second, it won’t be enough.
04/28/25 15:01
Whoever wins inherits a shaky economy
– Matt Lundy
Hi, I’m Matt Lundy, The Globe’s economics editor. Whoever wins this election will be taking the reins of an economy on shaky ground, a theme that was highlighted in the Bank of Canada’s quarterly market participants survey, published today. The median estimate from about 30 individuals – a mix of senior economists and strategists involved in Canadian financial markets – is that Canada’s gross domestic product will expand 1 per cent this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.8 per cent. A sizable portion of analysts (22 per cent) actually expect GDP to decline, implying a recession this year. The survey was conducted between March 13 and 20, coinciding with the early days of the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum. Since then, the trade war has escalated.
04/28/25 14:57
After move from U.S., Toronto voter casts ballot with eye to political divide
– Dave McGinn
As little as six months ago, Gabriel Seamon was living in Philadelphia. Now, he’s afraid of returning to the U.S. any time soon.
Those fears were very much on the 26-year-old’s mind as he cast his ballot in a high school gymnasium in Toronto’s west end Monday.
“With what’s happened in the United States lately, and how drastically things have changed so fast, it’s more obvious to me than ever that it, like, matters more,” Mr. Seamon, who works in film and television, said of voting.
He worries that the political divisiveness he sees in the U.S. will spread to Canada if a certain federal leader wins the election, although he wouldn’t say who. If any of the other leaders win, he thinks Canada will be fine. Not perfect, but fine.
“Sometimes it’s more of, like, not wanting the worst than looking for something that’s, like, ideal,” he said.
04/28/25 14:38
On the ground in Vancouver where the mood is solemn after a horrific weekend
A woman lays flowers on Monday, April 28, 2025 at an impromptu memorial near the scene of the fatal vehicle ramming attack over the weekend that killed 11 people at a Filipino street festival in Vancouver. The school that hosted the weekend festival is also a polling station in Monday’s Canadian federal election.Jesse Winter/The Globe and Mail
Hello, I’m Marsha Lederman, a columnist in Vancouver. It is a very solemn day here after the horrific events of the weekend. But people have been voting since 7 a.m. (I just cast my own ballot), and I look forward to weighing in tonight on the results and any other election news.
One thing I want to say at this point is that whatever the results, they may lead to the end of some political careers. No matter what you think of their policies or approaches, people who go into politics generally have the greater good in mind. This is not an easy career or aspiration. So to everyone running in this election: Thank you!
04/28/25 13:56
Elizabeth May casts her ballot in Sidney, B.C.
– The Canadian Press
Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May cast her ballot in Sidney, B.C. She has represented the riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011.
04/28/25 13:52
New Brunswick is a bellwether this election
– Chris Hannay
Hi, I’m Chris Hannay, reporting from The Globe and Mail’s headquarters in Toronto.
Normally I write about the business of health care, but tonight I’m putting on my old politics hat. I worked in The Globe’s Ottawa bureau for seven years, and you can take the man out of Ottawa, but you can’t take Ottawa out of the man — or something like that.
I’ll be reporting on the election results as they come out. Before we start seeing vote counts, I’ll share some political history and statistics to help put the results in context.
The first results tonight will come from Atlantic Canada and will give us an early look at which way the wind is blowing. In 2015, the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau swept the whole region on the way to winning a majority government. In 2019 and 2021, they lost ground, particularly in rural regions, and had to settle for a minority government.
I’ll be looking at New Brunswick in particular as a bellwether. The Conservatives made major inroads and won four seats in 2021 in that province. If they do well there again, it could mean a happy night for the party.
04/28/25 13:46
On the ground in Toronto where one voter cites Trump and housing as reasons to vote
Voters line up to cast their ballot at a polling station during Canada’s federal election in Toronto on Monday.Wa Lone/Reuters
Hi, I’m Dave McGinn, a reporter for The Globe and Mail. I am in Toronto today talking to people who are casting a ballot.
It took Gillian Bevan just a few minutes to do so at a polling station in the city’s west end at lunchtime Monday.
“It’s important that everyone has a say, especially with everyone on the U.S. right now,” said the 27-year-old actuary.
The threat to Canada’s sovereignty raised by U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of turning Canada into the 51st state is one reason Ms. Bevan was determined to vote today.
Housing affordability is also top of mind for her.
“Being a young person in Toronto, I’m feeling like I might never afford a house,” she said.
04/28/25 13:25
Singh meets with staff and supporters in Port Moody, B.C.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to volunteers during a sign waving campaign event with Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo, front left, on election day, in Port Moody, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stopped to talk to campaign staff and volunteers in Port Moody, B.C. alongside NDP incumbent candidate Bonita Zarrillo earlier this morning. The assembled group of a couple dozen people held up NDP signs to attract the eye of drivers on their morning commute.
Mr. Singh talked about the importance of knocking on doors ahead of polls closing to try and get as many voters out as possible.
The NDP leader continued with his campaign message that things like dental care and pharmacare only happened because people chose to send New Democrats to Ottawa.
Mr. Singh is the incumbent candidate in Burnaby Central, which was formally known as Burnaby South before the boundaries were redrawn in the regular Elections Canada boundary review.
Mr. Singh and his wife, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, cast their ballots in early voting in Burnaby, B.C., on April 18.
04/28/25 13:18
The Globe spent this election travelling the country, in search of the Canadian public mood
Canadian military veteran Hamilton White, left, and his wife Andrea Boyd-White of Antigonish county, NS, finish up lunch at the Fleur-de-Lis diner in Port Hawkesbury, NS, on March 13, 2025.Steve Wadden/The Globe and Mail
Postcards are for clichés: the CN Tower, Lake Louise, a Maritime lighthouse. They’re pretty, and don’t tell you much.
In the past month, The Globe has set out to write a different kind of Canadian postcard, visiting cities and towns in sometimes-overlooked corners of the country and producing dispatches that show the place in the round, its underbelly as well as its pretty face.
We’re in a time of national soul-searching, prompted by annexation threats and a federal election, and this series has been a part of that process. Reporters based in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax all hit the road, sometimes returning to their home towns, sometimes visiting places they had never been before.
Earle Reid, the first voter at the polling station on the day of the election, in Dildo, Newfoundland.Greg Locke/Reuters
Voters in Canada’s four Atlantic provinces are expected to deliver a stay-the-course message to the country’s governing Liberals today as voting gets underway on the East Coast.
The party has dominated the region since 2015 when it won all 32 seats, but its grip on power slipped over the years under Justin Trudeau’s leadership.
When Liberal Leader Mark Carney called the election last month, his party held 23 seats, the Conservatives had eight, and one seat — a Halifax riding previously held by a Liberal — was vacant.
The latest polls were suggesting strong support for Liberals across the Atlantic region, but the Conservatives — led by Pierre Poilievre — were expected to hold on to some of their seats, while the New Democrats under Jagmeet Singh could be shut out again.
Pundits say Poilievre’s aggressive, populist style of leadership has been a tough sell in Atlantic Canada, where traditional Progressive Conservatives — including Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston — have largely shunned the federal Tory leader, who visited Nova Scotia only once during the campaign.
Meanwhile, Carney’s focus on dealing with the economic chaos unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump has paid dividends for the Liberals, whose approval ratings were higher in Atlantic Canada than in any other region.
04/28/25 11:59
Voters in Windsor, Ont., redirected after fire at polling station
– The Canadian Press
Voters are being redirected to a new location to cast their ballots in Windsor, Ont., after a fire closed down a recreation centre that was serving as a federal election polling station.
The Windsor fire department says crews responded to a fire on the roof of the WFCU Centre on Monday morning and everyone inside was evacuated.
The fire service says Elections Canada has moved the polling station to St. Joseph’s Catholic High School nearby.
It says the fire was under control as of 11 a.m., and a fire investigator will go to the WFCU Centre to look into the cause of the blaze.
Elections Canada was still listing the centre as a voting location in Monday’s federal election just before noon.
The elections agency did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet votes on federal election day in the riding of Beloeil-Chambly, Que.GRAHAM HUGHES/AFP/Getty Images
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet cast a ballot in Beloeil, Que. before meeting with reporters.
Mr. Blanchet says he’s not so much nervous as he is impatient for the results to start coming in later today and to see if the party meets its objectives for this election – which he wouldn’t divulge. His party went into the campaign with 33 seats.
Unlike his opponents, Mr. Blanchet has not taken to describing the federal election as being the “most consequential” and says it’s an important election like any other and should not be taken lightly.
A car enters the parking lot at a polling place on federal election day in Ottawa, Canada on Monday.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images
Burnaby Central, B.C.
The result here could help show whether the NDP have a future. Burnaby Central is a new riding, replacing Burnaby South. This was held by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Polls suggest Mr. Singh, who is the NDP candidate, is running third in the new riding as left-leaning voters coalesce behind the Liberals.
Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, Ont.
Key to any victory is the Golden Horseshoe, a riding-rich crescent that sits on Lake Ontario and includes Toronto as well as other cities. The Conservatives held Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill from 2018 to 2021. If they are to take advantage of unhappiness over living costs, immigration and a housing crisis – factors that dominated politics before U.S. President Donald Trump began threatening tariffs and annexation – the riding is a key target.
Trois-Rivieres, Que.
Any party wishing to win power must also perform well in Quebec, which has the second-largest number of seats in the House of Commons. It is the only province with its own party, Bloc Québécois, which is seeking independence for the province and whose fortunes can swing wildly. Trois-Rivieres is one of several in Quebec where three (and sometimes four parties) contend for the vote. The 2021 result was tight, with the Bloc winning by just 83 votes of the 58,110 that were cast.
Edmonton Southeast, Alta.
The Liberals have traditionally fared poorly in the western oil-producing province of Alberta, thanks to former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who introduced unpopular energy policies in the 1980s. Some of this enmity rubbed off on his son, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who at best only won a handful of Alberta seats. Now that Justin Trudeau is gone, the Liberals have a chance to repair their reputation. Ex-Liberal cabinet minister Amarjeet Sohi is running in the new riding of Edmonton Southeast, and if he wins, it will be a sign the party can succeed even in hostile territory.
Cumberland-Colchester, N.S.
The four provinces in Atlantic Canada, which contain a total of 32 seats and report their results first, often offer an early indication as to how the election might go. The region is politically volatile and results can swing broadly. The Liberals won Cumberland-Colchester by a few hundred votes in 2019 but lost it to the Conservatives in 2021.
Burlington, Ont.
This Ontario riding southwest of Toronto is the ultimate in Canadian bellwethers, having elected a legislator from the winning party for 12 consecutive elections going back to 1984.
04/28/25 11:24
Elections Canada says it’s managing long ballot with 90 candidates challenging Poilievre
– The Canadian Press
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is being challenged by 90 other candidates on the ballot.
Poilievre is in a tight race against Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, who has been waging an intense ground battle in the riding. But a protest group called the Longest Ballot Committee has convinced dozens of other candidates to register to run as Independents in Poilievre’s Ottawa-Carleton riding, in addition to the usual main party candidates.
The protest group opposes the first-past-the-post voting system and is seeking to build support for electoral reform.
Elections Canada says it has measures in place to help people vote in the Ontario riding. For example, the ballot for the Carleton electoral district is larger and has two columns with candidate names, which are listed alphabetically.
A large-print list of candidates will also be available and a braille template has been modified to fit the two-column ballot.
To maintain the integrity and security of the ballot, the agency says poll workers will be trained in a new method of folding the large ballot “so as to maintain the secrecy of the vote.”
It also says the “unusual form and size” of the ballot requires that experienced election officers be assigned to polling stations.
04/28/25 11:08
Poilievre casts his ballot at a polling station in Ottawa area
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife Anaida Poilievre make their way to cast their votes in the federal election on Monday in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre cast his ballot alongside his wife, Anaida Poilievre, at a polling station in Ottawa.
He remarked, “look at the size of the ballot” when he walked up to the voting booth. Mr. Poilievre’s riding of Carleton was targeted by a protest group filling the slate up with independent candidates to inflate the physical size of ballots and delay the count.
As he placed his ballot in the box, Mr. Poilievre told the gathered cameras: “Alright everyone, get out to vote — for a change,” echoing his slogan from the campaign.
04/28/25 11:04
From taxes to housing, here’s what each major party is promising for your finances
Election Personal Finance Platform Tracker 2025Photo illustration The globe and mail. Source images Getty Images/Getty Images
As Canadian voters head to the polls, many are thinking about how their personal finances are being affected by affordability challenges in recent years and now a global trade war.
From taxes to housing, here’s what you need to know about each party’s platform and where they stand on the issues that affect Canadians’ pocketbooks the most.
Poilievre, Carney, Singh respond to Trump comments
– Globe staff
After U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about Canada’s election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responded on X, writing, “President Trump, stay out of our election. The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box.
“Canada will always be proud, sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be the 51st state,” wrote Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on X.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney also posted a video on X shortly afterward that didn’t directly mention Mr. Trump but stated: “This is Canada — and we decide what happens here.”
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh responded on X to Mr. Trump’s comments. “He doesn’t choose our future. We do,” he wrote. “Every New Democrat you send to Ottawa will stand up for our country.”
04/28/25 10:12
The system created to help homeless Canadians vote
Scott Rodger had housing in Quebec when he voted in the last federal election, but now, in Ottawa, he doesn’t. Nor does he have ID that meet Elections Canada’s requirements.Spencer Colby/The Globe and Mail
Elections Canada says it has been tackling the issue of homeless voters. “Some people face greater barriers than others when it comes to participating in elections,” Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault said in a statement. “It’s important for us to understand what those barriers are and work to reduce them.”
Homeless people who want to vote have several options. They need to present two pieces of ID, one of which can be a letter provided by an establishment that provides food, housing or social services. If they have neither, they can come to the polling station with someone who can vouch for them.
George Cicken has been staying with his mother in Vancouver since losing his home in Haida Gwaii in early 2024.
“It was a bit of a hassle getting registered but not too bad,” he said. “I got a bill with my name on it and my mother’s address, as well as an ID that I had from Haida Gwaii.”
Mr. Cicken noted the narrow margin of victory in B.C.’s provincial election last fall, saying it proved that every vote counts.
Polling stations are now open across the country as voters in British Columbia and Yukon join other Canadians heading to the polls.
04/28/25 09:47
TSX opens higher as Canada heads to polls
– Reuters
Canada’s main stock index opened higher on Monday, as investors prepared for the outcome of the general election in the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
At 9:31 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 0.16 per cent at 24,751.01 points.
04/28/25 09:32
How Indigenous groups have been working to get the vote out ahead of the federal election
– Willow Fiddler
Indigenous groups across Canada are trying through campaigns to encourage First Nations residents to cast ballots in order to have a say on issues that directly affect them. The Assembly of First Nations has also worked with Elections Canada to compile several resources for communities to assist voters, including materials in 13 Indigenous languages.
The remoteness of many Indigenous communities is a challenge to getting out the vote and it can be more difficult to hire and train election staff in these areas. But although other barriers Indigenous voters commonly face, such as proving identities and addresses, have improved since 2015 according to Elections Canada, the population is still less likely to turn out than non- Indigenous voters.
Kent McDonald hopes he will be able to vote on Monday after experiencing significant barriers in the 2021 federal election that led him to not cast a ballot.
The math and science teacher living on Little Red River Cree Nation, a semiremote Northern Alberta reserve about 800 kilometres north of Edmonton comprised of three communities, said he had planned to vote during his break at school where a polling station was supposed to be set up.
“We got to school that day and found out that no one had talked to the school about setting up a polling station there,” Mr. McDonald told The Globe and Mail.
Instead, he and members of his community of Fox Lake would have had to travel to a neighbouring community 40 kilometres away, a trip he said would involve driving through 15-centimetre mud ruts and with two-hour wait times each way for the barge that could only take two cars at a time.
Elections Canada has been working to remedy some of the problems from 2021 in Little Red River ahead of Monday’s vote, said Leanne Nyirfa, the agency’s regional media adviser for Alberta. She said the agency has been working with the Fox Lake band for several months and confirmed a polling station will be set up at the Jean-Baptiste Sewepagaham High School, where Mr. McDonald works.
Polls are now open in a majority of provinces and territories.
Voters in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Northwest Territories and Nunavut can cast their ballots for the next 12 hours.
04/28/25 09:14
Trump weighs in on election day
– The Canadian Press
U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on Canada’s election today, repeating his claim that Canada should become a U.S. state.
Mr. Trump’s tariffs and repeated threats of annexation have become a central issue ahead of today’s vote.
The president posted on his Truth Social platform that Canada could become a 51st state without “an artificially drawn line from many years ago.”
