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National Observer
25-04-2025
- Politics
- National Observer
Poilievre campaigns in Conservative-safe ridings as election nears
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning in what polls suggest are Conservative-safe ridings today as election day approaches. Poilievre is set to begin his day in Saskatoon, where he will hold a press conference, before holding a rally in Nanoose Bay, BC, in the evening. Recent polls suggest that ridings in both Saskatoon and the Nanaimo area, which includes Nanoose Bay, are leaning Conservative. Liberal Leader Mark Carney has a busy day in Ontario, beginning with a press conference and visiting a small business in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. He is later set to participate in the virtual Assembly of First Nations forum, meet with community members in Georgetown, hold a meet and greet in Cambridge and hold a rally in London. Polls suggest that most ridings in Ontario are leaning Liberal, though two ridings in the London area and the riding of Sault Ste. Marie—Algoma are leaning Conservative. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will be campaigning in Liberal-leaning ridings in Toronto, Hamilton and London today. The Liberals are widely seen to be leading in the polls, with the Conservatives in second place and the Bloc Québécois, NDP and Greens trailing behind. Canadians will choose their next government on Monday.
Toronto Sun
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
Poilievre campaigning in Conservative-safe ridings as election nears
Published Apr 25, 2025 • 1 minute read Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre gestures after speaking during a federal election campaign stop in Montréal-Est, Que., Friday, April 18, 2025. Photo by Christopher Katsarov / THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning in what polls suggest are Conservative-safe ridings today as election day approaches. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Poilievre is set to begin his day in Saskatoon, where he will hold a press conference, before holding a rally in Nanoose Bay, B.C., in the evening. Recent polls suggest that ridings in both Saskatoon and the Nanaimo area, which includes Nanoose Bay, are leaning Conservative. Liberal Leader Mark Carney has a busy day in Ontario, beginning with a press conference and visiting a small business in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. He is later set to participate in the virtual Assembly of First Nations forum, meet with community members in Georgetown, hold a meet and greet in Cambridge and hold a rally in London. Polls suggest that most ridings in Ontario are leaning Liberal, though two ridings in the London area and the riding of Sault Ste. Marie_Algoma are leaning Conservative. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will be campaigning in Liberal-leaning ridings in Toronto, Hamilton and London today. The Liberals are widely seen to be leading in the polls, with the Conservatives in second place and the Bloc Quebecois, NDP and Greens trailing behind. Canadians will choose their next government on Monday. Canada Sunshine Girls Sunshine Girls Toronto Maple Leafs Crime
Winnipeg Free Press
25-04-2025
- Health
- Winnipeg Free Press
In the news today: Poilievre campaigning in Conservative-safe ridings
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Poilievre campaigning in Conservative-safe ridings Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning in what polls suggest are Conservative-safe ridings today as election day approaches. Poilievre is set to begin his day in Saskatoon, where he will hold a press conference, before holding a rally in Nanoose Bay, B.C., in the evening. Recent polls suggest that ridings in both Saskatoon and the Nanaimo area, which includes Nanoose Bay, are leaning Conservative. Liberal Leader Mark Carney has a busy day in Ontario, beginning with a press conference and visiting a small business in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will be campaigning in Liberal-leaning ridings in Toronto, Hamilton and London today. Here's what else we're watching… Canadians rate U.S. relations on par with Russia Canadians say their relations with Washington are just as bad as ties with Moscow, according to polling that suggests an openness to improving links with China and especially Mexico. Just 16 per cent of Canadians polled by Leger say Canada has a good relationship with the U.S., compared to 15 per cent for ties with Russia. Meanwhile, 36 per cent of Canadians say Ottawa has a good relationship with Beijing, while the number ranks higher than 75 per cent for ties with Mexico, the European Union and the U.K. 'When Canadians give their relationship with the United States such a really horrible evaluation, it's largely attributable to our expectations about that relationship, which are generally considerably better' than the current situation, said Jack Jedwab, president and CEO of the Association for Canadian Studies. Leger Marketing surveyed 1,603 people from April 17 to 19 for the Association for Canadian Studies. It can not be assigned a margin of error because it was a panel survey. Transplant, cancer patients fear measles exposure Laurie Miller, a 59-year-old heart transplant patient exposed to measles in Stratford, Ont., says her story speaks to the risks people who are immunocompromised face during an outbreak. She brought her husband to the emergency room in mid-March after an all-terrain vehicle accident. Their local public health unit called a few days later saying a patient with measles had been in the emergency room