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OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh said he was stepping down as NDP leader on Monday night after suffering a resounding defeat on election night, losing his own seat and seeing his party reduced to what would likely be a single-digit seat count.
When an emotional Singh took the stage to speak to a crowd of supporters in Burnaby, B.C. he was in third place in his riding with less than 20 per cent of the vote, trailing both the Conservative and Liberal candidate.
The NDP also looked likely to lose its party status on Monday after leading in only seven seats across the country by the time Singh...
April 29, 2025 - 00:42 | Stuart Thomson | National Post
OTTAWA — Social media on election day can be the Wild West, with the tumbleweeds of misinformation blowing in left and right. Luckily, there’s a new sheriff in town: the Elections Canada X account.
After a day of posting infographics telling people how and when to vote, the social media managers hopped onto X to respond to various complaints and inquiries. These ranged from complaints about poll workers asking voters who they voted for, to claims that other workers were stealing ballots. Elections Canada was quick to shoot down the latter allegation.
Hi. We use empty ballot boxes to...
April 28, 2025 - 22:01 | National Post | National Post
OTTAWA
—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre signaled early Tuesday that he intends to stay on as party leader, touting the gains the party made in an election he ultimately lost.
Speaking shortly before 1 a.m. ET, Poilievre did so before the results had yet to be finalized in his own riding of Carleton, which turned out to be a closer-than-expected fight against Liberal challenger, Bruce Fanjoy.
As of around 1:45 a.m. ET, Elections...
April 28, 2025 - 15:49 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised to “govern for all Canadians” after his party was chosen to serve a fourth consecutive mandate, in a historic comeback for a party that seemed destined to be swept from most of the electoral map just a few months ago.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Carney took the stage to pronounce a victory speech with a particular focus on humility and unity, given that he will likely be leading a minority government. His government was projected to be a few seats short of the 172 seats necessary to form a majority government.
“While many have...
April 28, 2025 - 11:40 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
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