Mr. Trump says Canadians should “elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the U.S. administration will work with the new leadership of Canada.
He said there are areas for cooperation but that Mr. Trump is not happy with trade.
The president posted on his Truth Social platform that Canada could become a 51st state without “an artificially drawn line from many years ago.”
04/28/25 09:07
East to West: What matters to rural Canada in this election
It’s impossible to get a full picture of a country as big and diverse as Canada, but audio journalist Kasia Mychajlowycz set out on a road trip to ask as many people as she could: What’s the most important issue to you in this election campaign and why?
The answers ranged from affordability to health care, trust in government, reconciliation, tariffs and more. But in more than 35 interviews in a dozen places over seven provinces, people went beyond politics, retelling the joys, challenges and tragedies that make up all our lives.
From left to right: Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and co-leader of the Green Party Elizabeth May.The Canadian Press
Here’s where the leaders of Canada’s main political parties are on Election Day.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney
Mr. Carney will spend election night in Ottawa. He is expected to vote in the city on election day and will host an election night party that’s expected to begin at 9:30 p.m.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
No public events scheduled.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
Mr. Singh is scheduled to spend the day in British Columbia. He is expected to hold a campaign event at 8 a.m. in Port Moody, and will later travel to Burnaby to attend a Day of Mourning event. At 7 p.m., Singh will attend his election night event in Burnaby.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet
Mr. Blanchet is expected to spend the morning travelling around Quebec where he will meet with local candidates. He is expected to vote in Chambly, Que., around 10 a.m. Later, he is set to travel to Montreal where his party will hold an election night event at a hotel starting at 7 p.m.
Green Party Co-Leaders Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault
Ms. May is expected to spend election day in B.C., where she will cast her ballot and spend the day with local supporters. She will host her election night watch party in Victoria, which is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Mr. Pedneault will spend the day in his Montreal riding and will host an election party in Montreal starting at 8 p.m.
04/28/25 08:18
Mail-in votes are matching their pandemic peak, but snap election puts international voters on tight deadline
A eligible voter holds a voter information card after it arrived in the mail in a Carleton Place, Ont., Friday, April 11, 2025.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Leonard Belsher is his 87-year-old mother’s primary caregiver. When the federal election was called on short notice, they had already made travel plans for election day. Worried about his mother waiting in long lines at advance polls, which ended up seeing a record-breaking 7.3 million voters, he inquired about voting by mail.
Mr. Belsher, of Shawville, Que., is one of many Canadians who opted for a mail-in ballot.
Elections Canada has received 1,007,569 special ballots from voters thus far and says the tally is quickly approaching the record 1.17 million ballots received in the 2021 federal election. There are still 248,000 ballots yet to be returned, so it’s possible this election will break the pandemic high.
But the short election cycle that has more Canadians voting by mail may also be leaving the ballots of Canadians living abroad in danger of going uncounted.
A record-breaking 101,694 voting kits have been sent out to Canadians living abroad in this election, nearly double the 55,000 that were sent out in both 2019 and 2021. About 20,000 of those new international voters currently reside in the U.S.
As of Saturday, only one-third of the issued international ballots have been returned to Elections Canada – thousands fewer than were received in the previous two elections.
If the federal election were being fought in a domestic vacuum, without the casual threats of annexation and economic obliteration spewing from the White House, it would still be one for the ages.
Canada’s economy has experienced a historic bout of weak productivity and grappled with the fallout from record levels of immigration. And one must go back decades to find a housing market this unaffordable.
But, of course, this isn’t just an election battle about how to fix Canada’s homegrown challenges. U.S. President Donald Trump has fractured the global economic order and sewn unprecedented uncertainty, while his tariffs on many imports from Canada threaten investment and jobs in profound ways.
Rarely have the economic stakes been so high in a federal election.
From housing to energy, jobs, trade, productivity and Canada’s fiscal health, here are the ways Canada’s main parties are promising to safeguard the economy – and why those promises may be difficult to keep.
Futures for Canada’s main stock index were marginally lower Monday, with investors staying on the sidelines as the country heads into a federal election against the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
June futures on the S&P/TSX index were down 0.13 per cent at 6.30 a.m. ET.
Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar weakened against its U.S. counterpart.
The day range on the loonie was 71.97 US cents to 72.20 US cents in early trading. The Canadian dollar was up about 3.7 per cent against the greenback over the past month.
The U.S. dollar index, which weighs the greenback against a group of currencies, rose 0.13 per cent to 99.60.
A voting kiosk is flown across the river from Dawson City to West Dawson by helicopter so scientists working at the Eureka Weather station in the high Arctic can vote in the federal election.Gabriela Sgaga/Supplied
For the handful of scientists at the Eureka weather station in the High Arctic, voting is not a matter of trotting along to the local polling station.
Located at the top of the world, on the remote and rugged Ellesmere Island, even aircraft have trouble reaching the tiny weather base where temperatures can edge as low as -50.
So it took a military operation – with planning by three branches of the federal government and the help of a skilled Air Force pilot – to get ballots to seven Arctic weather forecasters in time for polling day.
Last week, at 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday, a Hercules military transport plane landed at the small gravel airstrip at the isolated weather station. It was only 13 below – balmy conditions for the High Arctic – and the researchers rushed out of their living quarters to collect their ballots.
They had been transported in a special sealed box, provided by Elections Canada, in a joint operation planned with precision with the federal Environment Department, which runs the weather station, and the Department of National Defence.
Election Platform guide 2025Source images The Canadian Press, Reuters, Getty Images/Custom
We compiled a comparative list for the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Bloc Québécois, Greens and the People’s Party. Here’s what you need to know about each party’s platform and where they stand on the issues that affect Canadians the most.
A sign directing people to a hall to cast their ballot at a polling station during early voting for Canada’s federal election in Montreal on April 20, 2025.Graham Hughes/Reuters
Canadians 18 and older are eligible to vote at the polling station in their riding. You can find your riding and the address of your polling station on the Elections Canada website by entering your postal code.
To vote, you can either bring photo ID or two pieces of ID – at least one with your current address. A list of acceptable forms of ID can be found here. (If you have received your voter registration card in the mail, bring that along with you.)
If you don’t have ID with you, you may declare your identity and address in writing and have someone who knows you and is assigned to your polling station vouch for you.
04/27/25 21:40
Party leaders offer condolences after deadly Vancouver festival incident
– Stephanie Levitz
Vancouver’s interim police chief is shown speaking after Saturday night’s deadly incident at the Lapu Lapu Festival, on Apr. 27, 2025.
The Globe and Mail
A pall was cast over the final day of the federal election campaign as party leaders adjusted their schedules in response to a deadly attack in Vancouver that left at least 11 people dead and many more injured.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh were at times openly emotional as they expressed horror and sadness over the attack at the Filipino community’s Lapu Lapu Festival late Saturday night.
All recalibrated the timing and tone of their final events the day before Canadians head to the polls to elect a new government.
Mr. Singh was at the festival hours before the attack occurred, and broke into tears as he told reporters Sunday morning that he couldn’t get the images of the joyful children he’d seen there out of his head.
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A worker prepares for Liberal Party election night event in Ottawa.Matt Mills McKnight/Reuters
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Voters line up at a polling location at the Collingwood Neighbourhood House in Vancouver.Lindsey Wasson/The Associated Press
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s supporters line up for the Conservative election night event at Rogers Centre in Ottawa.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
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An Elections Canada employee holds used voter cards.IAN WILLMS/The New York Times News Service
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Special ballot officers count ballots sent in from around the world and Canada to be counted in the federal election on Monday.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
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Earle Reid, the first voter in Dildo, Newfoundland.Greg Locke/Reuters
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People line up outside a polling station to vote in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
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Crews prepare ahead of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre election night event in Ottawa.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
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A polling station in Ottawa.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
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A polling station at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images
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A polling station in Ndilo, a Yellowknives Dene First Nation community near Yellowknife.PAT KANE/The New York Times News Service
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Voters arrive at a polling station in Halifax.Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press
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Voters line up in Toronto.Wa Lone/Reuters
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A worker sets up a sign in front of a polling station in Calgary.Ahmed Zakot/Reuters
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Elections Canada staff assist voters in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
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People line up to vote at St. Giles Presbyterian Church in Ottawa.Shannon Vanraes/Reuters
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People enter a polling place on election day in Ottawa.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images
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Lawn signs for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his Liberal rival Bruce Fanjoy in the riding of Carleton in Ottawa.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images
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Voters lining up on election day in Ottawa.DAVE CHAN/AFP/Getty Images
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People line up to vote in Montreal.ALEXIS AUBIN/AFP/Getty Images
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife Anaida Poilievre cast their votes in Ottawa.ADRIAN WYLD/AFP/Getty Images
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney casts his vote in the Ottawa riding of Nepean.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh cheers at a campaign event with Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo and volunteers in Port Moody, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
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Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet votes in Chambly, Quebec.Graham Hughes/Reuters
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04/28/25 20:00
Elections Canada website goes down
– The Canadian Press
Elections Canada’s website has gone down, about 40 minutes after polls closed. The Canadian Press has contacted the agency.
04/28/25 19:50
Canada’s new and redrawn ridings, explained
– Kobe Tulloch
Canada has five new ridings in this federal election, for a total of 343. The districts were added in 2022, required by the 10-year census and the Canada Elections Act. They’re meant to reflect the growing population in Canada. Three of the new seats are in Alberta, with one in British Columbia and one in Ontario. Most ridings were redrawn, as populations have shifted around the country and grown at different rates. Toronto lost one of the Ontario ridings completely in the redrawing process, dropping from 25 districts to 24.
Crews work to prepare the Canada Hall at Rogers Centre Ottawa, Monday, April 28, 2025.
Photo by Ashley Fraser, Globe and MailAshley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
The view from the Conservatives’ Ottawa election-night event
Senior political reporter Stephanie Levitz and I are at the Conservatives’ election-night event at the Rogers Centre. This is the default big-event venue in downtown Ottawa, which means it’s the same room where the Liberals had their Christmas party the day after Chrystia Freeland resigned in rather spectacular fashion, and where the Liberal leadership announcement took place less than two months ago. There are lots of political ghosts in this airplane hangar perched next to the Rideau Canal.
The room is very much in ready-and-waiting mode at the moment, with journalists all in place, and the public is just starting to trickle in. The giant Canada flag hanging beside the stage has been steamed, the bars at the centre of the room are set up but not yet open, and they just turned on the huge TVs displaying live results as the very first returns trickle in from Newfoundland.
04/28/25 19:25
Were the polls wrong? We’ll find out soon
– Laura Stone
Much has been made about the polls this campaign, and whether they’ve been able to truly capture what’s happening on the ground.
Many polls have put the Liberals in majority territory, with senior Grits musing privately about taking upward of 190 seats. The Tories believe they can outperform the polls, according to former Alberta premier Jason Kenney, who told CBC News Monday evening that the party hopes to draw on the “shy Tory” phenomenon, meaning that some people may not divulge their support publicly.
The NDP are trying to find solace in Ontario’s recent election campaign, which saw the provincial party trailing in third place leading up to election day. But the Ontario NDP had a more efficient vote than the second-place Liberals and were returned to Official Opposition status. We’ll see what happens this evening and whether the polls were right – or wrong.
Elections Canada signs show the direction to the polling station, on the day of the election, in Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada, April 28, 2025.Greg Locke/Reuters
The first ballots will begin being counted in just a few minutes, as polls close in Newfoundland. Results will continue to come in as voting ends across the country, with the last polls closing in BC at 10:00 p.m. ET. You can follow our riding-by-riding map as preliminary results come in.
It is unclear how long it might take before final counts are delivered. Elections Canada received more than one million special ballots this election, which take much longer to tally than those cast at polling stations on election day.
A spokesperson from Elections Canada said their “rule of thumb is that a team of two counters can handle about 500 special ballots over the course of election night.” That could require more than 2,000 teams of counters across the country dedicated to special ballots alone.
Elections Canada says they are taking measures to provide results in a timely manner.
04/28/25 18:25
– Gary Mason
Why I’m keeping an eye on the NDP results tonight
Hi, I’m Gary Mason, The Globe’s national-affairs columnist based in Vancouver. This is shaping up to be one of the more interesting federal elections that I’ve covered or commented on in quite some time.
If the Liberals win, it will mark one of the most remarkable political turnarounds in Canadian history – maybe the most remarkable. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
One of the things I’m going to be on the lookout for is the performance of the NDP. The last time the party took less than 10 per cent of the popular vote was 25 years ago. But the party has been on a downward trajectory since its high-water mark of 103 seats, achieved in the 2011 “Orange Wave” election under leader Jack Layton. Between then and the last election, the party has seen its vote count drop by more than 1.5 million.
04/28/25 17:45
Elections Canada warns voters to watch for election day misinformation
Voters cast their ballots at a polling place in the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal in Montreal, on Monday, April 28, 2025.NASUNA STUART-ULIN/The New York Times News Service
Elections Canada is warning voters to disregard false information being shared on social media that says voting in the federal election was being delayed for people 60 and older.
An account on the X platform that is labelled “parody” posted an image of a fake Journal de Montréal story saying in French that people 60 and older would vote on Tuesday to avoid long lines.
Elections Canada published a message on its social-media accounts saying that people shouldn’t believe everything they see.
“Today is your last chance to vote at your assigned polling station,” the message says.
04/28/25 17:30
Trade war may cause recession in Canada, but U.S. businesses are suffering as well
– Matt Lundy
As Canada’s next prime minister deals with the trade war with the United States, it’s worth keeping in mind that the Trump administration’s tariffs are deeply unpopular with American business leaders – offering some hope of a resolution or concessions.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published a survey today of Texas business executives, many of whom panned U.S. trade policies. “A lack of a plan and the arbitrary nature of the tariffs are killing business,” one unnamed executive said. “Tariff uncertainty and the timeline have created significant chaos,” another said.
So, yes, the trade war could send Canada into a recession. But the fallout won’t be one-sided, and the U.S. will be tested over how much pain it can endure.
04/28/25 17:10
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Voters wait in line at a polling station in Ottawa Centre on the day of the federal election in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 28, 2025.Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
Romy Andre was intent on voting today in his riding of Ottawa Centre, but had left his ID behind at his parents’ place in Orleans, in the east end of the city. He did, however, have a pair of purple rabbit ears, which he wore because, he said, they felt right.
As he left the polling station at a downtown Ottawa church, Mr. Andre, 24, said he has a lot on his plate. “I literally have two jobs and work six days a week so I guess I am kind of busy,” he said.
Along Elgin Street in the heart of the national capital, traffic seemed light on election day-afternoon.
Ottawa Centre covers the city’s downtown, including the Parliament Buildings. Its previous MPs have included onetime federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent and former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna. The incumbent MP is Liberal Yasir Naqvi, formerly Ontario’s attorney-general.
Mr. Andre said he could blame the system for not being able to vote. But, he added, “I kind of want to blame myself to be honest.”
Asked why he was intent on voting, he said, “The person I would never vote for? I’m kind of scared that they win.”
It was a more productive day for John Banys.
“It wasn’t very busy,” said Mr. Banys, 77, who was using a walker. He said the situation was complicated for him because he is visually impaired.
“It’s a good time right now to vote. Canada is going to go through a lot, and it’s going to have to have some leadership,” he said.
04/28/25 15:50
Next PM can bank on lower interest rates
– Matt Lundy
Here’s something Canada’s next prime minister can (almost certainly) bank on: lower interest rates.
The consensus on Bay Street and among investors is that the Bank of Canada will lower its policy interest rate – now at 2.75 per cent – several more times this year. The swaps market, which captures investor expectations of monetary policy, suggests the rate will fall to 2 per cent by December.
That would bring relief to many consumers and businesses. But this rosy scenario is tempered by the wide-ranging effects of the trade war, which will constrain economic growth and push up prices, a phenomenon known as stagflation. And as the Bank of Canada has said many times, it has a limited number of tools to counter the fallout from steep U.S. tariffs.
04/28/25 15:44
The stakes in Ontario battleground ridings
– Laura Stone
Hi, I’m Laura Stone, a Queen’s Park reporter for The Globe and Mail.
I usually report on provincial politics, but I dabble in federal politics, too. (I’m also one of those rare ones who actually hails from Ottawa!)
Tonight I’ll be helping with our election coverage from The Globe’s headquarters in Toronto.
In particular, I’ll be watching Battleground Ontario, where both the Liberals and Tories are vying for seats in the Greater Toronto Area.
We’ve seen an extraordinary intervention throughout the campaign from those close to Ontario Premier Doug Ford – and even the Premier himself. Kory Teneycke, a Conservative strategist who managed Mr. Ford’s three back-to-back majority-winning campaigns, has criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s electoral strategy as “campaign malpractice.” And Mr. Ford has made no secret of his lack of a relationship with the federal leader.
