NANAIMO - It took a few extra days, but Nanaimo-Ladysmith officially has a new Member of Parliament. NDP candidate Lisa Marie Barron has won her first term in federal politics after holding off a close challenge from Conservative Tamara Kronis. Barron claimed 19,896 votes, beating Kronis' 18,615. The pair finished ahea...

NANAIMO - The expert predictions of a tight, three-way race in Nanaimo-Ladysmith have come to fruition.Conservative Tamara Kronis and NDP Lisa Marie Barron remained separated by only a handful of votes through counting on Monday, Sept. 20 with incumbent Green Paul Manly close behind. With upwards of 8,800 mail-in ballo...

NANAIMO - The polls have officially closed and counting is underway across the country.It's unlikely however election night will provide a winner federally, or even in some key local ridings such as Nanaimo-Ladysmith.Follow NanaimoNewsNOW all night and in the days to come for complete local reaction as results come in....

NANAIMO - Polls have opened on general voting day to elect the 44th Canadian Parliament.While the national race appears to be neck and neck between Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and Conservative leader Erin O'Toole, polls in the lead-up to voting day project the Nanaimo-Ladysmith contest to be a three horse race.Incumb...

NANAIMO - A local Green Party of Canada campaign manager is incensed with what he calls multiple credibility issues related to an NDP-friendly ad.Ilan Goldenblatt, who's representing Nanaimo-Ladysmith incumbent MP Paul Manly, filed an official complaint for what he called flagrant misleading messaging portrayed by the ...

NANAIMO - A wide range of topics were offered up for debate among the five candidates in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith riding.The Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce hosted a pre-election debate on Wednesday, Sept. 15 with Lisa-Marie Barron (NDP), Michelle Corfield (LIB), Tamara Kronis (CON), Paul Manly (GRN) and Stephen Welton (PPC) ...

NANAIMO - Candidates vying to be the next Member of Parliament for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith riding will have their opportunity to impress voters.A virtual all-candidates forum hosted by the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce taking place Wednesday, Sept. 15 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Vancouver Island conference Centre will ...

NANAIMO - Canadians will head back to the polls on Sept. 20 to elect a new federal government. It will also mark the third vote in just over two years for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith riding following the Spring 2019 by-election and Fall 2019 general election.NanaimoNewsNOW asked all five candidates in the riding a series of ...

NANAIMO - Canadians will head back to the polls on Sept. 20 to elect a new federal government. It will also mark the third vote in just over two years for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith riding following the Spring 2019 by-election and Fall 2019 general election.NanaimoNewsNOW asked all five candidates in the riding a series of ...

OTTAWA - Monday's federal election put a damper on a traditional form of watching the returns with the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the number of viewing parties across the country. Large indoor gatherings were for the most part either less appealing, or off-limits, due to the virus and the higher-than-average number of ...

MONTREAL - Early election results have the Liberals leading in Quebec after a race dominated by frequent appeals to Quebec nationalism. Shortly after 11 p.m., about 90 minutes after polls closed, the Liberals were elected or leading in 36 ridings in the province, while the Bloc was elected or leading in 29. The Liberal...

The People's Party of Canada, led by the outspoken Maxime Bernier, is looking to turn growing support into ballot-box success this evening. Opinion polls have consistently shown party support hovering at five per cent or higher during the federal campaign, even though Bernier was excluded from national leaders' debates...

VANCOUVER - Polls have closed in British Columbia and Yukon, marking the end of voting across the country. Yukon's chief medical health officer Dr. Brendan Hanley is on leave to run for the Liberals to replace Larry Bagnell, who spent two decades as the territory's Liberal MP. While many ridings in B.C. have remained c...

HALIFAX - Voters in Atlantic Canada loosened Justin Trudeau's grip on the region Monday by delivering a handful of new seats to the Conservatives, signalling a mild rebuke of the Liberal leader's decision to call an election during the pandemic's fourth wave. In the six years since Trudeau won a majority government in ...

MONTREAL - Thirty-six days after his fateful decision to trigger a federal election, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau saw some early warning signs Monday night as results began to roll in for Canada's 44th election. He lost a cabinet minister in Bernadette Jordan after the Liberal-held South Shore-St. Margarets riding in ...

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. A clutch of close-run ridings, where mail-in ballots could prove crucial to the result, may have to wait days for a wi...

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 Canada says almost 6.8 million people voted early, most of them at advanced polls over a week ago, and the rest through speci...

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 open. Conservatives have been ramping up their warnings in recent days against voters going over to Maxime Bernier's more...

MONTREAL - Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François 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. He began his eleventh-hour push on familiar turf, campaigning in his adopted home city of Shawin...

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 remain on the offensive during a busy final day in the Lower Mainland, visiting ridings held by Liberals and Conservative...

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 downs of this election campaign to see how they made up their minds. LEDON WELLON, MOUNT PEARL, N.L. Reflections on the c...

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 attempt at damage control. Two weeks ago, Steven Cotter apologized on Facebook for earlier posts he made about Shariah law a...

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 from forming government. Trudeau told some 300 supporters at an outdoor rally in Montreal that progressive voters no lon...

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 turnouts in the country - thanks to a part-time election official who flew in their ballots by helicopter. Vlasta Booth,...

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 politician of the winning party. Liberal incumbent Terry Duguid took the seat in 2015 after Rod Bruinooge had held the riding...

OTTAWA - Candidates are making their final appeals to voters today ahead of tomorrow's federal election. The three main party leaders have packed schedules as they try to reach as much of the electorate as possible. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has a series of virtual and in-person events planned in at least six pro...

VICTORIA - Green Party Leader Annamie Paul broke with her tradition throughout the federal election campaign and travelled to British Columbia Saturday, marking her first visit to the only region where her party held seats before Parliament was dissolved. Paul's trip to Vancouver Island was a departure from her approac...

RICHMOND HILL, Ont. - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Saturday that he remains open to getting rid of Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system if his party is re-elected, but added that it's not a priority since there's no consensus on the issue. Trudeau said, however, that he would not favour proportional repr...

SASKATOON - Jagmeet Singh criticized the COVID-19 pandemic responses of Saskatchewan and Alberta's provincial governments as the federal NDP campaign focused on Conservative-held seats in the prairie provinces. Singh says people across the prairies are being hit extra hard by the fourth wave of the pandemic because the...

OTTAWA - A campaign that started with anger over Justin Trudeau's decision to call an election in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is ending amid anger over conservative premiers' handling of the health crisis. The first wave of discontent appears to have sunk Trudeau's hopes for a Liberal majority and even put in je...

LONDON, Ont. - Dareen Shilbayeh can't stop herself from looking over her shoulder while out in public. The London, Ont., resident who wears a hijab says she's been worried she'll be targeted because of her faith ever since a Muslim family was killed in the city this summer. "Every corner I take, even at the mall...

OTTAWA - A young two-spirit Métis leader hopes he can deliver one of the biggest upsets of the election campaign, if he can persuade apathetic voters to head to the polls Monday. NDP candidate Blake Desjarlais has started a dynamic voter turnout drive to persuade thousands of Edmonton residents to register. The...

The Gaspésie region in eastern Quebec is best known to outsiders for its charming villages, outdoor recreation opportunities and panoramic views of the St. Lawrence River, but it could also become contested territory on election day. The Gaspesie-Les Iles-de-la-Madeleine riding narrowly remained Liberal in 2019,...