Uptick in voters at local advance polls compared to 2019, Elections Canada numbers show
CBC
New numbers from Elections Canada show a significant uptick of people voting in advance polls in Waterloo region, Guelph and Wellington County this past weekend compared to 2019.
Close to 5.8 million Canadians voted over the four days of advance polling from Friday to Monday, a new record. That was an 18 per cent increase from the nearly 4.9 million Canadians who voted in advance polls during the 2019 election, which was the previous record for federal elections since since 1997.
Whoever becomes attorney-general — the top lawyer — in Susan Holt's new Liberal government will face piles of lawsuits, along with decisions about how quickly to clear some of them away.
A video obtained by CBC Toronto shows a violent arrest by Peel Regional Police in Mississauga on Monday in which a Black man appears to get knocked unconscious.
Community members in Cote-des-Neiges are asking what comes next for students of an elementary school that has been at the centre of a political and media firestorm.
A personal care home in Winkler, Man., has been forced to close 26 desperately needed beds after its elevator became unstable, and petitioned the provincial government for months before Shared Health finally committed to fund the repair.
Josh Peterson knows gunshot wounds. He says he expected the worst when he showed up in the hospital emergency room to check on his 66-year-old dad.
Four years ago, the P.E.I. government said it had ordered a corporation owned by a member of the Irving family, Red Fox Acres, to get rid of some of its land because of a contravention of P.E.I.'s Lands Protection Act.
The number of people experiencing homelessness in Edmonton, as counted by Homeward Trust, has increased by nearly 2,000 in the past year, up to 4,697 in September.
You've probably done a double take walking by some of your neighbours' yards this Halloween season, as sets of spooky skeletal eyes stare back at you.
A senior official at the Niagara Detention Centre (NDC) told the inquest into the deaths of five men that there can be tension between managing inmate health care and securing the jail.
Except on a few special days a year, Windsorites aren't allowed to buy or set off fireworks. But as the city's South Asian community prepares to celebrate Diwali, two local business owners say the Festival of Lights should be added to the list of holidays.
Calgary's rental market has gone through a major shift in recent years.