It will be fascinating to see what happens tonight to the Conservative movement if Mr. Poilievre, who once led by more than 20 points in the polls, fails to lead his party to victory.
John Diefenbaker speaking at Ukrainian Concert, Massey Hall in Toronto, January 26, 1964.James Lewcun/The Globe and Mail
If the election results line up with polling, the Conservatives and Liberals will take more than 80 per cent of the vote between them. This is actually quite unusual. There hasn’t been a federal election where the top two parties took that much of the vote since 1958, when John Diefenbaker led the Progressive Conservatives to a historic majority: 54 per cent of the popular vote and 208 (of 265) seats.
Since the 1993 election – which saw big wins for the Bloc Quebecois and Reform parties – Canada has routinely seen four or five parties each win more than 10 per cent of the vote. Not this time.
Polls suggest the Liberals and Conservatives are each hovering around 40-per-cent. That’s usually enough to win big in an election (see Stephen Harper in 2011 or Justin Trudeau in 2015). But for whichever party comes in second, it won’t be enough.
04/28/25 15:01
Whoever wins inherits a shaky economy
– Matt Lundy
Hi, I’m Matt Lundy, The Globe’s economics editor. Whoever wins this election will be taking the reins of an economy on shaky ground, a theme that was highlighted in the Bank of Canada’s quarterly market participants survey, published today. The median estimate from about 30 individuals – a mix of senior economists and strategists involved in Canadian financial markets – is that Canada’s gross domestic product will expand 1 per cent this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.8 per cent. A sizable portion of analysts (22 per cent) actually expect GDP to decline, implying a recession this year. The survey was conducted between March 13 and 20, coinciding with the early days of the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum. Since then, the trade war has escalated.
04/28/25 14:57
After move from U.S., Toronto voter casts ballot with eye to political divide
– Dave McGinn
As little as six months ago, Gabriel Seamon was living in Philadelphia. Now, he’s afraid of returning to the U.S. any time soon.
Those fears were very much on the 26-year-old’s mind as he cast his ballot in a high school gymnasium in Toronto’s west end Monday.
“With what’s happened in the United States lately, and how drastically things have changed so fast, it’s more obvious to me than ever that it, like, matters more,” Mr. Seamon, who works in film and television, said of voting.
He worries that the political divisiveness he sees in the U.S. will spread to Canada if a certain federal leader wins the election, although he wouldn’t say who. If any of the other leaders win, he thinks Canada will be fine. Not perfect, but fine.
“Sometimes it’s more of, like, not wanting the worst than looking for something that’s, like, ideal,” he said.
04/28/25 14:38
On the ground in Vancouver where the mood is solemn after a horrific weekend
A woman lays flowers on Monday, April 28, 2025 at an impromptu memorial near the scene of the fatal vehicle ramming attack over the weekend that killed 11 people at a Filipino street festival in Vancouver. The school that hosted the weekend festival is also a polling station in Monday’s Canadian federal election.Jesse Winter/The Globe and Mail
Hello, I’m Marsha Lederman, a columnist in Vancouver. It is a very solemn day here after the horrific events of the weekend. But people have been voting since 7 a.m. (I just cast my own ballot), and I look forward to weighing in tonight on the results and any other election news.
One thing I want to say at this point is that whatever the results, they may lead to the end of some political careers. No matter what you think of their policies or approaches, people who go into politics generally have the greater good in mind. This is not an easy career or aspiration. So to everyone running in this election: Thank you!
04/28/25 13:56
Elizabeth May casts her ballot in Sidney, B.C.
– The Canadian Press
Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May cast her ballot in Sidney, B.C. She has represented the riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011.
04/28/25 13:52
New Brunswick is a bellwether this election
– Chris Hannay
Hi, I’m Chris Hannay, reporting from The Globe and Mail’s headquarters in Toronto.
Normally I write about the business of health care, but tonight I’m putting on my old politics hat. I worked in The Globe’s Ottawa bureau for seven years, and you can take the man out of Ottawa, but you can’t take Ottawa out of the man — or something like that.
I’ll be reporting on the election results as they come out. Before we start seeing vote counts, I’ll share some political history and statistics to help put the results in context.
The first results tonight will come from Atlantic Canada and will give us an early look at which way the wind is blowing. In 2015, the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau swept the whole region on the way to winning a majority government. In 2019 and 2021, they lost ground, particularly in rural regions, and had to settle for a minority government.
I’ll be looking at New Brunswick in particular as a bellwether. The Conservatives made major inroads and won four seats in 2021 in that province. If they do well there again, it could mean a happy night for the party.
04/28/25 13:46
On the ground in Toronto where one voter cites Trump and housing as reasons to vote
Voters line up to cast their ballot at a polling station during Canada’s federal election in Toronto on Monday.Wa Lone/Reuters
Hi, I’m Dave McGinn, a reporter for The Globe and Mail. I am in Toronto today talking to people who are casting a ballot.
It took Gillian Bevan just a few minutes to do so at a polling station in the city’s west end at lunchtime Monday.
“It’s important that everyone has a say, especially with everyone on the U.S. right now,” said the 27-year-old actuary.
The threat to Canada’s sovereignty raised by U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of turning Canada into the 51st state is one reason Ms. Bevan was determined to vote today.
Housing affordability is also top of mind for her.
“Being a young person in Toronto, I’m feeling like I might never afford a house,” she said.
04/28/25 13:25
Singh meets with staff and supporters in Port Moody, B.C.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to volunteers during a sign waving campaign event with Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo, front left, on election day, in Port Moody, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stopped to talk to campaign staff and volunteers in Port Moody, B.C. alongside NDP incumbent candidate Bonita Zarrillo earlier this morning. The assembled group of a couple dozen people held up NDP signs to attract the eye of drivers on their morning commute.
Mr. Singh talked about the importance of knocking on doors ahead of polls closing to try and get as many voters out as possible.
The NDP leader continued with his campaign message that things like dental care and pharmacare only happened because people chose to send New Democrats to Ottawa.
Mr. Singh is the incumbent candidate in Burnaby Central, which was formally known as Burnaby South before the boundaries were redrawn in the regular Elections Canada boundary review.
Mr. Singh and his wife, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, cast their ballots in early voting in Burnaby, B.C., on April 18.
04/28/25 13:18
The Globe spent this election travelling the country, in search of the Canadian public mood
Canadian military veteran Hamilton White, left, and his wife Andrea Boyd-White of Antigonish county, NS, finish up lunch at the Fleur-de-Lis diner in Port Hawkesbury, NS, on March 13, 2025.Steve Wadden/The Globe and Mail
Postcards are for clichés: the CN Tower, Lake Louise, a Maritime lighthouse. They’re pretty, and don’t tell you much.
In the past month, The Globe has set out to write a different kind of Canadian postcard, visiting cities and towns in sometimes-overlooked corners of the country and producing dispatches that show the place in the round, its underbelly as well as its pretty face.
We’re in a time of national soul-searching, prompted by annexation threats and a federal election, and this series has been a part of that process. Reporters based in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax all hit the road, sometimes returning to their home towns, sometimes visiting places they had never been before.
Earle Reid, the first voter at the polling station on the day of the election, in Dildo, Newfoundland.Greg Locke/Reuters
Voters in Canada’s four Atlantic provinces are expected to deliver a stay-the-course message to the country’s governing Liberals today as voting gets underway on the East Coast.
The party has dominated the region since 2015 when it won all 32 seats, but its grip on power slipped over the years under Justin Trudeau’s leadership.
When Liberal Leader Mark Carney called the election last month, his party held 23 seats, the Conservatives had eight, and one seat — a Halifax riding previously held by a Liberal — was vacant.
The latest polls were suggesting strong support for Liberals across the Atlantic region, but the Conservatives — led by Pierre Poilievre — were expected to hold on to some of their seats, while the New Democrats under Jagmeet Singh could be shut out again.
Pundits say Poilievre’s aggressive, populist style of leadership has been a tough sell in Atlantic Canada, where traditional Progressive Conservatives — including Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston — have largely shunned the federal Tory leader, who visited Nova Scotia only once during the campaign.
Meanwhile, Carney’s focus on dealing with the economic chaos unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump has paid dividends for the Liberals, whose approval ratings were higher in Atlantic Canada than in any other region.
04/28/25 11:59
Voters in Windsor, Ont., redirected after fire at polling station
– The Canadian Press
Voters are being redirected to a new location to cast their ballots in Windsor, Ont., after a fire closed down a recreation centre that was serving as a federal election polling station.
The Windsor fire department says crews responded to a fire on the roof of the WFCU Centre on Monday morning and everyone inside was evacuated.
The fire service says Elections Canada has moved the polling station to St. Joseph’s Catholic High School nearby.
It says the fire was under control as of 11 a.m., and a fire investigator will go to the WFCU Centre to look into the cause of the blaze.
Elections Canada was still listing the centre as a voting location in Monday’s federal election just before noon.
The elections agency did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet votes on federal election day in the riding of Beloeil-Chambly, Que.GRAHAM HUGHES/AFP/Getty Images
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet cast a ballot in Beloeil, Que. before meeting with reporters.
Mr. Blanchet says he’s not so much nervous as he is impatient for the results to start coming in later today and to see if the party meets its objectives for this election – which he wouldn’t divulge. His party went into the campaign with 33 seats.
Unlike his opponents, Mr. Blanchet has not taken to describing the federal election as being the “most consequential” and says it’s an important election like any other and should not be taken lightly.
A car enters the parking lot at a polling place on federal election day in Ottawa, Canada on Monday.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images
Burnaby Central, B.C.
The result here could help show whether the NDP have a future. Burnaby Central is a new riding, replacing Burnaby South. This was held by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Polls suggest Mr. Singh, who is the NDP candidate, is running third in the new riding as left-leaning voters coalesce behind the Liberals.
Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, Ont.
Key to any victory is the Golden Horseshoe, a riding-rich crescent that sits on Lake Ontario and includes Toronto as well as other cities. The Conservatives held Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill from 2018 to 2021. If they are to take advantage of unhappiness over living costs, immigration and a housing crisis – factors that dominated politics before U.S. President Donald Trump began threatening tariffs and annexation – the riding is a key target.
Trois-Rivieres, Que.
Any party wishing to win power must also perform well in Quebec, which has the second-largest number of seats in the House of Commons. It is the only province with its own party, Bloc Québécois, which is seeking independence for the province and whose fortunes can swing wildly. Trois-Rivieres is one of several in Quebec where three (and sometimes four parties) contend for the vote. The 2021 result was tight, with the Bloc winning by just 83 votes of the 58,110 that were cast.
Edmonton Southeast, Alta.
The Liberals have traditionally fared poorly in the western oil-producing province of Alberta, thanks to former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who introduced unpopular energy policies in the 1980s. Some of this enmity rubbed off on his son, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who at best only won a handful of Alberta seats. Now that Justin Trudeau is gone, the Liberals have a chance to repair their reputation. Ex-Liberal cabinet minister Amarjeet Sohi is running in the new riding of Edmonton Southeast, and if he wins, it will be a sign the party can succeed even in hostile territory.
Cumberland-Colchester, N.S.
The four provinces in Atlantic Canada, which contain a total of 32 seats and report their results first, often offer an early indication as to how the election might go. The region is politically volatile and results can swing broadly. The Liberals won Cumberland-Colchester by a few hundred votes in 2019 but lost it to the Conservatives in 2021.
Burlington, Ont.
This Ontario riding southwest of Toronto is the ultimate in Canadian bellwethers, having elected a legislator from the winning party for 12 consecutive elections going back to 1984.
04/28/25 11:24
Elections Canada says it’s managing long ballot with 90 candidates challenging Poilievre
– The Canadian Press
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is being challenged by 90 other candidates on the ballot.
Poilievre is in a tight race against Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, who has been waging an intense ground battle in the riding. But a protest group called the Longest Ballot Committee has convinced dozens of other candidates to register to run as Independents in Poilievre’s Ottawa-Carleton riding, in addition to the usual main party candidates.
The protest group opposes the first-past-the-post voting system and is seeking to build support for electoral reform.
Elections Canada says it has measures in place to help people vote in the Ontario riding. For example, the ballot for the Carleton electoral district is larger and has two columns with candidate names, which are listed alphabetically.
A large-print list of candidates will also be available and a braille template has been modified to fit the two-column ballot.
To maintain the integrity and security of the ballot, the agency says poll workers will be trained in a new method of folding the large ballot “so as to maintain the secrecy of the vote.”
It also says the “unusual form and size” of the ballot requires that experienced election officers be assigned to polling stations.
04/28/25 11:08
Poilievre casts his ballot at a polling station in Ottawa area
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife Anaida Poilievre make their way to cast their votes in the federal election on Monday in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre cast his ballot alongside his wife, Anaida Poilievre, at a polling station in Ottawa.
He remarked, “look at the size of the ballot” when he walked up to the voting booth. Mr. Poilievre’s riding of Carleton was targeted by a protest group filling the slate up with independent candidates to inflate the physical size of ballots and delay the count.
As he placed his ballot in the box, Mr. Poilievre told the gathered cameras: “Alright everyone, get out to vote — for a change,” echoing his slogan from the campaign.
04/28/25 11:04
From taxes to housing, here’s what each major party is promising for your finances
Election Personal Finance Platform Tracker 2025Photo illustration The globe and mail. Source images Getty Images/Getty Images
As Canadian voters head to the polls, many are thinking about how their personal finances are being affected by affordability challenges in recent years and now a global trade war.
From taxes to housing, here’s what you need to know about each party’s platform and where they stand on the issues that affect Canadians’ pocketbooks the most.
Poilievre, Carney, Singh respond to Trump comments
– Globe staff
After U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about Canada’s election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responded on X, writing, “President Trump, stay out of our election. The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box.
Canada will always be proud, sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be the 51st state.”
Liberal Leader Mark Carney also posted a video on X shortly afterward that didn’t directly mention Mr. Trump but stated: “This is Canada — and we decide what happens here.”
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh responded on X to Mr. Trump’s comments. “He doesn’t choose our future. We do,” he wrote. “Every New Democrat you send to Ottawa will stand up for our country.”
04/28/25 10:12
The system created to help homeless Canadians vote
Scott Rodger had housing in Quebec when he voted in the last federal election, but now, in Ottawa, he doesn’t. Nor does he have ID that meet Elections Canada’s requirements.Spencer Colby/The Globe and Mail
Elections Canada says it has been tackling the issue of homeless voters. “Some people face greater barriers than others when it comes to participating in elections,” Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault said in a statement. “It’s important for us to understand what those barriers are and work to reduce them.”
Homeless people who want to vote have several options. They need to present two pieces of ID, one of which can be a letter provided by an establishment that provides food, housing or social services. If they have neither, they can come to the polling station with someone who can vouch for them.
George Cicken has been staying with his mother in Vancouver since losing his home in Haida Gwaii in early 2024.
“It was a bit of a hassle getting registered but not too bad,” he said. “I got a bill with my name on it and my mother’s address, as well as an ID that I had from Haida Gwaii.”
Mr. Cicken noted the narrow margin of victory in B.C.’s provincial election last fall, saying it proved that every vote counts.
Polling stations are now open across the country as voters in British Columbia and Yukon join other Canadians heading to the polls.
04/28/25 09:47
TSX opens higher as Canada heads to polls
– Reuters
Canada’s main stock index opened higher on Monday, as investors prepared for the outcome of the general election in the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
At 9:31 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 0.16 per cent at 24,751.01 points.
04/28/25 09:32
How Indigenous groups have been working to get the vote out ahead of the federal election
– Willow Fiddler
Indigenous groups across Canada are trying through campaigns to encourage First Nations residents to cast ballots in order to have a say on issues that directly affect them. The Assembly of First Nations has also worked with Elections Canada to compile several resources for communities to assist voters, including materials in 13 Indigenous languages.
The remoteness of many Indigenous communities is a challenge to getting out the vote and it can be more difficult to hire and train election staff in these areas. But although other barriers Indigenous voters commonly face, such as proving identities and addresses, have improved since 2015 according to Elections Canada, the population is still less likely to turn out than non- Indigenous voters.
Kent McDonald hopes he will be able to vote on Monday after experiencing significant barriers in the 2021 federal election that led him to not cast a ballot.
The math and science teacher living on Little Red River Cree Nation, a semiremote Northern Alberta reserve about 800 kilometres north of Edmonton comprised of three communities, said he had planned to vote during his break at school where a polling station was supposed to be set up.
“We got to school that day and found out that no one had talked to the school about setting up a polling station there,” Mr. McDonald told The Globe and Mail.