too. Miller was at the hair salon she works at in a retirement home when she got the call. Though she's born before 1970, a cohort Health Canada says likely acquired natural immunity to measles, the public health official told her to leave immediately and quarantine at home. Her public health unit Huron Perth has seen more than 120 cases since an outbreak began in October. Public Health Ontario said Thursday the total number of cases reported in the province has surpassed 1,000, with 95 new cases since last week. Alberta's case count was 122 as of Wednesday, with the province noting 14 were 'known to be communicable,' while Quebec declared its outbreak over earlier this week. Bay expected to begin liquidation of final stores Hudson's Bay is expected to start liquidating its final six stores today. A court filing made earlier in the week by a financial adviser to the beleaguered department store says the selloff will begin because there is a 'low probability' that the company will find a buyer for its remaining locations. Those locations due to begin liquidation include the flagship on Yonge Street in Toronto, as well as a location in the city's Yorkdale mall and another farther north in Hillcrest Mall in Richmond Hill, Ont. The remaining three span downtown Montreal, the Carrefour Laval mall and Pointe-Claire, Que. One Saks Fifth Avenue store is also being added to the liquidation sales. Hudson's Bay received court permission last month to liquidate 90 of its 96 Bay, Saks and Saks Off Fifth stores by mid-June, while it hunts for investors or buyers that could restructure or maintain the business. How to watch Pope Francis's funeral in Canada During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. Mourners are expected to gather for Pope Francis's funeral at St. Peter's Square on Saturday, following his death on Monday at the age of 88. The Vatican says the ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. local time, which is 4 a.m. ET. That means Canadians will need to set their alarms extra early to catch it live. The funeral for the first Latin American pontiff is expected to bring international leaders along with cardinals, archbishops and priests from across the globe to the Vatican. Gov. Gen. Mary Simon will represent Canada at the ceremony, as Prime Minister Mark Carney campaigns in the final leg of the federal election. This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 25, 2025.
CBC
16-04-2025
- Politics
- CBC
2 B.C. Interior ridings become battlegrounds as Liberals and Conservatives vie for gains
This is the first in a series of regional features focusing on issues and ridings in B.C. that could prove critical to the outcome of the federal election on April 28. Speaking to a pumped-up crowd at a warehouse in B.C.'s Interior, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre shared a joke. "The Okanagan is the best part of Alberta," he quipped, laughing along with his supporters who were packed in to see him speak in the community of Penticton, about an hour's drive south of Kelowna, on April 5. Looking at more than 30 years of election results, though, his point is clear: people in B.C.'s Interior tend to vote for right-leaning parties, more in line with their eastern neighbours than their provincial counterparts in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. There have been exceptions over the years, including Penticton, which has been represented by the NDP since 2015. But with polls indicating a widespread collapse in support for the New Democrats, Poilievre is touching down in B.C.-based ridings held by the NDP in an effort to complete a blue sweep of the province outside of its southwest corner. WATCH Poilievre works the crowd in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley: Poilievre draws big crowds in B.C.'s Interior 9 days ago Duration 2:10 His efforts, though, may be spoiled by another potential change, this one in Kelowna, the largest city and only metro area in the B.C. Interior. That's where Liberal candidate Stephen Fuhr senses a chance for victory which, if he pulls it off, would be a repeat of his shock 2015 win when he unseated the Conservative incumbent to become the first, and, so far, only Liberal MP elected in the B.C. Interior in 50 years — and a potential bellwether for the election race nationwide. Longtime Liberal lockout in question "Three weeks ago, this was a Conservative-safe riding. It is now a toss-up," Fuhr said, referring to the electoral district of Kelowna, which has recently been renamed and reconfigured to include most of the city of roughly 150,000 people, including the downtown core. Dave Korzinski, a Kelowna-based research director at the Angus Reid Institute, said while he cautions at drawing too many conclusions from riding-level data on national campaigns, there are indications that the race in Kelowna is representative of a countrywide trend which sees voters making a choice between either the Liberals or the Conservatives, while other parties fade into the background — a reversal of previous decades where the regional race is often between the Conservatives and NDP. Speaking specifically to Kelowna, he said the fast-growing city is getting younger, a trend which has tended to favour parties other than the Conservatives. The Liberals have also laid some groundwork in the region, hosting a caucus retreat there in 2019, and Carney briefly touched down in February to meet supporters during his bid for the leadership of the party. Korzinski said most projections give the Liberal and Conservative candidates roughly even chances of winning in Kelowna as the election coalesces around the issue of who can