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Canada election: Live results from the 2025 vote – National
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Canada election: Live results from the 2025 vote – National

It is voting day in Canada. Global News will have live, real-time results in the maps and interactives on this page from all 343 ridings in Canada as people across the country are heading to the polls to cast their ballot in the 2025 federal election.Voters will elect 343 members of Parliament — five more than in the 2021 election — to serve as their representatives in Ottawa.A party needs 172 seats for a majority government. Global News will have robust coverage online and on-air beginning at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT and hosted by Dawna Friesen, along with senior national affairs correspondent Eric Sorensen and chief political correspondent David Akin, who will be breaking down real-time results from ridings across Canada.Merce...
Election day is here as Canadians cast ballots after record advance turnout – National
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Election day is here as Canadians cast ballots after record advance turnout – National

After a campaign that lasted 35 days, Canadians head to the polls Monday in a federal election punctuated by record-breaking early voter turnout, U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and his repeated attacks on the country’s sovereignty with calls to make Canada the 51st state.Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet and Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault spent the past month traversing the country vying for votes. Story continues below advertisement The Liberal party holds a four-point lead heading into Monday, according an Ipsos poll done exclusively for Global News that was released Sunday.Preliminary early voting turnout figures from Elections Cana...
Billy Ray Cyrus, Elizabeth Hurley appear to confirm relationship with photo – National
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Billy Ray Cyrus, Elizabeth Hurley appear to confirm relationship with photo – National

Billy Ray Cyrus and Elizabeth Hurley have made their relationship Instagram official. The Royals actor, 59, and the Achy Breaky Heart singer, 63, announced the news on April 20, sharing a photo showing Cyrus in bunny ears kissing Hurley on the cheek.“Happy Easter,” the caption for the photo read, posted to both of their accounts. Story continues below advertisement Hurley’s son, Damian, 23, who she shares with businessman Steve Bing, commented on the post with a red heart emoji. Damian Hurley and Liz Hurley attend the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts last month in Beverly Hills, Calif. Taylor Hill/FilmMagic On April 9, the British m...
Canada votes: Ontario prepares to play pivotal role in electing next prime minister
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Canada votes: Ontario prepares to play pivotal role in electing next prime minister

Voters across Ontario are heading to the polls to choose Canada’s next prime minister in Monday’s federal election, knowing ballots cast in their province will decide more than one-third of the country’s ridings. The 2025 Canadian election is being fought by candidates over 343 ridings, 122 of which are in Ontario. Parties of all stripes list Toronto’s seat-rich suburbs, in particular, as a key route to power.In recent elections, Ontario has delivered a significant number of Liberal MPs to the House of Commons, with the party completing near-perfect sweeps of Toronto and the surrounding suburbs.The Conservatives have traditionally performed well across rural Ontario, and the NDP has been able to rely on seats in the north and union-heavy parts of western Ontario. The Greens held Kitchener ...
Reducing salt intake a cost-effective way to boost health: Experts
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Reducing salt intake a cost-effective way to boost health: Experts

Reducing salt intake is one of the most cost-effective strategies to boost health, said experts as salt consumption in India is exceeding safe limits, contributing significantly to the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. Doctors and public health leaders called for stronger physician-led campaigns, reformulation of packaged foods, and consumer education to curb India`s rising salt crisis, at The Salt Fight 2025: Say NO to Na workshop organised by the Delhi Medical Association (DMA) and other organisations. Addressing modifiable risk factors like excess salt intake is critical to reversing the country`s non-communicable disease burden, which accounts for nearly 65 per cent of all deaths, said Dr Vinod Kumar Paul, Member, of NITI Aayog, during the event, held in the national capit...
Canada votes: Eyes on Atlantic provinces for early cues as Liberals hope to dominate
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Canada votes: Eyes on Atlantic provinces for early cues as Liberals hope to dominate

Descrease article font size Increase article font size As voters head to the polls Monday, attention is being paid to the four provinces in Atlantic Canada, which are known to offer an early indication of how elections will go. There are 32 seats in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Due to time zones, these ridings report their results first.At dissolution, 23 of those 32 seats were held by Liberal MPs. The Conservatives held eight seats.Meanwhile, there was one vacant seat in Halifax after Liberal MP Andy Fillmore stepped down to run for — and eventually win — mayor of Halifax. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current aff...
Canada election: Trump threat casting shadow over Quebec voters
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Canada election: Trump threat casting shadow over Quebec voters

As Canadians head to the polls Monday, attention is being paid to whether Quebec voters will put sovereignty on the backburner this federal election in the face of the threats from the United States. Ipsos polls conducted for Global News throughout the campaign have showed signs the province’s decades-long separatist movement might be put to the side and replaced with Canadian solidarity.The province’s electoral landscape has swung dramatically in the federal Liberals’ favour since U.S. President Donald Trump‘s turbulent return to office in January. 2:11 Canada Election 2025: Final poll in campaign shows Liberals with 4 point lead on Conservatives ...
Jacqueliene Fernandez approached for docu-series on Sukesh Chandrashekhar
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Jacqueliene Fernandez approached for docu-series on Sukesh Chandrashekhar

In 2021, news about Jacqueliene Fernandez dating alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar went viral. While she denied it, he confirmed the relationship and flaunted the extravagant gifts he adorned her with. After his arrest in 2021, he sent her a love letter on her birthday. As per industry insiders, a leading streamer has taken an interest in the subject and is planning a docu-series on Chandrashekhar. A source informs, “The makers want to go to the alleged lottery scam origins to the jaw-dropping luxury gift extortion that made headlines.” According to sources, an OTT giant has already reached out to Fernandez as they find her “insights are critical.” “She is the only star who can speak firsthand about what really went down. Her candour could make or break the storytelling.” The actor, fo...
Oura’s AI Chatbot Really Makes You Think—About Yourself
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Oura’s AI Chatbot Really Makes You Think—About Yourself

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Lots of apps are getting built-in AI features these days, and they’re often disappointing. They’ll summarize (sometimes incorrectly) the same data that’s already available in charts or graphs elsewhere in the app. But the AI advisor that was recently added to the Oura ring's app takes a different strategy, one that I’ve come to appreciate over the past few weeks since its launch. Instead of just reporting data, it asks questions. It asks you to do a little analysis, a little introspection. And I think Oura is really onto something here. Some of the questions the Oura Advisor has asked meI’ll admit that, at first, I was interested in what the Advisor could tell me. Anytime I asked it a question, it would give an ans...
Scientists find cellular culprit behind age-related abdominal fat
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Scientists find cellular culprit behind age-related abdominal fat

A team of US researchers has uncovered the cellular culprit behind age-related abdominal fat, providing new insights into why our midsections widen with middle age.  Published in the journal Science, the findings suggest a novel target for future therapies to prevent belly flab and extend our healthy lifespans. Preclinical research by City of Hope, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organisations in the US, has done this research. “People often lose muscle and gain body fat as they age — even when their body weight remains the same,” said Qiong (Annabel) Wang, an associate professor of molecular and cellular endocrinology at City of Hope’s Arthur Riggs Diabetes and Metabolism Research Institute.  “We discovered aging triggers the arrival of a new type of...