Instead, he and members of his community of Fox Lake would have had to travel to a neighbouring community 40 kilometres away, a trip he said would involve driving through 15-centimetre mud ruts and with two-hour wait times each way for the barge that could only take two cars at a time.
Elections Canada has been working to remedy some of the problems from 2021 in Little Red River ahead of Monday’s vote, said Leanne Nyirfa, the agency’s regional media adviser for Alberta. She said the agency has been working with the Fox Lake band for several months and confirmed a polling station will be set up at the Jean-Baptiste Sewepagaham High School, where Mr. McDonald works.
Polls are now open in a majority of provinces and territories.
Voters in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Northwest Territories and Nunavut can cast their ballots for the next 12 hours.
04/28/25 09:14
Trump weighs in on election day
– The Canadian Press
U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on Canada’s election today, repeating his claim that Canada should become a U.S. state.
Mr. Trump’s tariffs and repeated threats of annexation have become a central issue ahead of today’s vote.
The president posted on his Truth Social platform that Canada could become a 51st state without “an artificially drawn line from many years ago.”
Mr. Trump says Canadians should “elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the U.S. administration will work with the new leadership of Canada.
He said there are areas for cooperation but that Mr. Trump is not happy with trade.
The president posted on his Truth Social platform that Canada could become a 51st state without “an artificially drawn line from many years ago.”
04/28/25 09:07
East to West: What matters to rural Canada in this election
It’s impossible to get a full picture of a country as big and diverse as Canada, but audio journalist Kasia Mychajlowycz set out on a road trip to ask as many people as she could: What’s the most important issue to you in this election campaign and why?
The answers ranged from affordability to health care, trust in government, reconciliation, tariffs and more. But in more than 35 interviews in a dozen places over seven provinces, people went beyond politics, retelling the joys, challenges and tragedies that make up all our lives.
From left to right: Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and co-leader of the Green Party Elizabeth May.The Canadian Press
Here’s where the leaders of Canada’s main political parties are on Election Day.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney
Mr. Carney will spend election night in Ottawa. He is expected to vote in the city on election day and will host an election night party that’s expected to begin at 9:30 p.m.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
No public events scheduled.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
Mr. Singh is scheduled to spend the day in British Columbia. He is expected to hold a campaign event at 8 a.m. in Port Moody, and will later travel to Burnaby to attend a Day of Mourning event. At 7 p.m., Singh will attend his election night event in Burnaby.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet
Mr. Blanchet is expected to spend the morning travelling around Quebec where he will meet with local candidates. He is expected to vote in Chambly, Que., around 10 a.m. Later, he is set to travel to Montreal where his party will hold an election night event at a hotel starting at 7 p.m.
Green Party Co-Leaders Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault
Ms. May is expected to spend election day in B.C., where she will cast her ballot and spend the day with local supporters. She will host her election night watch party in Victoria, which is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Mr. Pedneault will spend the day in his Montreal riding and will host an election party in Montreal starting at 8 p.m.
04/28/25 08:18
Mail-in votes are matching their pandemic peak, but snap election puts international voters on tight deadline
A eligible voter holds a voter information card after it arrived in the mail in a Carleton Place, Ont., Friday, April 11, 2025.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Leonard Belsher is his 87-year-old mother’s primary caregiver. When the federal election was called on short notice, they had already made travel plans for election day. Worried about his mother waiting in long lines at advance polls, which ended up seeing a record-breaking 7.3 million voters, he inquired about voting by mail.
Mr. Belsher, of Shawville, Que., is one of many Canadians who opted for a mail-in ballot.
Elections Canada has received 1,007,569 special ballots from voters thus far and says the tally is quickly approaching the record 1.17 million ballots received in the 2021 federal election. There are still 248,000 ballots yet to be returned, so it’s possible this election will break the pandemic high.
But the short election cycle that has more Canadians voting by mail may also be leaving the ballots of Canadians living abroad in danger of going uncounted.
A record-breaking 101,694 voting kits have been sent out to Canadians living abroad in this election, nearly double the 55,000 that were sent out in both 2019 and 2021. About 20,000 of those new international voters currently reside in the U.S.
As of Saturday, only one-third of the issued international ballots have been returned to Elections Canada – thousands fewer than were received in the previous two elections.
If the federal election were being fought in a domestic vacuum, without the casual threats of annexation and economic obliteration spewing from the White House, it would still be one for the ages.
Canada’s economy has experienced a historic bout of weak productivity and grappled with the fallout from record levels of immigration. And one must go back decades to find a housing market this unaffordable.
But, of course, this isn’t just an election battle about how to fix Canada’s homegrown challenges. U.S. President Donald Trump has fractured the global economic order and sewn unprecedented uncertainty, while his tariffs on many imports from Canada threaten investment and jobs in profound ways.
Rarely have the economic stakes been so high in a federal election.
From housing to energy, jobs, trade, productivity and Canada’s fiscal health, here are the ways Canada’s main parties are promising to safeguard the economy – and why those promises may be difficult to keep.
Futures for Canada’s main stock index were marginally lower Monday, with investors staying on the sidelines as the country heads into a federal election against the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
June futures on the S&P/TSX index were down 0.13 per cent at 6.30 a.m. ET.
Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar weakened against its U.S. counterpart.
The day range on the loonie was 71.97 US cents to 72.20 US cents in early trading. The Canadian dollar was up about 3.7 per cent against the greenback over the past month.
The U.S. dollar index, which weighs the greenback against a group of currencies, rose 0.13 per cent to 99.60.
A voting kiosk is flown across the river from Dawson City to West Dawson by helicopter so scientists working at the Eureka Weather station in the high Arctic can vote in the federal election.Gabriela Sgaga/Supplied
For the handful of scientists at the Eureka weather station in the High Arctic, voting is not a matter of trotting along to the local polling station.
Located at the top of the world, on the remote and rugged Ellesmere Island, even aircraft have trouble reaching the tiny weather base where temperatures can edge as low as -50.
So it took a military operation – with planning by three branches of the federal government and the help of a skilled Air Force pilot – to get ballots to seven Arctic weather forecasters in time for polling day.
Last week, at 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday, a Hercules military transport plane landed at the small gravel airstrip at the isolated weather station. It was only 13 below – balmy conditions for the High Arctic – and the researchers rushed out of their living quarters to collect their ballots.
They had been transported in a special sealed box, provided by Elections Canada, in a joint operation planned with precision with the federal Environment Department, which runs the weather station, and the Department of National Defence.
Election Platform guide 2025Source images The Canadian Press, Reuters, Getty Images/Custom
We compiled a comparative list for the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Bloc Québécois, Greens and the People’s Party. Here’s what you need to know about each party’s platform and where they stand on the issues that affect Canadians the most.
A sign directing people to a hall to cast their ballot at a polling station during early voting for Canada’s federal election in Montreal on April 20, 2025.Graham Hughes/Reuters
Canadians 18 and older are eligible to vote at the polling station in their riding. You can find your riding and the address of your polling station on the Elections Canada website by entering your postal code.
To vote, you can either bring photo ID or two pieces of ID – at least one with your current address. A list of acceptable forms of ID can be found here. (If you have received your voter registration card in the mail, bring that along with you.)
If you don’t have ID with you, you may declare your identity and address in writing and have someone who knows you and is assigned to your polling station vouch for you.
04/27/25 21:40
Party leaders offer condolences after deadly Vancouver festival incident
– Stephanie Levitz
Vancouver’s interim police chief is shown speaking after Saturday night’s deadly incident at the Lapu Lapu Festival, on Apr. 27, 2025.
The Globe and Mail
A pall was cast over the final day of the federal election campaign as party leaders adjusted their schedules in response to a deadly attack in Vancouver that left at least 11 people dead and many more injured.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh were at times openly emotional as they expressed horror and sadness over the attack at the Filipino community’s Lapu Lapu Festival late Saturday night.
All recalibrated the timing and tone of their final events the day before Canadians head to the polls to elect a new government.
Mr. Singh was at the festival hours before the attack occurred, and broke into tears as he told reporters Sunday morning that he couldn’t get the images of the joyful children he’d seen there out of his head.
A person walks into a polling station on the day of the federal election in Ottawa.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
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People wait to cast their votes at a polling station at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images
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Voters enter a polling station in Ndilo, a Yellowknives Dene First Nation community near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.PAT KANE/The New York Times News Service
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Voters line up to cast their ballot at a polling station during Canada’s federal election in Toronto.Wa Lone/Reuters
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People line up to cast their votes in the federal election at Sir Sanford Fleming School in Vancouver.Andrew Chin/Getty Images
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An election worker sets up a sign in front of a polling station during the federal election in Calgary.Ahmed Zakot/Reuters
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A pedestrian follows signs to a polling station at the Knox Presbyterian Church in Ottawa.Amber Bracken/Reuters
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A person casts their vote at a polling station at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images
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A man cycles past federal election signs in Ottawa.Shannon Vanraes/Reuters
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Elections Canada staff assist voters inside a polling station, during the federal election, in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
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People arrive at a polling place to vote on federal election day in Montreal.ALEXIS AUBIN/AFP/Getty Images
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Voters exit a polling station on the day of the federal election in Ottawa.Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
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People line up to vote in Canada’s federal election at St Giles Presbyterian Church in Ottawa.Shannon Vanraes/Reuters
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People vote at a polling place on federal election day in Montreal.ALEXIS AUBIN/AFP/Getty Images
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People enter a polling place on election day in Ottawa.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images
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A person exits a polling station during the federal election, in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
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Lawn signs for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and Bruce Fanjoy, Liberal candidate for House of Commons in the riding of Carleton, sit across from a polling station in Ottawa.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images
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Voters lining up outside a polling station prior to opening to cast their ballots on election day in Ottawa.DAVE CHAN/AFP/Getty Images
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People line up to cast their votes in the federal election at Sir Sanford Fleming School in Vancouver.Andrew Chin/Getty Images
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People line up to cast their votes in the federal election at Sir Sanford Fleming School in Vancouver.Andrew Chin/Getty Images
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People line up to vote outside a polling place on federal election day in Montreal.ALEXIS AUBIN/AFP/Getty Images
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife Anaida Poilievre cast their votes in the federal election in Ottawa.ADRIAN WYLD/AFP/Getty Images
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney casts his vote in the Ottawa riding of Nepean.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh cheers during a sign waving campaign event with Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo and volunteers on election day, in Port Moody, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
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Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet arrives to vote on federal election day in Chambly, Quebec.Graham Hughes/Reuters
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04/28/25 15:50
Banking on lower interest rates
– Matt Lundy
Here’s something Canada’s next prime minister can (almost certainly) bank on: lower interest rates.
The consensus on Bay Street and among investors is that the Bank of Canada will lower its policy interest rate – now at 2.75 per cent – several more times this year. The swaps market, which captures investor expectations of monetary policy, suggests the rate will fall to 2 per cent by December.
That would bring relief to many consumers and businesses – and lower the government’s own debt payments. But this rosy scenario is tempered by the wide-ranging effects of the trade war, which will constrain economic growth and push up prices, a phenomenon known as stagflation. And as the Bank of Canada has said many times, it has a limited number of tools to counter the fallout from steep U.S. tariffs.
04/28/25 15:44
The stakes in Battleground Ontario
– Laura Stone
Hi, I’m Laura Stone, a Queen’s Park reporter for The Globe and Mail.
I usually report on provincial politics, but I dabble in federal politics, too. (I’m also one of those rare ones who actually hails from Ottawa!)
Tonight I’ll be helping with our election coverage from The Globe’s headquarters in Toronto.
In particular, I’ll be watching Battleground Ontario, where both the Liberals and Tories are vying for seats in the Greater Toronto Area.
We’ve seen an extraordinary intervention throughout the campaign from those close to Ontario Premier Doug Ford – and even the Premier himself. Kory Teneycke, a Conservative strategist who managed Mr. Ford’s three back-to-back majority-winning campaigns, has criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s electoral strategy as “campaign malpractice.” And Mr. Ford has made no secret of his lack of a relationship with the federal leader.
It will be fascinating to see what happens tonight to the Conservative movement if Mr. Poilievre, who once led by more than 20 points in the polls, fails to lead his party to victory.
John Diefenbaker speaking at Ukrainian Concert, Massy Hall in Toronto, January 26, 1964.James Lewcun/The Globe and Mail
If the election results line up with polling, the Conservatives and Liberals will take more than 80 per cent of the vote between them. This is actually quite unusual. There hasn’t been a federal election where the top two parties took that much of the vote since 1958, when John Diefenbaker led the Progressive Conservatives to a historic majority: 54 per cent of the popular vote and 208 (of 265) seats.
Since the 1993 election – which saw big wins for the Bloc Quebecois and Reform parties – Canada has routinely seen four or five parties each win more than 10 per cent of the vote. Not this time.
Polls suggest the Liberals and Conservatives are each hovering around 40-per-cent. That’s usually enough to win big in an election (see Stephen Harper in 2011 or Justin Trudeau in 2015). But for whichever party comes in second, it won’t be enough.
04/28/25 15:01
Whoever wins inherits a shaky economy
– Matt Lundy
Hi, I’m Matt Lundy, The Globe’s economics editor. Whoever wins this election will be taking the reins of an economy on shaky ground, a theme that was highlighted in the Bank of Canada’s quarterly market participants survey, published today. The median estimate from about 30 individuals – a mix of senior economists and strategists involved in Canadian financial markets – is that Canada’s gross domestic product will expand 1 per cent this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.8 per cent. A sizable portion of analysts (22 per cent) actually expect GDP to decline, implying a recession this year. The survey was conducted between March 13 and 20, coinciding with the early days of the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum. Since then, the trade war has escalated.
04/28/25 14:57
Voting is more important than ever, says one Toronto voter
– Dave McGinn
As little as six months ago, Gabriel Seamon was living in Philadelphia. Now, he’s afraid of returning to the U.S. any time soon.
Those fears were very much on the 26-year-old’s mind as he cast his ballot in a high school gymnasium in Toronto’s west end Monday.
“With what’s happened in the United States lately, and how drastically things have changed so fast, it’s more obvious to me than ever that it, like, matters more,” Mr. Seamon, who works in film and television, said of voting.
He worries that the political divisiveness he sees in the U.S. will spread to Canada if a certain federal leader wins the election, although he wouldn’t say who. If any of the other leaders win, he thinks Canada will be fine. Not perfect, but fine.
“Sometimes it’s more of, like, not wanting the worst than looking for something that’s, like, ideal,” he said.
04/28/25 14:38
On the ground in Vancouver where the mood is solemn after a horrific weekend
A woman lays flowers on Monday, April 28, 2025 at an impromptu memorial near the scene of the fatal vehicle ramming attack over the weekend that killed 11 people at a Filipino street festival in Vancouver. The school that hosted the weekend festival is also a polling station in Monday’s Canadian federal election.Jesse Winter/The Globe and Mail
Hello, I’m Marsha Lederman, a columnist in Vancouver. It is a very solemn day here after the horrific events of the weekend. But people have been voting since 7 a.m. (I just cast my own ballot), and I look forward to weighing in tonight on the results and any other election news.
One thing I want to say at this point is that whatever the results, they may lead to the end of some political careers. No matter what you think of their policies or approaches, people who go into politics generally have the greater good in mind. This is not an easy career or aspiration. So to everyone running in this election: Thank you!
04/28/25 13:56
Elizabeth May casts her ballot in Sidney, B.C.
– The Canadian Press
Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May cast her ballot in Sidney, B.C. She has represented the riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011.
04/28/25 13:52
New Brunswick is a bellwether this election
– Chris Hannay
Hi, I’m Chris Hannay, reporting from The Globe and Mail’s headquarters in Toronto.
Normally I write about the business of health care, but tonight I’m putting on my old politics hat. I worked in The Globe’s Ottawa bureau for seven years, and you can take the man out of Ottawa, but you can’t take Ottawa out of the man — or something like that.
I’ll be reporting on the election results as they come out. Before we start seeing vote counts, I’ll share some political history and statistics to help put the results in context.
The first results tonight will come from Atlantic Canada and will give us an early look at which way the wind is blowing. In 2015, the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau swept the whole region on the way to winning a majority government. In 2019 and 2021, they lost ground, particularly in rural regions, and had to settle for a minority government.
I’ll be looking at New Brunswick in particular as a bellwether. The Conservatives made major inroads and won four seats in 2021 in that province. If they do well there again, it could mean a happy night for the party.
04/28/25 13:46
On the ground in Toronto where one voter cites Trump and housing as reasons to vote
Voters line up to cast their ballot at a polling station during Canada’s federal election in Toronto on Monday.Wa Lone/Reuters
Hi, I’m Dave McGinn, a reporter for The Globe and Mail. I am in Toronto today talking to people who are casting a ballot.