best deal with U.S. President Donald Trump. Knocking on doors, Fuhr has drawn the same conclusion, saying people are telling him they're ready to put "country over party," which is leading to pickups from voters who might otherwise lean NDP, Green or even Conservative. Among those people is Fuhr himself, who says that for most of his life he had dutifully voted for centre-right parties, a practice he attributes to the social circles he had growing up in Alberta. But by 2015, he says, people had begun to sour on Stephen Harper's leadership and were ready for a change. The sentiment ran deep enough in Kelowna that the local Green candidate dropped out of the race and endorsed Fuhr as the best way to defeat the Conservatives, providing an upset and giving Fuhr a seat in Parliament. The honeymoon didn't last, though. Fuhr says that when he went door-knocking again during the election of 2019, he once again heard from voters who were tired of their prime minister, but only this time, it was Justin Trudeau. He lost his seat and opted not to run again in 2021. A former pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, he says he's been pulled back into politics by a desire to help defend Canada against Trump's talk of annexation and trade wars and a belief in the new Liberal leader's ability to win people over. "[Mark] Carney plays very well here," Fuhr said, saying the former banker appeals to voters like him who may have once leaned Conservative but feel uneasy about whether Poilievre can best handle the moment with the uncertainty caused by the United States. Korzinski of the Angus Reid Institute said while it's true the Liberals are picking up new supporters, he doesn't see the same sort of "generational shift" of voters moving toward Carney that took place when Trudeau ran for prime minister in 2015, when younger Canadians were attracted by his message on issues like climate change and spending. "There seems to be more pragmatism in this race in supporting Carney and the Liberals, rather than the charisma factor that Trudeau brought," he said in an email. Conservatives target NDP voters in West Kootenay Korzinski also noted that Angus Reid's polling has shown a tightening of the race in B.C., with Conservative Party gains coming at the expense of other parties, including the Liberals, following Poilievre's visits to both Penticton and Terrace in B.C.'s northwest. He said the importance of the cost of living among voters polled has risen in recent weeks, while the weight of relations with the United States has declined on the priority list, a trend that could favour the Conservatives, as well. Those trends speak to Dan Albas in the riding of Okangan Lake West-South Kelowna. First elected as a Conservative in 2011, he says he got into politics as a "frustrated small business owner" and is critical of the direction of the country over the past decade. "Our GDP growth, wage growth, standard of living have fallen way behind other countries," he said. He says that in addition to international relations, what voters he speaks to are focused on is things like public safety and stagnant economic opportunities, problems he says have gotten and will continue to get worse under the Liberals. Albas joined Poilievre on stage in Penticton, where they are hoping for a Conservative win in the new riding of Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay. Formerly South Okanagan—West Kootenay, the district has had its boundaries redrawn to extend further west into Vernon, an area that has historically voted Conservative and which the party thinks will help extend its chances of victory, particularly since the incumbent, the NDP's Richard Cannings, is not standing for reelection. WATCH | What do voters care about in Kimberly, B.C.? What matters to voters in Kimberley, B.C.? 3 days ago Duration 2:25 The city of Kimberley, in the province's East Kootenay region, has been a tourist destination for decades. Voters in the city — part of the redrawn Columbia-Kootenay-Southern Rockies riding — spoke to the CBC's Corey Bullock about what matters to them ahead of the federal election, including climate change and the Canada-U.S. relationship. Bill Bennett, a longtime provincial politician in the region with the now-defunct B.C. Liberals who has worked on federal Conservative campaigns, says he thinks the Conservative message appeals to the same sort of "working people" who have previously voted NDP. "They're people that want to get ahead economically," he said. "They want to make sure they continue to have their jobs working in the mining industry and the forest industry and everything else that you do here." Poilievre's message of lowering taxes and speeding up resource development, he said, resonates. Linda Sankey, who has stepped in as the NDP candidate, also places cost of living at the top of the list of everyday concerns for voters, including a lack of housing and health care. She's been out on the road making the pitch to voters that her party, which helped extend dental and pharmacy coverage, is best positioned to deliver tangible change. "It's time to build, not to cut," she said, arguing that both the Liberals and Conservatives fail to work for "the people." But Bennett says his time in politics has taught him that in a major campaign, it's the face of the party that matters more than the local candidate, so the direction this election takes in the Interior may come down to whether Carney or Poilievre can appeal more to voters in the region. And with so much at stake for the country right now, he hopes people will take a close look at who they want to be prime minister in the weeks and years ahead.
