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Pierre Poilievre has spent the last two years demanding change. But over the course of the 36-day federal election campaign, Poilievre showed he wasn’t capable of changing himself.After a wild night of changing fortunes, the Liberals under Prime Minister Mark Carney were projected to win a fourth-straight mandate despite starting 2025 on life support.At the Conservatives’ election night event at a conference centre along Ottawa’s Rideau Canal, early optimism at the party’s surprising strength in Atlantic Canada turned to deflation around 10 p.m. when Global, CTV and CBC called a Liberal victory. The sparsely attended conference room went quiet, as supporters followed along poll-by-poll on big screens flanking a Conservative “C.”As Monday night slouched toward Tuesday morning, emotions sees...

After a projected win for Liberals, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre addressed supporters in Ottawa Tuesday morning, suggesting he has no plans to step down as party leader. While votes are still being tallied in some parts of the country, it is unclear as of 1:37 a.m. Eastern on April 29 whether the Liberals will form a majority or minority government.“It will be an honour to continue to fight for you and be a champion for your cause as we go forward,” Poilievre said to a cheering crowd.“I would like to congratulate Prime Minister Carney on leading this minority government. We will have plenty of opportunity to debate and disagree, but tonight we come together as Canadians.”Here is the transcript of Poilievre’s remarks.*** Story continues below advertisement ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney, projected to form the next federal government, spoke to an excited crowd in Ottawa on early Tuesday morning. During his victory speech, Carney promised to “think big” and lead a government that represents all Canadians. He acknowledged that while millions of Canadians didn’t vote for him, he would “always do [his] best to represent everyone who calls Canada home.”While votes are still being tallied in some parts of the country, it is unclear as of 2:37 a.m. Eastern on April 29 whether the Liberals will form a majority or minority government.Here is the transcript of Carney’s remarks.*** I have a question. Who’s ready? Who’s ready to stand up for Canada with me? And who’s ready? Who’s ready to build Canada strong? Okay, we got that settled. That’s good. S...

Alberta remained solidly Conservative blue in Monday’s federal election, dominating in all but a handful of ridings while bucking the national trend that saw Mark Carney’s Liberals returned for a fourth term. In smaller centres and rural areas, Conservatives were elected and re-elected, many in landslide numbers, including Garnett Genuis in Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, Shannon Stubbs in Lakeland, Michelle Rempel Garner in Calgary Nose Hill, Rachael Thomas in Lethbridge and John Barlow in Foothills.As of 12 a.m. Tuesday, Global News was projecting Conservative wins in 32 of the province’s 37 ridings.In Calgary, George Chahal made history in 2021, becoming the first Liberal to win a seat in Parliament from the southern Alberta city since 1968. Early Tuesday however, he was trailing to Co...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May has been re-elected in her Vancouver Island seat of Saanich-Gulf Islands. May fended off challenges from Liberal David Beckham and Conservative Cathie Ounsted, while the NDP’s Colin Plant placed a distant fourth.May credited her win to her campaign’s ground game, but said it was an uphill battle amid intense media speculation she would lose the race.“It developed a momentum based on a rumour, and it became a very hard thing to fight,” he said.“And the reason we were successful here … Greens win, and we’ve always seen this from the devotion and the commitment of volunteers.”May won the riding handily in 2021 with 37.6 per cent of the vote, compared to 22....

Mark Carney has done the unthinkable. With little more than a month’s experience as a politician under his belt, the career bureaucrat brought a flatlining Liberal Party back from the brink and, on Monday night, was projected to win the most extraordinary election in Canada’s recent history.Not that you’d know it from the crowd size at Liberal Party headquarters — Lansdowne Park’s TD Place — as votes began streaming in. At about 10.15pm on Monday night, a raucous applause erupted from a modest crowd assembled on the arena floor when the major media outlets projected a Carney win. But up until about 9.30pm, the cavernous arena was completely devoid of anyone but journalists and security; Liberal supporters were out canvassing until the minute the polls closed.As of midnight, it is still unc...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Liberal Leader Mark Carney is projected by Global News to win his Ottawa riding of Nepean in Monday’s federal election, gaining a seat in the House of Commons for the first time. Global News is projecting the Liberals under Carney will form government, giving the party their fourth mandate and keeping Carney in the Prime Minister’s Office.However, it is not clear at this time whether the Liberals will form a majority or minority government. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Carney, the former governor of the Bank ...

The first polls in Canada’s federal election have closed in Newfoundland and Labrador as millions of Canadians cast their ballot in the 2025 federal general election.To watch as the live results of the election roll in, click here.Newfoundland and Labrador was the first province where polls closed on Monday at 8:30 p.m. local time (7 p.m. Eastern or 4 p.m. Pacific time).  Liberal Leader Mark Carney casts his vote in Ottawa on Monday, April 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Election workers count special ballots, ballots cast by Canadians outside their ridings, at the Elections Canada Distribution Centre on the day of the federal election, in Ottawa, on Monday, ...