It took Gillian Bevan just a few minutes to do so at a polling station in the city’s west end at lunchtime Monday.
“It’s important that everyone has a say, especially with everyone on the U.S. right now,” said the 27-year-old actuary.
The threat to Canada’s sovereignty raised by U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of turning Canada into the 51st state is one reason Ms. Bevan was determined to vote today.
Housing affordability is also top of mind for her.
“Being a young person in Toronto, I’m feeling like I might never afford a house,” she said.
04/28/25 13:25
Singh meets with staff and supporters in Port Moody, B.C.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to volunteers during a sign waving campaign event with Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo, front left, on election day, in Port Moody, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stopped to talk to campaign staff and volunteers in Port Moody, B.C. alongside NDP incumbent candidate Bonita Zarrillo earlier this morning. The assembled group of a couple dozen people held up NDP signs to attract the eye of drivers on their morning commute.
Mr. Singh talked about the importance of knocking on doors ahead of polls closing to try and get as many voters out as possible.
The NDP leader continued with his campaign message that things like dental care and pharmacare only happened because people chose to send New Democrats to Ottawa.
Mr. Singh is the incumbent candidate in Burnaby Central, which was formally known as Burnaby South before the boundaries were redrawn in the regular Elections Canada boundary review.
Mr. Singh and his wife, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, cast their ballots in early voting in Burnaby, B.C., on April 18.
04/28/25 13:18
The Globe spent this election travelling the country, in search of the Canadian public mood
Canadian military veteran Hamilton White, left, and his wife Andrea Boyd-White of Antigonish county, NS, finish up lunch at the Fleur-de-Lis diner in Port Hawkesbury, NS, on March 13, 2025.Steve Wadden/The Globe and Mail
Postcards are for clichés: the CN Tower, Lake Louise, a Maritime lighthouse. They’re pretty, and don’t tell you much.
In the past month, The Globe has set out to write a different kind of Canadian postcard, visiting cities and towns in sometimes-overlooked corners of the country and producing dispatches that show the place in the round, its underbelly as well as its pretty face.
We’re in a time of national soul-searching, prompted by annexation threats and a federal election, and this series has been a part of that process. Reporters based in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax all hit the road, sometimes returning to their home towns, sometimes visiting places they had never been before.
Earle Reid, the first voter at the polling station on the day of the election, in Dildo, Newfoundland.Greg Locke/Reuters
Voters in Canada’s four Atlantic provinces are expected to deliver a stay-the-course message to the country’s governing Liberals today as voting gets underway on the East Coast.
The party has dominated the region since 2015 when it won all 32 seats, but its grip on power slipped over the years under Justin Trudeau’s leadership.
When Liberal Leader Mark Carney called the election last month, his party held 23 seats, the Conservatives had eight, and one seat — a Halifax riding previously held by a Liberal — was vacant.
The latest polls were suggesting strong support for Liberals across the Atlantic region, but the Conservatives — led by Pierre Poilievre — were expected to hold on to some of their seats, while the New Democrats under Jagmeet Singh could be shut out again.
Pundits say Poilievre’s aggressive, populist style of leadership has been a tough sell in Atlantic Canada, where traditional Progressive Conservatives — including Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston — have largely shunned the federal Tory leader, who visited Nova Scotia only once during the campaign.
Meanwhile, Carney’s focus on dealing with the economic chaos unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump has paid dividends for the Liberals, whose approval ratings were higher in Atlantic Canada than in any other region.
04/28/25 11:59
Voters in Windsor, Ont., redirected after fire at polling station
– The Canadian Press
Voters are being redirected to a new location to cast their ballots in Windsor, Ont., after a fire closed down a recreation centre that was serving as a federal election polling station.
The Windsor fire department says crews responded to a fire on the roof of the WFCU Centre on Monday morning and everyone inside was evacuated.
The fire service says Elections Canada has moved the polling station to St. Joseph’s Catholic High School nearby.
It says the fire was under control as of 11 a.m., and a fire investigator will go to the WFCU Centre to look into the cause of the blaze.
Elections Canada was still listing the centre as a voting location in Monday’s federal election just before noon.
The elections agency did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet votes on federal election day in Chambly, Que.GRAHAM HUGHES/AFP/Getty Images
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet cast a ballot in Beloeil, Que. before meeting with reporters.
Mr. Blanchet says he’s not so much nervous as he is impatient for the results to start coming in later today and to see if the party meets its objectives for this election – which he wouldn’t divulge. His party went into the campaign with 33 seats.
Unlike his opponents, Mr. Blanchet has not taken to describing the federal election as being the “most consequential” and says it’s an important election like any other and should not be taken lightly.
A car enters the parking lot at a polling place on federal election day in Ottawa, Canada on Monday.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images
Burnaby Central, B.C.
The result here could help show whether the NDP have a future. Burnaby Central is a new riding, replacing Burnaby South. This was held by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Polls suggest Mr. Singh, who is the NDP candidate, is running third in the new riding as left-leaning voters coalesce behind the Liberals.
Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, Ont.
Key to any victory is the Golden Horseshoe, a riding-rich crescent that sits on Lake Ontario and includes Toronto as well as other cities. The Conservatives held Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill from 2018 to 2021. If they are to take advantage of unhappiness over living costs, immigration and a housing crisis – factors that dominated politics before U.S. President Donald Trump began threatening tariffs and annexation – the riding is a key target.
Trois-Rivieres, Que.
Any party wishing to win power must also perform well in Quebec, which has the second-largest number of seats in the House of Commons. It is the only province with its own party, Bloc Québécois, which is seeking independence for the province and whose fortunes can swing wildly. Trois-Rivieres is one of several in Quebec where three (and sometimes four parties) contend for the vote. The 2021 result was tight, with the Bloc winning by just 83 votes of the 58,110 that were cast.
Edmonton Southeast, Alta.
The Liberals have traditionally fared poorly in the western oil-producing province of Alberta, thanks to former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who introduced unpopular energy policies in the 1980s. Some of this enmity rubbed off on his son, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who at best only won a handful of Alberta seats. Now that Justin Trudeau is gone, the Liberals have a chance to repair their reputation. Ex-Liberal cabinet minister Amarjeet Sohi is running in the new riding of Edmonton Southeast, and if he wins, it will be a sign the party can succeed even in hostile territory.
Cumberland-Colchester, N.S.
The four provinces in Atlantic Canada, which contain a total of 32 seats and report their results first, often offer an early indication as to how the election might go. The region is politically volatile and results can swing broadly. The Liberals won Cumberland-Colchester by a few hundred votes in 2019 but lost it to the Conservatives in 2021.
Burlington, Ont.
This Ontario riding southwest of Toronto is the ultimate in Canadian bellwethers, having elected a legislator from the winning party for 12 consecutive elections going back to 1984.
04/28/25 11:24
Elections Canada says it’s managing long ballot with 90 candidates challenging Poilievre
– The Canadian Press
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is being challenged by 90 other candidates on the ballot.
Poilievre is in a tight race against Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, who has been waging an intense ground battle in the riding. But a protest group called the Longest Ballot Committee has convinced dozens of other candidates to register to run as Independents in Poilievre’s Ottawa-Carleton riding, in addition to the usual main party candidates.
The protest group opposes the first-past-the-post voting system and is seeking to build support for electoral reform.
Elections Canada says it has measures in place to help people vote in the Ontario riding. For example, the ballot for the Carleton electoral district is larger and has two columns with candidate names, which are listed alphabetically.
A large-print list of candidates will also be available and a braille template has been modified to fit the two-column ballot.
To maintain the integrity and security of the ballot, the agency says poll workers will be trained in a new method of folding the large ballot “so as to maintain the secrecy of the vote.”
It also says the “unusual form and size” of the ballot requires that experienced election officers be assigned to polling stations.
04/28/25 11:08
Poilievre casts his ballot at a polling station in Ottawa area
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife Anaida Poilievre make their way to cast their votes in the federal election on Monday in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre cast his ballot alongside his wife, Anaida Poilievre, at a polling station in Ottawa.
He remarked, “look at the size of the ballot” when he walked up to the voting booth. Mr. Poilievre’s riding of Carleton was targeted by a protest group filling the slate up with independent candidates to inflate the physical size of ballots and delay the count.
As he placed his ballot in the box, Mr. Poilievre told the gathered cameras: “Alright everyone, get out to vote — for a change,” echoing his slogan from the campaign.
04/28/25 11:04
From taxes to housing, here’s what each major party is promising for your finances
Election Personal Finance Platform Tracker 2025Photo illustration The globe and mail. Source images Getty Images/Getty Images
As Canadian voters head to the polls, many are thinking about how their personal finances are being affected by affordability challenges in recent years and now a global trade war.
From taxes to housing, here’s what you need to know about each party’s platform and where they stand on the issues that affect Canadians’ pocketbooks the most.
Poilievre, Carney, Singh respond to Trump comments
– Globe staff
After U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about Canada’s election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responded on X, writing, “President Trump, stay out of our election. The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box.
Canada will always be proud, sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be the 51st state.”
Liberal Leader Mark Carney also posted a video on X shortly afterward that didn’t directly mention Mr. Trump but stated: “This is Canada — and we decide what happens here.”
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh responded on X to Mr. Trump’s comments. “He doesn’t choose our future. We do,” he wrote. “Every New Democrat you send to Ottawa will stand up for our country.”
04/28/25 10:12
The system created to help homeless Canadians vote
Scott Rodger had housing in Quebec when he voted in the last federal election, but now, in Ottawa, he doesn’t. Nor does he have ID that meet Elections Canada’s requirements.Spencer Colby/The Globe and Mail
Elections Canada says it has been tackling the issue of homeless voters. “Some people face greater barriers than others when it comes to participating in elections,” Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault said in a statement. “It’s important for us to understand what those barriers are and work to reduce them.”
Homeless people who want to vote have several options. They need to present two pieces of ID, one of which can be a letter provided by an establishment that provides food, housing or social services. If they have neither, they can come to the polling station with someone who can vouch for them.
George Cicken has been staying with his mother in Vancouver since losing his home in Haida Gwaii in early 2024.
“It was a bit of a hassle getting registered but not too bad,” he said. “I got a bill with my name on it and my mother’s address, as well as an ID that I had from Haida Gwaii.”
Mr. Cicken noted the narrow margin of victory in B.C.’s provincial election last fall, saying it proved that every vote counts.
Polling stations are now open across the country as voters in British Columbia and Yukon join other Canadians heading to the polls.
04/28/25 09:47
TSX opens higher as Canada heads to polls
– Reuters
Canada’s main stock index opened higher on Monday, as investors prepared for the outcome of the general election in the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
At 9:31 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 0.16 per cent at 24,751.01 points.
04/28/25 09:32
How Indigenous groups have been working to get the vote out ahead of the federal election
– Willow Fiddler
Indigenous groups across Canada are trying through campaigns to encourage First Nations residents to cast ballots in order to have a say on issues that directly affect them. The Assembly of First Nations has also worked with Elections Canada to compile several resources for communities to assist voters, including materials in 13 Indigenous languages.
The remoteness of many Indigenous communities is a challenge to getting out the vote and it can be more difficult to hire and train election staff in these areas. But although other barriers Indigenous voters commonly face, such as proving identities and addresses, have improved since 2015 according to Elections Canada, the population is still less likely to turn out than non- Indigenous voters.
Kent McDonald hopes he will be able to vote on Monday after experiencing significant barriers in the 2021 federal election that led him to not cast a ballot.
The math and science teacher living on Little Red River Cree Nation, a semiremote Northern Alberta reserve about 800 kilometres north of Edmonton comprised of three communities, said he had planned to vote during his break at school where a polling station was supposed to be set up.
“We got to school that day and found out that no one had talked to the school about setting up a polling station there,” Mr. McDonald told The Globe and Mail.
Instead, he and members of his community of Fox Lake would have had to travel to a neighbouring community 40 kilometres away, a trip he said would involve driving through 15-centimetre mud ruts and with two-hour wait times each way for the barge that could only take two cars at a time.
Elections Canada has been working to remedy some of the problems from 2021 in Little Red River ahead of Monday’s vote, said Leanne Nyirfa, the agency’s regional media adviser for Alberta. She said the agency has been working with the Fox Lake band for several months and confirmed a polling station will be set up at the Jean-Baptiste Sewepagaham High School, where Mr. McDonald works.
Polls are now open in a majority of provinces and territories.
Voters in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Northwest Territories and Nunavut can cast their ballots for the next 12 hours.
04/28/25 09:14
Trump weighs in on election day
– The Canadian Press
U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on Canada’s election today, repeating his claim that Canada should become a U.S. state.
Mr. Trump’s tariffs and repeated threats of annexation have become a central issue ahead of today’s vote.
The president posted on his Truth Social platform that Canada could become a 51st state without “an artificially drawn line from many years ago.”
Mr. Trump says Canadians should “elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the U.S. administration will work with the new leadership of Canada.
He said there are areas for cooperation but that Mr. Trump is not happy with trade.
04/28/25 09:07
East to West: What matters to rural Canada in this election
It’s impossible to get a full picture of a country as big and diverse as Canada, but audio journalist Kasia Mychajlowycz set out on a road trip to ask as many people as she could: What’s the most important issue to you in this election campaign and why?
The answers ranged from affordability to health care, trust in government, reconciliation, tariffs and more. But in more than 35 interviews in a dozen places over seven provinces, people went beyond politics, retelling the joys, challenges and tragedies that make up all our lives.
From left to right: Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and co-leader of the Green Party Elizabeth May.The Canadian Press
Here’s where the leaders of Canada’s main political parties are on Election Day.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney
Mr. Carney will spend election night in Ottawa. He is expected to vote in the city on election day and will host an election night party that’s expected to begin at 9:30 p.m.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
No public events scheduled.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
Mr. Singh is scheduled to spend the day in British Columbia. He is expected to hold a campaign event at 8 a.m. in Port Moody, and will later travel to Burnaby to attend a Day of Mourning event. At 7 p.m., Singh will attend his election night event in Burnaby.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet
Mr. Blanchet is expected to spend the morning travelling around Quebec where he will meet with local candidates. He is expected to vote in Chambly, Que., around 10 a.m. Later, he is set to travel to Montreal where his party will hold an election night event at a hotel starting at 7 p.m.
Green Party Co-Leaders Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault
Ms. May is expected to spend election day in B.C., where she will cast her ballot and spend the day with local supporters. She will host her election night watch party in Victoria, which is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Mr. Pedneault will spend the day in his Montreal riding and will host an election party in Montreal starting at 8 p.m.
04/28/25 08:18
Mail-in votes are matching their pandemic peak, but snap election puts international voters on tight deadline
A eligible voter holds a voter information card after it arrived in the mail in a Carleton Place, Ont., Friday, April 11, 2025.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Leonard Belsher is his 87-year-old mother’s primary caregiver. When the federal election was called on short notice, they had already made travel plans for election day. Worried about his mother waiting in long lines at advance polls, which ended up seeing a record-breaking 7.3 million voters, he inquired about voting by mail.
Mr. Belsher, of Shawville, Que., is one of many Canadians who opted for a mail-in ballot.
Elections Canada has received 1,007,569 special ballots from voters thus far and says the tally is quickly approaching the record 1.17 million ballots received in the 2021 federal election. There are still 248,000 ballots yet to be returned, so it’s possible this election will break the pandemic high.
But the short election cycle that has more Canadians voting by mail may also be leaving the ballots of Canadians living abroad in danger of going uncounted.
A record-breaking 101,694 voting kits have been sent out to Canadians living abroad in this election, nearly double the 55,000 that were sent out in both 2019 and 2021. About 20,000 of those new international voters currently reside in the U.S.
As of Saturday, only one-third of the issued international ballots have been returned to Elections Canada – thousands fewer than were received in the previous two elections.
If the federal election were being fought in a domestic vacuum, without the casual threats of annexation and economic obliteration spewing from the White House, it would still be one for the ages.
Canada’s economy has experienced a historic bout of weak productivity and grappled with the fallout from record levels of immigration. And one must go back decades to find a housing market this unaffordable.
But, of course, this isn’t just an election battle about how to fix Canada’s homegrown challenges. U.S. President Donald Trump has fractured the global economic order and sewn unprecedented uncertainty, while his tariffs on many imports from Canada threaten investment and jobs in profound ways.
Rarely have the economic stakes been so high in a federal election.
From housing to energy, jobs, trade, productivity and Canada’s fiscal health, here are the ways Canada’s main parties are promising to safeguard the economy – and why those promises may be difficult to keep.
