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OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s Liberal party will form the next federal government, Postmedia projects, with a historic comeback Monday that gives the party a rare fourth consecutive term.
But as of 2 a.m. ET Tuesday, it was still unclear if it would be a minority or a slim majority government. At the time, Liberals led in 167 ridings compared to the Conservatives’ 145, the Bloc Québécois’ 23, the NDP’s 7 and the Green Party’s one. A majority government requires 172 seats.
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives made the biggest gain compared to 2021 (when they won 119 seats). But it was not...
April 28, 2025 - 11:29 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
MARKHAM, Ont.
— Lionel Loganathan says he has probably spoken more Tamil in the past two-and-half years than he has his entire life.
Seated in his campaign office, the Conservative candidate describes how his parents’ story of immigrating from Sri Lanka in the 1980s makes his upbringing like the thousands of others who call Markham, and more specifically the riding of Markham-Thornhill, home.
“This has actually helped me connect back...
April 26, 2025 - 09:39 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
OTTAWA — If this Canadian election is the most important in a generation, why do the two main parties seem to be running less public — or at least lower profile — campaigns?
Or, as some party officials insist, is it just that shaking hands, kissing babies, countless campaign stops and the other greatest hits from the past are no longer the smartest strategies?
With just a few days to go before Canadians head to the polls, Liberal Leader Mark Carney and the Conservatives’ Pierre Poilievre seem to be less focused on staying in the public’s eye, at least in comparison with previous...
April 26, 2025 - 04:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post
DELTA, B.C. — First-time Conservative candidate Jessy Sahota hopes to punch his ticket to the notoriously quarrelsome House of Commons in next Monday’s election, but he could easily have ended up in a much different arena of combat.
Sahota, a standout amateur heavyweight wrestler, was in Orlando, Fla., for a tryout with NXT, the developmental brand of pro wrestling juggernaut WWE, in March 2020, just as COVID-19 triggered global lockdowns.
“We’d just made it to NXT’s performance centre when management told us we had to leave because they needed the space for the main roster,” recalls...
April 22, 2025 - 04:00 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
WHITBY, ONT. — On
this week’s Ivison video
, regular guest Eugene Lang referred to “the trifecta — or what Van Morrison
would call The Great...
April 19, 2025 - 12:57 | John Ivison | National Post
OTTAWA — A Mark Carney-led government will spend $130 billion on new measures over the next four years, with no timeline to balance the federal budget, according to the costed Liberal platform released on Saturday.
Carney said at a Saturday morning announcement in Whitby, Ont., that keeping the spending taps open was part of standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump.
“It’s said there are no atheists in foxholes, there should be no libertarians in a crisis,” said Carney.
“In a crisis… the private sector retreats and government needs to step up.”
Big-ticket items include $18...
April 19, 2025 - 09:51 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
