Canada election: Less than half an hour until 1st polls close

Smaller abstraction for Bloc Québécois HQ

I'm Raffy Boudjikanian, a elder newsman covering the Bloc Québécois astatine their Montreal headquarters.

This country successful Le National is simply a smaller abstraction than the 1 the Bloc had reserved 4 years ago.

Staff accidental they’re expecting astir 100 supporters astatine the 125-year-old show venue astir 8 p.m. ET erstwhile doors unfastened to the public. The enactment says that's astir rental availability.

But for now, dozens of journalists, technicians and a fistful of cameras person filled the theatre’s crushed level to hole for tonight’s predetermination coverage.

Blanchet is besides successful Montreal, though not rather present yet.

Throughout the campaign, the Greens person languished betwixt 2 and 4 per cent successful the polls. They’re projected to triumph 2 seats, astatine most.

The party, traditionally focused connected biology issues, mightiness person been struggling to scope voters successful this peculiar time.

An Abacus canvass successful March recovered lone 5 per cent of those surveyed listed clime alteration arsenic the astir important contented influencing their vote, portion listing affordability and U.S. President Donald Trump arsenic their biggest concerns.

It means the Greens are warring for their ain survival, overmuch similar the NDP.

I'm covering Green Party co-Leader Elizabeth May’s run lawsuit astatine a winery successful Victoria.

May is moving successful her 5th national predetermination to support representing the riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands. It’s usually a harmless spot for the Greens, but May is successful a three-way race, facing stiff contention from the Conservatives and Liberals.

May is urging voters to enactment the Greens for the involvement of Canada’s democracy. She says she’s acrophobic that Canada is moving successful what she described arsenic a toxic absorption toward a two-party voting system, similar the 1 successful the U.S.

May says Canada needs voices, similar the Greens, who are committed to moving crossed enactment lines to get results for voters. She’s participating successful 3 sign-waving run events successful her riding contiguous to convey that connection and get the ballot out.

What’s with the 91 candidates successful Poilievre’s riding?

Poilievre faced much opponents than ever successful his eighth national campaign, acknowledgment to dozens of protestation candidates moving successful his riding.

Most of the 91 candidates successful the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton are portion of the Longest Ballot Committee. The radical has organized akin agelong ballot initiatives successful the past arsenic a mode to protestation against Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system.

The organizers said they planned to besides tally a akin fig of candidates successful Nepean wherever Carney is running. But they had small clip to cod the required signatures due to the fact that the Liberal person didn’t denote wherever helium would beryllium moving until precocious March.

It feels improbable that the Conservative person volition beryllium unseated successful a riding he’s represented since 2004. But if you’re keenly waiting for the results, I wouldn’t clasp your breath.

The mammoth-sized ballots utilized to accommodate unusually agelong lists of candidates person led to delayed counts successful the past. Elections Canada attempted to debar the hold by allowing section predetermination officials to commencement counting beforehand ballots six hours up of the polls closing.

Differing opinions contiguous astatine Conservative HQ

Hi there. I'm a elder newsman successful the Parliamentary Bureau who has been travelling with the Conservatives passim this campaign. I'm astatine the party's office successful Ottawa contiguous and volition beryllium bringing you tidbits from here.

I've been speaking to Conservatives each time and I tin archer you galore of them are rather anxious astir what's to travel tonight. The nationalist sentiment polls suggest the Liberals person the pb nationwide and a Conservative triumph could beryllium hard to propulsion off.

The enactment radical I've been speaking to support their interior numbers are amended than what the polling firms are reporting — and holding the Liberals to a number oregon adjacent pulling disconnected 1 of their ain is inactive precise overmuch a possibility. A Conservative bulk is mostly thought to beryllium retired of scope by everyone involved.

My sources consciousness similar they ran a bully run with beardown messaging astir taxation cuts, affordability and crime. But I besides spoke to immoderate Conservatives who are feeling a spot dejected that they had specified a commanding pb earlier successful the twelvemonth — astatine 1 constituent astir pollsters showed a 20-point pb oregon much — that has since evaporated.

There is already chatter astir what could go of Poilievre if helium loses this one.

If the enactment is consigned to the absorption benches yet again, it mightiness beryllium hard for him to bent on, enactment sources archer me.

If helium pulls disconnected a triumph oregon holds the Liberals to a precise tiny minority, helium could bent connected — but opinions disagree wide connected his aboriginal astatine this point, fixed determination haven't been immoderate results reported yet!

Rare bluish lobster astatine N.S. Conservative ticker party

Hi, I’m Taryn Grant, a newsman with CBC Nova Scotia, stationed contiguous successful Digby, N.S., successful the riding of Acadie-Annapolis.

Conservative campaigner and incumbent Chris d’Entremont is hosting a ticker enactment for his supporters astatine a seafood restaurant, and successful the unrecorded lobster vessel is simply a uncommon bluish lobster. A bully omen for the bluish team?

A fashionable MP since 2019, d’Entremont was a Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative MLA for 16 years earlier that.

Controversy successful the lobster fishery has been a large contented present for years and has engendered a batch of anti-Trudeau sentiment.

This is simply a spot the Conservatives are hoping to clasp onto, but the Liberals are trying hard to flip it.

Their candidate, Ronnie LeBlanc, was a lobster fisherman and a one-term provincial Liberal MLA. If LeBlanc tin unseat d’Entremont, it volition beryllium a large upset.

Riding to watch: Peterborough

Finally, things are looking choky successful Peterborough — a known bellwether — betwixt Liberal Emma Harrison and Conservative Michelle Ferreri.

Ferreri won the riding successful 2021 with 39 per cent of the vote, but could suffer the spot to Harrison, a third-generation farmer.

The riding’s constituents person seldom elected absorption enactment members to Parliament. The riding's borders changed somewhat pursuing the 2022 redistribution that saw it suffer the Kawartha Lakes country and regain the full metropolis of Peterborough.

Riding to watch: York Centre

With the highest fig of seats successful the state astatine 122, a batch of eyes volition beryllium connected Ontario this evening. The cardinal battlegrounds are mostly successful the Greater Toronto Area, particularly successful the suburbs often referred to by their telephone codification — the 905.

The Conservatives person been targeting those suburbs and the York portion is the astir competitory area.

The riding was erstwhile a harmless Liberal seat, but it besides went Conservative successful 2011, shaking things up a bit.

Riding to watch: Terrebonne and Les Pays-d’en-Haut

North of Montreal is wherever immoderate of the Bloc's territory is threatened by the Liberals, including successful Terrebonne, a suburb of the metropolis and successful the Laurentians riding of Les Pays-d’en-Haut.

The Bloc won comfortably successful some ridings successful the past election, but could spot their seats successful Parliament threatened if the Liberals summation crushed successful Quebec tonight.

Riding to watch: Berthier-Maskinongé

This one's a toss-up betwixt the Bloc, NDP and Liberals. The riding covers a ample information of Quebec's Mauricie and Lanaudière regions, but doesn't see the metropolis of Trois-Rivières.

The Bloc won successful 2021 with astir 36 per cent of the vote.

NDP prima campaigner and erstwhile MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau is moving again successful the riding. Brosseau was 1 of 59 NDP candidates to triumph a spot successful Quebec amid Jack Layton's orangish question successful 2011. She'd ne'er acceptable ft successful the riding earlier then, alternatively making headlines by flying to Las Vegas for her 27th day during the campaign. But she won again successful 2015 earlier losing to the Bloc successful 2019 and 2021 – but lone by less than 1,000 votes that past time.