Futures for Canada’s main stock index were marginally lower Monday, with investors staying on the sidelines as the country heads into a federal election against the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
June futures on the S&P/TSX index were down 0.13 per cent at 6.30 a.m. ET.
Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar weakened against its U.S. counterpart.
The day range on the loonie was 71.97 US cents to 72.20 US cents in early trading. The Canadian dollar was up about 3.7 per cent against the greenback over the past month.
The U.S. dollar index, which weighs the greenback against a group of currencies, rose 0.13 per cent to 99.60.
A voting kiosk is flown across the river from Dawson City to West Dawson by helicopter so scientists working at the Eureka Weather station in the high Arctic can vote in the federal election.Gabriela Sgaga/Supplied
For the handful of scientists at the Eureka weather station in the High Arctic, voting is not a matter of trotting along to the local polling station.
Located at the top of the world, on the remote and rugged Ellesmere Island, even aircraft have trouble reaching the tiny weather base where temperatures can edge as low as -50.
So it took a military operation – with planning by three branches of the federal government and the help of a skilled Air Force pilot – to get ballots to seven Arctic weather forecasters in time for polling day.
Last week, at 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday, a Hercules military transport plane landed at the small gravel airstrip at the isolated weather station. It was only 13 below – balmy conditions for the High Arctic – and the researchers rushed out of their living quarters to collect their ballots.
They had been transported in a special sealed box, provided by Elections Canada, in a joint operation planned with precision with the federal Environment Department, which runs the weather station, and the Department of National Defence.
Election Platform guide 2025Source images The Canadian Press, Reuters, Getty Images/Custom
We compiled a comparative list for the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Bloc Québécois, Greens and the People’s Party. Here’s what you need to know about each party’s platform and where they stand on the issues that affect Canadians the most.
A sign directing people to a hall to cast their ballot at a polling station during early voting for Canada’s federal election in Montreal on April 20, 2025.Graham Hughes/Reuters
Canadians 18 and older are eligible to vote at the polling station in their riding. You can find your riding and the address of your polling station on the Elections Canada website by entering your postal code.
To vote, you can either bring photo ID or two pieces of ID – at least one with your current address. A list of acceptable forms of ID can be found here. (If you have received your voter registration card in the mail, bring that along with you.)
If you don’t have ID with you, you may declare your identity and address in writing and have someone who knows you and is assigned to your polling station vouch for you.
04/27/25 21:40
Party leaders offer condolences after deadly Vancouver festival incident
– Stephanie Levitz
Vancouver’s interim police chief is shown speaking after Saturday night’s deadly incident at the Lapu Lapu Festival, on Apr. 27, 2025.
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A pall was cast over the final day of the federal election campaign as party leaders adjusted their schedules in response to a deadly attack in Vancouver that left at least 11 people dead and many more injured.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh were at times openly emotional as they expressed horror and sadness over the attack at the Filipino community’s Lapu Lapu Festival late Saturday night.
All recalibrated the timing and tone of their final events the day before Canadians head to the polls to elect a new government.
Mr. Singh was at the festival hours before the attack occurred, and broke into tears as he told reporters Sunday morning that he couldn’t get the images of the joyful children he’d seen there out of his head.
Supporters hold flags in support of Bloc Quebecois at election night headquarters in Montreal, Quebec.Mathieu Belanger/Reuters
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Sandy Duperval prepares to DJ at the Liberal Party’s election night gathering at TD Place in Ottawa.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
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A supporter at the Conservative Party election night event at Rogers Centre in Ottawa.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney take in the results on election night in Ottawa.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh sits with his wife Gurkiran Kaur and their daughters Dani Kaur, left, and Anhad Kaur while watching election results on television, in Burnaby, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
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Monitors display election poll results and other information in the control room for CBC’s election night coverage in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
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A worker prepares for Liberal Party election night event in Ottawa.Matt Mills McKnight/Reuters
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Voters line up at a polling location at the Collingwood Neighbourhood House in Vancouver.Lindsey Wasson/The Associated Press
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s supporters at an election night event at Rogers Centre in Ottawa.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
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Poll workers and electors are photographed at the Firefighters Banquet and Conference Centre in Burnaby, B.C.Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail
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A voter enters a polling station to cast a ballots in the federal election in Calgary, Alberta.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
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An Elections Canada employee holds used voter cards.IAN WILLMS/The New York Times News Service
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Special ballot officers count ballots sent in from around the world and Canada to be counted in the federal election on Monday in Ottawa.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
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Earle Reid, the first voter in Dildo, Newfoundland.Greg Locke/Reuters
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Crews prepare ahead of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre election night event in Ottawa.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
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A polling station in Ottawa.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
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A polling station at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images
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A polling station in Ndilo, a Yellowknives Dene First Nation community near Yellowknife.PAT KANE/The New York Times News Service
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Voters arrive at a polling station in Halifax.Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press
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Voters line up in Toronto.Wa Lone/Reuters
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A worker sets up a sign in front of a polling station in Calgary.Ahmed Zakot/Reuters
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Elections Canada staff assist voters in Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters
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People line up to vote in Montreal.ALEXIS AUBIN/AFP/Getty Images
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife Anaida Poilievre cast their votes in Ottawa.ADRIAN WYLD/AFP/Getty Images
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney casts his vote in the Ottawa riding of Nepean.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh cheers at a campaign event with Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo and volunteers in Port Moody, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
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Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet votes in Chambly, Quebec.Graham Hughes/Reuters
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04/28/25 21:57
Conservatives pick up two seats in Newfoundland and Labrador
– Lindsay Jones
Results for Newfoundland and Labrador showed the Conservatives picking up two seats.
In the riding of Long Range Mountains, Conservative candidate Carol Anstey, a real estate agent who contested the seat in the last federal election, flipped it from Liberal to Conservative.
In the riding of Terra Nova–The Peninsulas, Conservative candidate Jonathan Rowe was declared the winner.
Conservative incumbent Clifford Small has held onto his seat in Central Newfoundland, while Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson has also won back the riding of St. John’s East.
04/28/25 21:55
Incumbent Liberal Sean Fraser locked in tight battle for Nova Scotia riding
Just shy of 9:30 p.m. ET, Mr. Fraser was trailing Conservative candidate Brycen Jenkins by roughly 450 votes.PATRICK DOYLE/The Canadian Press
Sean Fraser, a stalwart cabinet minister in the Trudeau government, is locked in a tight battle for re-election in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova. Just shy of 9:30 p.m. ET, Mr. Fraser was trailing Conservative candidate Brycen Jenkins by roughly 450 votes, in what is effectively a two-party race.
Mr. Fraser served as cabinet minister in two areas – immigration and housing – where the Liberals were criticized in recent years for their policy decisions. He initially wasn’t going to run for re-election, citing his desire to spend more time with his family, but was lured back by Liberal Leader Mark Carney.
04/28/25 21:50
Conservatives expected to dominate in Alberta as polls close in Prairies
A voter enters a polling station to cast a ballots in the federal election in Calgary, Monday, April 28, 2025.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
Polling stations in Alberta are now closed. There are 37 seats at stake in the province, up from 34 the last go-around. The Conservatives are expected to dominate Alberta again, but the Liberals could gain ground in the province’s two largest cities, Calgary and Edmonton.
In 2021, the Conservatives won all but four ridings in Alberta. The Liberals and New Democratic Party picked up two ridings each. But this election could be different.
Here are some ridings to watch as results trickle in: Calgary Centre, Calgary Confederation, Calgary Skyview, Edmonton Gateway, Edmonton Griesbach and Edmonton Southeast.
04/28/25 21:45
Liberal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc re-elected; ‘hopeful’ for majority
– Laura Stone
Liberal Dominic LeBlanc, re-elected in New Brunswick in the riding he’s held since 2000, says he’s hoping for a Liberal majority government, but acknowledged it is “fair” to say the party was expecting better initial results in Atlantic Canada.
Speaking to CBC’s Rosemary Barton shortly after 9 p.m. ET, Mr. LeBlanc said there are a lot of votes yet to be counted and that the slower results are linked to heavy turnouts in both advance polls and on election day. Initial results showed the Liberals elected in 22 ridings and the Tories in 10 – meaning the Conservatives picked up seats in a region the Liberals had hoped to sweep.
“I think that we should still be very confident in Mr. Carney’s campaign, and I’m confident that there’s going to be a Liberal government. It could be a majority government, but we’ll see as we get into the heavy numbers in Ontario, Quebec and provinces like British Columbia,” Mr. LeBlanc said.
At 9:05 p.m. ET, the Elections Canada main website was back up and running, though the agency said not everything had been restored.
The agency has a note at the top of the webpage stating that it is having technical difficulties, and as a result some of the online services and tools are unavailable.
“We are aware of the issue and are working hard to fix it,” the note reads. “We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Elections Canada’s results page is also accessible here.
A man holds a Canadian flag attached to a hockey stick during a rally for national pride outside the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada April 6, 2025.Ed White/Reuters
Opinion: The question is – will it be different this time?
Regardless of who wins this election, one thing is clear: Canada cannot continue as it has.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development forecasts Canada’s long-term GDP per capita growth last among 38 advanced economies. Many people are struggling, and food-bank lineups are long and visible. Eighteen per cent of people in those food-bank lines have jobs. And first-time homebuyers are typically moving past middle age, almost 40 years old, according to RBC Economics. For decades, average real incomes flatlined while inflation chewed away at Canadian living standards.
Party platforms released during the campaign have failed to meet the magnitude of reform needed to reverse Canada’s economic decline.
Encouraging competition, improving productivity and living standards is not a mystery. It’s been done before.
So, will the new government rise to the challenge? Our prosperity depends on it. Read the full column here.
04/28/25 21:05
Incoming results in Atlantic Canada not far off from 2021 election
– Chris Hannay
Results in Atlantic Canada are showing a close race. So far, 12 seats have been called for the Liberals and five for the Conservatives – not far off from the results in 2021. The Conservatives have picked up one seat so far, and it looks like they could possibly pick up another one or maybe two. Three of the Liberals elected are Leader Mark Carney’s cabinet ministers — Joanne Thompson was elected in St. John’s East, Kody Blois was elected in Kings-Hants and Dominic LeBlanc was elected in Beauséjour. But there’s neither a big red wave nor a blue one. These are surprisingly good results for incumbents so far, given how tumultuous politics has been in recent months.
04/28/25 21:00
How many seats for a majority government, and what happens if no party reaches it?
– Chris Hannay
If no party wins a majority of seats tonight – that is, at least 172 – we get to revisit the rules for a minority government. We’ve been here many times before: 2021, 2019, 2008, 2006 and 2004, just to name a few. In all those cases, the party that won the most seats went on to form government. The party in power survived confidence votes by aligning with another party on either a case-by-case basis (under Stephen Harper, and in Justin Trudeau’s first minority term), or through a formal agreement (the Liberal-NDP pact signed in 2022).
But the actual convention is that the incumbent party in power should get a first crack at forming government. This becomes relevant if, say, two parties win almost an equal number of seats. That hasn’t been an issue federally in generations. But it has mattered on a provincial level. For example, in the 2017 B.C. election, Christy Clark’s Liberals won 43 seats, one shy of a majority. Her government was toppled by John Horgan’s NDP, which had won 41 seats, but was backed up by three Green MLAs.
04/28/25 20:55
Elections Canada website experiencing difficulties, but cause unknown
– Emily Haws
Elections Canada has confirmed that some voters were experiencing difficulties accessing the agency’s website.
In a statement, the Elections Canada media-relations team said it was informed about the issue at 7 p.m. ET.
“We are currently investigating the issue,” the agency said. “We informed electors on our social media platforms how to find their assigned polling station.”
Voters can find their polling location by checking their voter information card, contacting their local Elections Canada office, or calling the national phone line at 1-800-463-6868, it said.
The statement did not offer a timeline for when the website is expected to be back up and running. The site’s results tracker — and specific riding information — is still operational.
Supporters for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre file in during the Conservative Party election night event at Rogers Centre Ottawa on April 28, 2025 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images
At Conservative HQ, a sense of eagerness and anticipation
At the Conservatives’ party, there are only a couple hundred people in the room so far, but you can feel the eagerness as the early results creep in. You know that thing when you’re bowling and you wave your arms from the end of the lane to try to psychically direct the ball where you want it to go? The energy is like that.
The big projection screens here keep switching between television networks, and each time a network reports a specific seat leaning or definitively going Tory, a cheer goes up. A bigger roar went up at 8:13 p.m., when CBC showed the seat count on the East Coast tied at 13 apiece for the Conservatives and Liberals, and a brief chant of “bring it home” started up.
There’s a lot of wobbling in the standings at the moment because the results coming in are so preliminary and the counting seems to be going slowly out east. Still lots of time left to wave the bowling ball around.
04/28/25 20:40
Conservatives pick up a seat from Liberals in Newfoundland and Labrador
– Chris Hannay
Calls are starting to come in for seats in Newfoundland and Labrador. As of 8:20 p.m., two were called for the Liberals and two for the Conservatives. One of those Conservative wins – Long Range Mountains – is a pickup from the Liberals, while Central Newfoundland was the one Conservative win in 2021. In both ridings, the Conservatives won far more votes than last election.
04/28/25 20:35
The view from the Liberals’ election-night event in Ottawa
The stage is prepared for the election night event for Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Liberal Party leader, at TD Place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Monday, April 28, 2025.COLE BURSTON/The New York Times News Service
Hello, I’m Bill Curry, The Globe’s deputy Ottawa bureau chief. I’ve been on the road covering both Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre during the campaign. Tonight, I’m in Ottawa at the Liberal Party’s campaign headquarters at TD Place Arena with Globe political columnist Campbell Clark.
There is a large stage with a big screen showing election results. The feed alternates between the English CBC and the French Radio-Canada broadcasts. There are three large Canadian flags and Mr. Carney’s campaign slogan, Canada Strong, is prominent. Several television networks are set up with the stage as their background. As of 8:20 p.m., it’s mostly media in the space.
04/28/25 20:30
– Globe Staff
The Globe travelled from east to west across Canada, asking people what issues mattered to them in the 2025 federal election.
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Watch: What Canadians say matters most to them this election
We travelled from east to west across Canada, asking people what campaign issues mattered to them. Here’s what they said.
04/28/25 20:25
Conservatives hold battleground riding of Central Newfoundland
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Conservative incumbent Clifford Small held on to his seat in Central Newfoundland, defeating Liberal Lynette Powell and NDP candidate Darian Vincent. Mr. Small narrowly defeated the Liberals in 2021 by less than one percentage point in this riding, which was then named Coast of Bays–Central–Notre Dame. He was the only Conservative MP elected in the province between 2015 and 2025. He sat on the fisheries committee in the last Parliament.
04/28/25 20:15
First results come in Atlantic Canada
– The Canadian Press
The polls have closed in Atlantic Canada, where Liberal candidates are hoping that their party’s lead in the latest national opinion surveys will be reflected at the ballot boxes.
East Coast voters were expected to deliver a stay-the-course message to the governing Liberals, who have dominated the region since 2015 when the party won all 32 seats under Justin Trudeau.
But the Liberals’ grip on power slipped over the years under Mr. Trudeau’s leadership, and by the time his replacement, Mark Carney, called the election last month, the party had dipped to 23 seats, the Tories had risen to eight, and one seat – a Halifax riding previously held by a Liberal – was vacant.
The Conservatives – led by Pierre Poilievre – were expected to hold on to some, if not all of their seats in the region, while the New Democrats under Jagmeet Singh were hoping for a surprise breakthrough in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia.
04/28/25 20:10
Ontario’s 905 region to tell the story of the election, strategist says
– Laura Stone
Conservative strategist Kory Teneycke, who has been critical of the Poilievre campaign, said Monday that the story of the election will be told in the 905 – referring to the suburbs in the Greater Toronto Area.
Mr. Teneycke, campaign manager for Ontario Premier Doug Ford, told CTV News that the Conservative Party did not address the Trump threat early enough in the campaign. “My experience, having just come through an election in Ontario, is that was the issue that was driving voters and I think that’s what we’ve seen play out in this campaign,” Mr. Teneycke told CTV.
He said Pierre Poilievre’s campaign has moved in recent days to address the Trump issue – saying the Conservative Leader had a strong social-media post Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex Canada – and that he predicts a close race, particularly in the 905.
“What happens in that 905 belt is going to be pretty important,” he said.
04/28/25 20:05
Trade war the top issue for older voters, but an afterthought for younger Canadians
Steel workers work at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ont., on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
In a recent story from my colleague Nojoud Al Mallees, there was a set of polling numbers that really stood out: The trade war is the top issue for voters 55 and older, but a relative afterthought for the younger crowd. It felt as if the campaign was hijacked by U.S. President Donald Trump and the very real threat of economic devastation from tariffs, obscuring other concerns.
