CP Election

Election officials expect most postal votes to be counted by Wednesday

OTTAWA - The final results of the federal election may not be known until Wednesday, election officials have warned, because of almost one million mail-in ballots that will not be opened until Tuesday...

Sep 20, 2021

Canadians heading to the polls to choose next federal government

OTTAWA - Canada's first-ever pandemic election culminates today as Canadians from coast-to-coast go to the polls to choose the 338 members of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons. Elections Canad...

Sep 20, 2021

'Don't split the vote by voting PPC,' O'Toole tells supporters on final campaign day

TORONTO - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole delivered his starkest plea yet for people not to split the vote on the right by picking the People's Party of Canada on what was his last day before polls o...

Sep 19, 2021

Bloc Québécois leader makes final stop in undecided ridings, hoping to recover seats

MONTREAL - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet ended his final day of the federal election campaign on Sunday in Quebec ridings he hopes to wrest from his opponents ahead of Monday's election. H...

Sep 19, 2021

Singh vows to fight for people even if there's a 'Groundhog Day' minority government

BURNABY, B.C. - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made a final push for votes in British Columbia by saying his party will fight for people no matter what happens during Monday's election. The New Democrats re...

Sep 19, 2021

The Undecideds: How three Canadian voters made their choice in the election

Canadians are set to go to the polls Monday, but not everyone has always known what they were going to do when they got there. The Canadian Press followed three undecided voters through the ups and do...

Sep 19, 2021

Imams ask Conservative candidate to quit over poor follow-up on apology for posts

ANTIGONISH, N.S. - The Canadian Council of Imams says the Conservative candidate in Nova Scotia's Central Nova riding must resign because his apology for Islamophobic media posts was an insincere atte...

Sep 19, 2021

Trudeau makes last-minute appeal to progressive voters on final campaign day

MONTREAL - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau kicked off the final day of the federal election campaign by telling progressive voters that his party is the best option to stop Erin O'Toole's Conservatives ...

Sep 19, 2021

Election official, who runs chocolate shop, flies ballot box to 27 B.C. lighthouses.

OTTAWA - They lead solitary lives, isolated for months on tiny islets and craggy ocean bluffs. Yet despite their remote locations, Canada's reclusive lighthouse keepers have one of the highest voter t...

Sep 19, 2021

Winnipeg South has a history of siding with winners in federal elections

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg South This large suburban area is a true bellwether riding. Since its reincarnation in 1988 (it had been dissolved into parts of two ridings in 1979), it has always elected a polit...

Sep 19, 2021