Ottawa voters head to the polling station after months of political turmoil
Leyland Secco
For decades, the country’s capital has encouraged more political turbulence than most can remember for the internesin feud, the threat to Canada’s sovereignty and the political revival.
But perhaps more devastating for Ottawa residents was the cruelty of winter that was drawn out, with the squalls of snow in the spring and the permanently grey skies.
And even on the day the party leaders charged the most important elections of their generation, many voters in Ottawa looked more excited about the weather.
On a modest and pleasant spring day when many celebrate the return of the Sun, liberal leader Mark Carney voted for the Ottawa area where he had lived for the past decade, walking with his family to a nearby polling station, past the daffodils and carefully flowering trees.
Conservative leader Pierre Polyavere also voted in Ottawa with his family. There he is trying to protect the district he held for his final seven terms.
However, in protest of the country’s “first past of the post” electoral system, activists added 90 names to the vote.
Voted-rich provinces, Ontario and neighboring Quebec, promise to be the battlefields where the parties prefer or seek to argue against the victory of the liberals.
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Updated with 17.57 EDT
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Prime Minister and Liberal leader Mark Carney reminds voters that if they are in line when the votes approach, they can vote.
“Your vote is important,” Carney wrote in X’s post.
I’m waiting to register to vote at a Canadian federal election polling station in Toronto, Ontario. Photo: Arlyn McAdorey/Reutersshare
Updated on 19.20 EDT
First vote closes
Voting is currently closed in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The initial results are expected to be available soon.
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Updated with 19.27 EDT
How Trump moistened Quebec’s separatist movement – For now
Leyland Secco
It was midnight that block quebekoa realized that he had achieved something unlikely. For weeks, the French-speaking segregation party in Canada had been campaigning hard to steal Montreal’s constituency held by the Liberal Party.
When the vote trickle finally stopped that September evening, Brock’s Louis Philippe Sovee won with a narrow margin of 200 votes.
Then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was disciplined by losses and admitted that his Liberal Party had “a lot to do.” The defeat reflects the party of governance in the ruins and the leader’s lack of grip on power. And for the faithful party, Bullock’s victory reflected excitement that the separatist movement was once again dominant.
Six months later, the fierce days of Brock’s growing popularity are over. Donald Trump’s efforts to destroy his country’s relationship with Canada have led to a dramatic re-editing of loyalty, and Canada’s pride has swelled into washing regional differences.
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Updated with 18.40 EDT
What do the polls say?
Until February, conservatives were leading the Liberal Party by 25 points.
Pollers gave Tories a 99% chance of victory if the election was called as one of the largest parliamentary majority in decades.
But Donald Trump’s aggressive stance towards Canada has fought over election interests. The dominant lead of the Conservative Party has disappeared and now they find themselves ousted in the Twilight of the campaign.
Of the 12 Canadian voting companies, all those looking at voters show liberals who lead to the extent that the majority of governments are most likely outcomes.
Mathematics appears even more disastrous for conservatives, with liberals enjoying domain leads in the country’s most vote-rich region.
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Only one Canadian adult is legally prohibited from voting from today’s federal elections. Stephen Perla is the country’s chief election officer and Canada’s election officer.
According to Election Canada:
The Chief Election Officer is responsible for managing elections, referendums, and other important aspects of the election system.
Perrault was appointed to the Post in 2018.
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Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien predicts that the Liberals will beat the majority government after tonight’s polls.
Cletien, 91, expects to “celebrate the Liberal majority government” at a rally of the Ottawa Centre liberal incumbent, Yasir Nakvi, a member of the Ottawa Centre, a Canadian press reported.
“Monday will be a liberal sunshine,” he said with cheers.
Chrétien led three majority liberal governments between 1993 and 2003, campaigning for the party in 30 constituencies across the country as the party was about to match the 1993 landslide victory, or even the solar eclipse.
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Ottawa voters head to the polling station after months of political turmoil
Leyland Secco
For decades, the country’s capital has encouraged more political turbulence than most can remember for the internesin feud, the threat to Canada’s sovereignty and the political revival.
But perhaps more devastating for Ottawa residents was the cruelty of winter that was drawn out, with the squalls of snow in the spring and the permanently grey skies.
And even on the day the party leaders charged the most important elections of their generation, many voters in Ottawa looked more excited about the weather.
On a modest and pleasant spring day when many celebrate the return of the Sun, liberal leader Mark Carney voted for the Ottawa area where he had lived for the past decade, walking with his family to a nearby polling station, past the daffodils and carefully flowering trees.
Conservative leader Pierre Polyavere also voted in Ottawa with his family. There he is trying to protect the district he held for his final seven terms.
However, in protest of the country’s “first past of the post” electoral system, activists added 90 names to the vote.
Voted-rich provinces, Ontario and neighboring Quebec, promise to be the battlefields where the parties prefer or seek to argue against the victory of the liberals.
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Updated with 17.57 EDT
Election Day in Canada will be in mourning after 11 people were killed and dozens of others were injured when drivers plowed cars into crowds at a Vancouver street festival on Saturday night.
The festival, known as Lapu-Lapu Day, is also widely celebrated in the Philippines, and is also honored by Datu Lapu-Lapu, the Filipino chief who defeated the Spanish army in 1521.
Much of Canada has set aside time to visit makeshift memorials not only today but also to pay tribute to the victims.
Mourners leave flowers in commemoration for victims of a car driving through a crowd that killed multiple people in Vancouver, British Columbia. Photo: Rich Ram/Futon visits a memorial in between the scenes where the car drove into the crowd during the Lapu Lapu Festival. Photo: Andrew Chin/Getty Imagespeople visits the makeshift monument. Photo: Andrew Chin/Getty Imageshare
Updated with 17.15 EDT
Canada’s Public and Private Workers (PPWC), a British Columbia-based trade union, urged people to “go outside and vote” as they say the rights of Canadian workers are “under threat.”
“Large corporations and wealthy elites are working harder than ever to influence policy in their favor, at the expense of working families,” the statement said. “When we remain silent, we risk losing the profits we’ve fought hard to achieve. If we act, we can elect leaders who invest in social services and good pay jobs, strengthen labor laws, tackle the climate crisis, and ensure the dignity of all workers.
“This election is too much of a stake to sit in this election.”
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Updated with 16.41 EDT
Prime Minister Mark Kearney has posted a hockey-themed campaign video on social media. This includes hockey references that describe players using their elbows to protect themselves, such as using the phrase “Elbows Up,” and now the pro-Canadian sovereignty slogan, “I’ll leave everything on the ice today.”
He also included a video featuring actor Mike Myers on the ice hockey rink.
“Elbow up!” Mark Carney’s message to Mike Myers and Canada and Trump. Photo: YouTubeshare
Updated with 17.07 EDT