And for young people, the mounting cost of living – particularly for homes – is a huge concern. Royal Bank of Canada said in a March report that affordability is “exceptionally stretched,” despite falling interest rates. And even with a recent slump in the real estate market, the national benchmark home price is around $700,000 – an increase of nearly $200,000 in six years. The next federal government will need to show how seriously it’s taking the housing crisis, even as the trade war sucks up all the oxygen in the room.
04/28/25 20:00
Elections Canada website goes down
– Emily Haws
Elections Canada’s website has gone down, about 40 minutes after polls closed in Newfoundland. The organization provides polling station information and voting requirements for voters. The site’s results tracker — and specific riding information — is still operational.
For voters unable to access the site, the agency says they can find their polling location by checking their voter information card, by phoning their local Elections Canada office, or by calling the national line at 1-800-463-6868.
04/28/25 19:50
Canada’s new and redrawn ridings, explained
– Kobe Tulloch
Canada has five new ridings in this federal election, for a total of 343. The districts were added in 2022, required by the 10-year census and the Canada Elections Act. They’re meant to reflect the growing population in Canada. Three of the new seats are in Alberta, with one in British Columbia and one in Ontario. Most ridings were redrawn, as populations have shifted around the country and grown at different rates. Toronto lost one of the Ontario ridings completely in the redrawing process, dropping from 25 districts to 24.
Crews work to prepare the Canada Hall at Rogers Centre Ottawa, Monday, April 28, 2025.Ashley Fraser/The Globe and Mail
The view from the Conservatives’ Ottawa election-night event
Senior political reporter Stephanie Levitz and I are at the Conservatives’ election-night event at the Rogers Centre. This is the default big-event venue in downtown Ottawa, which means it’s the same room where the Liberals had their Christmas party the day after Chrystia Freeland resigned in rather spectacular fashion, and where the Liberal leadership announcement took place less than two months ago. There are lots of political ghosts in this airplane hangar perched next to the Rideau Canal.
The room is very much in ready-and-waiting mode at the moment, with journalists all in place, and the public is just starting to trickle in. The giant Canada flag hanging beside the stage has been steamed, the bars at the centre of the room are set up but not yet open, and they just turned on the huge TVs displaying live results as the very first returns trickle in from Newfoundland.
04/28/25 19:25
Were the polls wrong? We’ll find out soon
– Laura Stone
Much has been made about the polls this campaign, and whether they’ve been able to truly capture what’s happening on the ground.
Many polls have put the Liberals in majority territory, with senior Grits musing privately about taking upward of 190 seats. The Tories believe they can outperform the polls, according to former Alberta premier Jason Kenney, who told CBC News Monday evening that the party hopes to draw on the “shy Tory” phenomenon, meaning that some people may not divulge their support publicly.
The NDP are trying to find solace in Ontario’s recent election campaign, which saw the provincial party trailing in third place leading up to election day. But the Ontario NDP had a more efficient vote than the second-place Liberals and were returned to Official Opposition status. We’ll see what happens this evening and whether the polls were right – or wrong.
Elections Canada signs show the direction to the polling station, on the day of the election, in Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada, April 28, 2025.Greg Locke/Reuters
The first ballots will begin being counted in just a few minutes, as polls close in Newfoundland. Results will continue to come in as voting ends across the country, with the last polls closing in BC at 10:00 p.m. ET. You can follow our riding-by-riding map as preliminary results come in.
It is unclear how long it might take before final counts are delivered. Elections Canada received more than one million special ballots this election, which take much longer to tally than those cast at polling stations on election day.
A spokesperson from Elections Canada said their “rule of thumb is that a team of two counters can handle about 500 special ballots over the course of election night.” That could require more than 2,000 teams of counters across the country dedicated to special ballots alone.
Elections Canada says they are taking measures to provide results in a timely manner.
04/28/25 18:25
– Gary Mason
Why I’m keeping an eye on the NDP results tonight
Hi, I’m Gary Mason, The Globe’s national-affairs columnist based in Vancouver. This is shaping up to be one of the more interesting federal elections that I’ve covered or commented on in quite some time.
If the Liberals win, it will mark one of the most remarkable political turnarounds in Canadian history – maybe the most remarkable. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
One of the things I’m going to be on the lookout for is the performance of the NDP. The last time the party took less than 10 per cent of the popular vote was 25 years ago. But the party has been on a downward trajectory since its high-water mark of 103 seats, achieved in the 2011 “Orange Wave” election under leader Jack Layton. Between then and the last election, the party has seen its vote count drop by more than 1.5 million.
04/28/25 17:45
Elections Canada warns voters to watch for election day misinformation
Voters cast their ballots at a polling place in the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal in Montreal, on Monday, April 28, 2025.NASUNA STUART-ULIN/The New York Times News Service
Elections Canada is warning voters to disregard false information being shared on social media that says voting in the federal election was being delayed for people 60 and older.
An account on the X platform that is labelled “parody” posted an image of a fake Journal de Montréal story saying in French that people 60 and older would vote on Tuesday to avoid long lines.
Elections Canada published a message on its social-media accounts saying that people shouldn’t believe everything they see.
“Today is your last chance to vote at your assigned polling station,” the message says.
04/28/25 17:30
Trade war may cause recession in Canada, but U.S. businesses are suffering as well
– Matt Lundy
As Canada’s next prime minister deals with the trade war with the United States, it’s worth keeping in mind that the Trump administration’s tariffs are deeply unpopular with American business leaders – offering some hope of a resolution or concessions.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published a survey today of Texas business executives, many of whom panned U.S. trade policies. “A lack of a plan and the arbitrary nature of the tariffs are killing business,” one unnamed executive said. “Tariff uncertainty and the timeline have created significant chaos,” another said.
So, yes, the trade war could send Canada into a recession. But the fallout won’t be one-sided, and the U.S. will be tested over how much pain it can endure.
04/28/25 17:10
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Voters wait in line at a polling station in Ottawa Centre on the day of the federal election in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 28, 2025.Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
Romy Andre was intent on voting today in his riding of Ottawa Centre, but had left his ID behind at his parents’ place in Orleans, in the east end of the city. He did, however, have a pair of purple rabbit ears, which he wore because, he said, they felt right.
As he left the polling station at a downtown Ottawa church, Mr. Andre, 24, said he has a lot on his plate. “I literally have two jobs and work six days a week so I guess I am kind of busy,” he said.
Along Elgin Street in the heart of the national capital, traffic seemed light on election day-afternoon.
Ottawa Centre covers the city’s downtown, including the Parliament Buildings. Its previous MPs have included onetime federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent and former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna. The incumbent MP is Liberal Yasir Naqvi, formerly Ontario’s attorney-general.
Mr. Andre said he could blame the system for not being able to vote. But, he added, “I kind of want to blame myself to be honest.”
Asked why he was intent on voting, he said, “The person I would never vote for? I’m kind of scared that they win.”
It was a more productive day for John Banys.
“It wasn’t very busy,” said Mr. Banys, 77, who was using a walker. He said the situation was complicated for him because he is visually impaired.
“It’s a good time right now to vote. Canada is going to go through a lot, and it’s going to have to have some leadership,” he said.
04/28/25 15:50
Next PM can bank on lower interest rates
– Matt Lundy
Here’s something Canada’s next prime minister can (almost certainly) bank on: lower interest rates.
The consensus on Bay Street and among investors is that the Bank of Canada will lower its policy interest rate – now at 2.75 per cent – several more times this year. The swaps market, which captures investor expectations of monetary policy, suggests the rate will fall to 2 per cent by December.
That would bring relief to many consumers and businesses. But this rosy scenario is tempered by the wide-ranging effects of the trade war, which will constrain economic growth and push up prices, a phenomenon known as stagflation. And as the Bank of Canada has said many times, it has a limited number of tools to counter the fallout from steep U.S. tariffs.
04/28/25 15:44
The stakes in Ontario battleground ridings
– Laura Stone
Hi, I’m Laura Stone, a Queen’s Park reporter for The Globe and Mail.
I usually report on provincial politics, but I dabble in federal politics, too. (I’m also one of those rare ones who actually hails from Ottawa!)
Tonight I’ll be helping with our election coverage from The Globe’s headquarters in Toronto.
In particular, I’ll be watching Battleground Ontario, where both the Liberals and Tories are vying for seats in the Greater Toronto Area.
We’ve seen an extraordinary intervention throughout the campaign from those close to Ontario Premier Doug Ford – and even the Premier himself. Kory Teneycke, a Conservative strategist who managed Mr. Ford’s three back-to-back majority-winning campaigns, has criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s electoral strategy as “campaign malpractice.” And Mr. Ford has made no secret of his lack of a relationship with the federal leader.
It will be fascinating to see what happens tonight to the Conservative movement if Mr. Poilievre, who once led by more than 20 points in the polls, fails to lead his party to victory.
John Diefenbaker speaking at Ukrainian Concert, Massey Hall in Toronto, January 26, 1964.James Lewcun/The Globe and Mail
If the election results line up with polling, the Conservatives and Liberals will take more than 80 per cent of the vote between them. This is actually quite unusual. There hasn’t been a federal election where the top two parties took that much of the vote since 1958, when John Diefenbaker led the Progressive Conservatives to a historic majority: 54 per cent of the popular vote and 208 (of 265) seats.
Since the 1993 election – which saw big wins for the Bloc Quebecois and Reform parties – Canada has routinely seen four or five parties each win more than 10 per cent of the vote. Not this time.
Polls suggest the Liberals and Conservatives are each hovering around 40-per-cent. That’s usually enough to win big in an election (see Stephen Harper in 2011 or Justin Trudeau in 2015). But for whichever party comes in second, it won’t be enough.
04/28/25 15:01
Whoever wins inherits a shaky economy
– Matt Lundy
Hi, I’m Matt Lundy, The Globe’s economics editor. Whoever wins this election will be taking the reins of an economy on shaky ground, a theme that was highlighted in the Bank of Canada’s quarterly market participants survey, published today. The median estimate from about 30 individuals – a mix of senior economists and strategists involved in Canadian financial markets – is that Canada’s gross domestic product will expand 1 per cent this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.8 per cent. A sizable portion of analysts (22 per cent) actually expect GDP to decline, implying a recession this year. The survey was conducted between March 13 and 20, coinciding with the early days of the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum. Since then, the trade war has escalated.
04/28/25 14:57
After move from U.S., Toronto voter casts ballot with eye to political divide
– Dave McGinn
As little as six months ago, Gabriel Seamon was living in Philadelphia. Now, he’s afraid of returning to the U.S. any time soon.
Those fears were very much on the 26-year-old’s mind as he cast his ballot in a high school gymnasium in Toronto’s west end Monday.
“With what’s happened in the United States lately, and how drastically things have changed so fast, it’s more obvious to me than ever that it, like, matters more,” Mr. Seamon, who works in film and television, said of voting.
He worries that the political divisiveness he sees in the U.S. will spread to Canada if a certain federal leader wins the election, although he wouldn’t say who. If any of the other leaders win, he thinks Canada will be fine. Not perfect, but fine.
“Sometimes it’s more of, like, not wanting the worst than looking for something that’s, like, ideal,” he said.
04/28/25 14:38
On the ground in Vancouver where the mood is solemn after a horrific weekend
A woman lays flowers on Monday, April 28, 2025 at an impromptu memorial near the scene of the fatal vehicle ramming attack over the weekend that killed 11 people at a Filipino street festival in Vancouver. The school that hosted the weekend festival is also a polling station in Monday’s Canadian federal election.Jesse Winter/The Globe and Mail
Hello, I’m Marsha Lederman, a columnist in Vancouver. It is a very solemn day here after the horrific events of the weekend. But people have been voting since 7 a.m. (I just cast my own ballot), and I look forward to weighing in tonight on the results and any other election news.
One thing I want to say at this point is that whatever the results, they may lead to the end of some political careers. No matter what you think of their policies or approaches, people who go into politics generally have the greater good in mind. This is not an easy career or aspiration. So to everyone running in this election: Thank you!
04/28/25 13:56
Elizabeth May casts her ballot in Sidney, B.C.
– The Canadian Press
Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May cast her ballot in Sidney, B.C. She has represented the riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011.
04/28/25 13:52
New Brunswick is a bellwether this election
– Chris Hannay
Hi, I’m Chris Hannay, reporting from The Globe and Mail’s headquarters in Toronto.
Normally I write about the business of health care, but tonight I’m putting on my old politics hat. I worked in The Globe’s Ottawa bureau for seven years, and you can take the man out of Ottawa, but you can’t take Ottawa out of the man — or something like that.
I’ll be reporting on the election results as they come out. Before we start seeing vote counts, I’ll share some political history and statistics to help put the results in context.
The first results tonight will come from Atlantic Canada and will give us an early look at which way the wind is blowing. In 2015, the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau swept the whole region on the way to winning a majority government. In 2019 and 2021, they lost ground, particularly in rural regions, and had to settle for a minority government.
I’ll be looking at New Brunswick in particular as a bellwether. The Conservatives made major inroads and won four seats in 2021 in that province. If they do well there again, it could mean a happy night for the party.
04/28/25 13:46
On the ground in Toronto where one voter cites Trump and housing as reasons to vote
Voters line up to cast their ballot at a polling station during Canada’s federal election in Toronto on Monday.Wa Lone/Reuters
Hi, I’m Dave McGinn, a reporter for The Globe and Mail. I am in Toronto today talking to people who are casting a ballot.
It took Gillian Bevan just a few minutes to do so at a polling station in the city’s west end at lunchtime Monday.
“It’s important that everyone has a say, especially with everyone on the U.S. right now,” said the 27-year-old actuary.
The threat to Canada’s sovereignty raised by U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of turning Canada into the 51st state is one reason Ms. Bevan was determined to vote today.
Housing affordability is also top of mind for her.
“Being a young person in Toronto, I’m feeling like I might never afford a house,” she said.
04/28/25 13:25
Singh meets with staff and supporters in Port Moody, B.C.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to volunteers during a sign waving campaign event with Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo, front left, on election day, in Port Moody, B.C.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stopped to talk to campaign staff and volunteers in Port Moody, B.C. alongside NDP incumbent candidate Bonita Zarrillo earlier this morning. The assembled group of a couple dozen people held up NDP signs to attract the eye of drivers on their morning commute.
Mr. Singh talked about the importance of knocking on doors ahead of polls closing to try and get as many voters out as possible.
The NDP leader continued with his campaign message that things like dental care and pharmacare only happened because people chose to send New Democrats to Ottawa.
Mr. Singh is the incumbent candidate in Burnaby Central, which was formally known as Burnaby South before the boundaries were redrawn in the regular Elections Canada boundary review.
Mr. Singh and his wife, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, cast their ballots in early voting in Burnaby, B.C., on April 18.
04/28/25 13:18
The Globe spent this election travelling the country, in search of the Canadian public mood
Canadian military veteran Hamilton White, left, and his wife Andrea Boyd-White of Antigonish county, NS, finish up lunch at the Fleur-de-Lis diner in Port Hawkesbury, NS, on March 13, 2025.Steve Wadden/The Globe and Mail
Postcards are for clichés: the CN Tower, Lake Louise, a Maritime lighthouse. They’re pretty, and don’t tell you much.
In the past month, The Globe has set out to write a different kind of Canadian postcard, visiting cities and towns in sometimes-overlooked corners of the country and producing dispatches that show the place in the round, its underbelly as well as its pretty face.
We’re in a time of national soul-searching, prompted by annexation threats and a federal election, and this series has been a part of that process. Reporters based in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax all hit the road, sometimes returning to their home towns, sometimes visiting places they had never been before.
Earle Reid, the first voter at the polling station on the day of the election, in Dildo, Newfoundland.Greg Locke/Reuters
Voters in Canada’s four Atlantic provinces are expected to deliver a stay-the-course message to the country’s governing Liberals today as voting gets underway on the East Coast.
The party has dominated the region since 2015 when it won all 32 seats, but its grip on power slipped over the years under Justin Trudeau’s leadership.
When Liberal Leader Mark Carney called the election last month, his party held 23 seats, the Conservatives had eight, and one seat — a Halifax riding previously held by a Liberal — was vacant.
The latest polls were suggesting strong support for Liberals across the Atlantic region, but the Conservatives — led by Pierre Poilievre — were expected to hold on to some of their seats, while the New Democrats under Jagmeet Singh could be shut out again.
Pundits say Poilievre’s aggressive, populist style of leadership has been a tough sell in Atlantic Canada, where traditional Progressive Conservatives — including Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston — have largely shunned the federal Tory leader, who visited Nova Scotia only once during the campaign.
Meanwhile, Carney’s focus on dealing with the economic chaos unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump has paid dividends for the Liberals, whose approval ratings were higher in Atlantic Canada than in any other region.
04/28/25 11:59
Voters in Windsor, Ont., redirected after fire at polling station
– The Canadian Press
Voters are being redirected to a new location to cast their ballots in Windsor, Ont., after a fire closed down a recreation centre that was serving as a federal election polling station.
The Windsor fire department says crews responded to a fire on the roof of the WFCU Centre on Monday morning and everyone inside was evacuated.
The fire service says Elections Canada has moved the polling station to St. Joseph’s Catholic High School nearby.
It says the fire was under control as of 11 a.m., and a fire investigator will go to the WFCU Centre to look into the cause of the blaze.
Elections Canada was still listing the centre as a voting location in Monday’s federal election just before noon.
The elections agency did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet votes on federal election day in the riding of Beloeil-Chambly, Que.GRAHAM HUGHES/AFP/Getty Images
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet cast a ballot in Beloeil, Que. before meeting with reporters.
Mr. Blanchet says he’s not so much nervous as he is impatient for the results to start coming in later today and to see if the party meets its objectives for this election – which he wouldn’t divulge. His party went into the campaign with 33 seats.
Unlike his opponents, Mr. Blanchet has not taken to describing the federal election as being the “most consequential” and says it’s an important election like any other and should not be taken lightly.
A car enters the parking lot at a polling place on federal election day in Ottawa, Canada on Monday.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images
Burnaby Central, B.C.
The result here could help show whether the NDP have a future. Burnaby Central is a new riding, replacing Burnaby South. This was held by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Polls suggest Mr. Singh, who is the NDP candidate, is running third in the new riding as left-leaning voters coalesce behind the Liberals.
Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, Ont.
Key to any victory is the Golden Horseshoe, a riding-rich crescent that sits on Lake Ontario and includes Toronto as well as other cities. The Conservatives held Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill from 2018 to 2021. If they are to take advantage of unhappiness over living costs, immigration and a housing crisis – factors that dominated politics before U.S. President Donald Trump began threatening tariffs and annexation – the riding is a key target.
Trois-Rivieres, Que.
Any party wishing to win power must also perform well in Quebec, which has the second-largest number of seats in the House of Commons. It is the only province with its own party, Bloc Québécois, which is seeking independence for the province and whose fortunes can swing wildly. Trois-Rivieres is one of several in Quebec where three (and sometimes four parties) contend for the vote. The 2021 result was tight, with the Bloc winning by just 83 votes of the 58,110 that were cast.
Edmonton Southeast, Alta.
The Liberals have traditionally fared poorly in the western oil-producing province of Alberta, thanks to former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who introduced unpopular energy policies in the 1980s. Some of this enmity rubbed off on his son, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who at best only won a handful of Alberta seats. Now that Justin Trudeau is gone, the Liberals have a chance to repair their reputation. Ex-Liberal cabinet minister Amarjeet Sohi is running in the new riding of Edmonton Southeast, and if he wins, it will be a sign the party can succeed even in hostile territory.
Cumberland-Colchester, N.S.
The four provinces in Atlantic Canada, which contain a total of 32 seats and report their results first, often offer an early indication as to how the election might go. The region is politically volatile and results can swing broadly. The Liberals won Cumberland-Colchester by a few hundred votes in 2019 but lost it to the Conservatives in 2021.
Burlington, Ont.
This Ontario riding southwest of Toronto is the ultimate in Canadian bellwethers, having elected a legislator from the winning party for 12 consecutive elections going back to 1984.
04/28/25 11:24
Elections Canada says it’s managing long ballot with 90 candidates challenging Poilievre
– The Canadian Press
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is being challenged by 90 other candidates on the ballot.
Poilievre is in a tight race against Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, who has been waging an intense ground battle in the riding. But a protest group called the Longest Ballot Committee has convinced dozens of other candidates to register to run as Independents in Poilievre’s Ottawa-Carleton riding, in addition to the usual main party candidates.
The protest group opposes the first-past-the-post voting system and is seeking to build support for electoral reform.
Elections Canada says it has measures in place to help people vote in the Ontario riding. For example, the ballot for the Carleton electoral district is larger and has two columns with candidate names, which are listed alphabetically.
A large-print list of candidates will also be available and a braille template has been modified to fit the two-column ballot.
To maintain the integrity and security of the ballot, the agency says poll workers will be trained in a new method of folding the large ballot “so as to maintain the secrecy of the vote.”
It also says the “unusual form and size” of the ballot requires that experienced election officers be assigned to polling stations.
04/28/25 11:08
Poilievre casts his ballot at a polling station in Ottawa area
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife Anaida Poilievre make their way to cast their votes in the federal election on Monday in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre cast his ballot alongside his wife, Anaida Poilievre, at a polling station in Ottawa.
He remarked, “look at the size of the ballot” when he walked up to the voting booth. Mr. Poilievre’s riding of Carleton was targeted by a protest group filling the slate up with independent candidates to inflate the physical size of ballots and delay the count.
As he placed his ballot in the box, Mr. Poilievre told the gathered cameras: “Alright everyone, get out to vote — for a change,” echoing his slogan from the campaign.
04/28/25 11:04
From taxes to housing, here’s what each major party is promising for your finances
Election Personal Finance Platform Tracker 2025Photo illustration The globe and mail. Source images Getty Images/Getty Images
As Canadian voters head to the polls, many are thinking about how their personal finances are being affected by affordability challenges in recent years and now a global trade war.
From taxes to housing, here’s what you need to know about each party’s platform and where they stand on the issues that affect Canadians’ pocketbooks the most.
Poilievre, Carney, Singh respond to Trump comments
– Globe staff
After U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about Canada’s election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responded on X, writing, “President Trump, stay out of our election. The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box.
Canada will always be proud, sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be the 51st state.”
Liberal Leader Mark Carney also posted a video on X shortly afterward that didn’t directly mention Mr. Trump but stated: “This is Canada — and we decide what happens here.”
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh responded on X to Mr. Trump’s comments. “He doesn’t choose our future. We do,” he wrote. “Every New Democrat you send to Ottawa will stand up for our country.”
04/28/25 10:12
The system created to help homeless Canadians vote
Scott Rodger had housing in Quebec when he voted in the last federal election, but now, in Ottawa, he doesn’t. Nor does he have ID that meet Elections Canada’s requirements.Spencer Colby/The Globe and Mail
Elections Canada says it has been tackling the issue of homeless voters. “Some people face greater barriers than others when it comes to participating in elections,” Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault said in a statement. “It’s important for us to understand what those barriers are and work to reduce them.”
Homeless people who want to vote have several options. They need to present two pieces of ID, one of which can be a letter provided by an establishment that provides food, housing or social services. If they have neither, they can come to the polling station with someone who can vouch for them.
George Cicken has been staying with his mother in Vancouver since losing his home in Haida Gwaii in early 2024.
“It was a bit of a hassle getting registered but not too bad,” he said. “I got a bill with my name on it and my mother’s address, as well as an ID that I had from Haida Gwaii.”
Mr. Cicken noted the narrow margin of victory in B.C.’s provincial election last fall, saying it proved that every vote counts.
Polling stations are now open across the country as voters in British Columbia and Yukon join other Canadians heading to the polls.
04/28/25 09:47
TSX opens higher as Canada heads to polls
– Reuters
Canada’s main stock index opened higher on Monday, as investors prepared for the outcome of the general election in the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
At 9:31 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 0.16 per cent at 24,751.01 points.
04/28/25 09:32
How Indigenous groups have been working to get the vote out ahead of the federal election
– Willow Fiddler
Indigenous groups across Canada are trying through campaigns to encourage First Nations residents to cast ballots in order to have a say on issues that directly affect them. The Assembly of First Nations has also worked with Elections Canada to compile several resources for communities to assist voters, including materials in 13 Indigenous languages.
The remoteness of many Indigenous communities is a challenge to getting out the vote and it can be more difficult to hire and train election staff in these areas. But although other barriers Indigenous voters commonly face, such as proving identities and addresses, have improved since 2015 according to Elections Canada, the population is still less likely to turn out than non- Indigenous voters.
Kent McDonald hopes he will be able to vote on Monday after experiencing significant barriers in the 2021 federal election that led him to not cast a ballot.
The math and science teacher living on Little Red River Cree Nation, a semiremote Northern Alberta reserve about 800 kilometres north of Edmonton comprised of three communities, said he had planned to vote during his break at school where a polling station was supposed to be set up.
“We got to school that day and found out that no one had talked to the school about setting up a polling station there,” Mr. McDonald told The Globe and Mail.
Instead, he and members of his community of Fox Lake would have had to travel to a neighbouring community 40 kilometres away, a trip he said would involve driving through 15-centimetre mud ruts and with two-hour wait times each way for the barge that could only take two cars at a time.
Elections Canada has been working to remedy some of the problems from 2021 in Little Red River ahead of Monday’s vote, said Leanne Nyirfa, the agency’s regional media adviser for Alberta. She said the agency has been working with the Fox Lake band for several months and confirmed a polling station will be set up at the Jean-Baptiste Sewepagaham High School, where Mr. McDonald works.
Polls are now open in a majority of provinces and territories.
Voters in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Northwest Territories and Nunavut can cast their ballots for the next 12 hours.
04/28/25 09:14
Trump weighs in on election day
– The Canadian Press
U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on Canada’s election today, repeating his claim that Canada should become a U.S. state.
Mr. Trump’s tariffs and repeated threats of annexation have become a central issue ahead of today’s vote.
The president posted on his Truth Social platform that Canada could become a 51st state without “an artificially drawn line from many years ago.”
Mr. Trump says Canadians should “elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the U.S. administration will work with the new leadership of Canada.
He said there are areas for cooperation but that Mr. Trump is not happy with trade.
The president posted on his Truth Social platform that Canada could become a 51st state without “an artificially drawn line from many years ago.”
04/28/25 09:07
East to West: What matters to rural Canada in this election
It’s impossible to get a full picture of a country as big and diverse as Canada, but audio journalist Kasia Mychajlowycz set out on a road trip to ask as many people as she could: What’s the most important issue to you in this election campaign and why?
The answers ranged from affordability to health care, trust in government, reconciliation, tariffs and more. But in more than 35 interviews in a dozen places over seven provinces, people went beyond politics, retelling the joys, challenges and tragedies that make up all our lives.
From left to right: Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and co-leader of the Green Party Elizabeth May.The Canadian Press
Here’s where the leaders of Canada’s main political parties are on Election Day.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney
Mr. Carney will spend election night in Ottawa. He is expected to vote in the city on election day and will host an election night party that’s expected to begin at 9:30 p.m.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
No public events scheduled.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
Mr. Singh is scheduled to spend the day in British Columbia. He is expected to hold a campaign event at 8 a.m. in Port Moody, and will later travel to Burnaby to attend a Day of Mourning event. At 7 p.m., Singh will attend his election night event in Burnaby.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet
Mr. Blanchet is expected to spend the morning travelling around Quebec where he will meet with local candidates. He is expected to vote in Chambly, Que., around 10 a.m. Later, he is set to travel to Montreal where his party will hold an election night event at a hotel starting at 7 p.m.
Green Party Co-Leaders Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault
Ms. May is expected to spend election day in B.C., where she will cast her ballot and spend the day with local supporters. She will host her election night watch party in Victoria, which is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Mr. Pedneault will spend the day in his Montreal riding and will host an election party in Montreal starting at 8 p.m.
04/28/25 08:18
Mail-in votes are matching their pandemic peak, but snap election puts international voters on tight deadline
A eligible voter holds a voter information card after it arrived in the mail in a Carleton Place, Ont., Friday, April 11, 2025.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Leonard Belsher is his 87-year-old mother’s primary caregiver. When the federal election was called on short notice, they had already made travel plans for election day. Worried about his mother waiting in long lines at advance polls, which ended up seeing a record-breaking 7.3 million voters, he inquired about voting by mail.
Mr. Belsher, of Shawville, Que., is one of many Canadians who opted for a mail-in ballot.
Elections Canada has received 1,007,569 special ballots from voters thus far and says the tally is quickly approaching the record 1.17 million ballots received in the 2021 federal election. There are still 248,000 ballots yet to be returned, so it’s possible this election will break the pandemic high.
But the short election cycle that has more Canadians voting by mail may also be leaving the ballots of Canadians living abroad in danger of going uncounted.
A record-breaking 101,694 voting kits have been sent out to Canadians living abroad in this election, nearly double the 55,000 that were sent out in both 2019 and 2021. About 20,000 of those new international voters currently reside in the U.S.
As of Saturday, only one-third of the issued international ballots have been returned to Elections Canada – thousands fewer than were received in the previous two elections.
If the federal election were being fought in a domestic vacuum, without the casual threats of annexation and economic obliteration spewing from the White House, it would still be one for the ages.
Canada’s economy has experienced a historic bout of weak productivity and grappled with the fallout from record levels of immigration. And one must go back decades to find a housing market this unaffordable.
But, of course, this isn’t just an election battle about how to fix Canada’s homegrown challenges. U.S. President Donald Trump has fractured the global economic order and sewn unprecedented uncertainty, while his tariffs on many imports from Canada threaten investment and jobs in profound ways.
Rarely have the economic stakes been so high in a federal election.
From housing to energy, jobs, trade, productivity and Canada’s fiscal health, here are the ways Canada’s main parties are promising to safeguard the economy – and why those promises may be difficult to keep.
Futures for Canada’s main stock index were marginally lower Monday, with investors staying on the sidelines as the country heads into a federal election against the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
June futures on the S&P/TSX index were down 0.13 per cent at 6.30 a.m. ET.
Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar weakened against its U.S. counterpart.
The day range on the loonie was 71.97 US cents to 72.20 US cents in early trading. The Canadian dollar was up about 3.7 per cent against the greenback over the past month.
The U.S. dollar index, which weighs the greenback against a group of currencies, rose 0.13 per cent to 99.60.
A voting kiosk is flown across the river from Dawson City to West Dawson by helicopter so scientists working at the Eureka Weather station in the high Arctic can vote in the federal election.Gabriela Sgaga/Supplied
For the handful of scientists at the Eureka weather station in the High Arctic, voting is not a matter of trotting along to the local polling station.
Located at the top of the world, on the remote and rugged Ellesmere Island, even aircraft have trouble reaching the tiny weather base where temperatures can edge as low as -50.
So it took a military operation – with planning by three branches of the federal government and the help of a skilled Air Force pilot – to get ballots to seven Arctic weather forecasters in time for polling day.
Last week, at 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday, a Hercules military transport plane landed at the small gravel airstrip at the isolated weather station. It was only 13 below – balmy conditions for the High Arctic – and the researchers rushed out of their living quarters to collect their ballots.
They had been transported in a special sealed box, provided by Elections Canada, in a joint operation planned with precision with the federal Environment Department, which runs the weather station, and the Department of National Defence.
Election Platform guide 2025Source images The Canadian Press, Reuters, Getty Images/Custom
We compiled a comparative list for the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Bloc Québécois, Greens and the People’s Party. Here’s what you need to know about each party’s platform and where they stand on the issues that affect Canadians the most.
A sign directing people to a hall to cast their ballot at a polling station during early voting for Canada’s federal election in Montreal on April 20, 2025.Graham Hughes/Reuters
Canadians 18 and older are eligible to vote at the polling station in their riding. You can find your riding and the address of your polling station on the Elections Canada website by entering your postal code.
To vote, you can either bring photo ID or two pieces of ID – at least one with your current address. A list of acceptable forms of ID can be found here. (If you have received your voter registration card in the mail, bring that along with you.)
If you don’t have ID with you, you may declare your identity and address in writing and have someone who knows you and is assigned to your polling station vouch for you.
04/27/25 21:40
Party leaders offer condolences after deadly Vancouver festival incident
– Stephanie Levitz
Vancouver’s interim police chief is shown speaking after Saturday night’s deadly incident at the Lapu Lapu Festival, on Apr. 27, 2025.
The Globe and Mail
A pall was cast over the final day of the federal election campaign as party leaders adjusted their schedules in response to a deadly attack in Vancouver that left at least 11 people dead and many more injured.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh were at times openly emotional as they expressed horror and sadness over the attack at the Filipino community’s Lapu Lapu Festival late Saturday night.
All recalibrated the timing and tone of their final events the day before Canadians head to the polls to elect a new government.
Mr. Singh was at the festival hours before the attack occurred, and broke into tears as he told reporters Sunday morning that he couldn’t get the images of the joyful children he’d seen there out of his head.
