Canada election: Polls from Quebec to Alberta closing in less than half an hour

NDP hoping to support this Montreal riding

I'm covering the NDP successful Montreal.

The lone incumbent for the NDP successful the state of Quebec is Alexandre Boulerice.

He has held the riding of Rosemount-La Petitie-Patrie since the orangish question successful 2011.

Volunteers are assured helium volition support this spot orange. They accidental the issues they heard astir from residents the astir was the lodging situation and the rising outgo of living.

In Quebec, doors person opened to the nationalist astatine Bloc HQ

Some Bloc supporters arsenic good arsenic Jean-Denis Garon, the party’s campaigner successful Mirabel, person arrived connected site.

Photographers flocked toward the lone 2 supporters astatine the venue who are decked retired successful Quebec flags and blue-and-white clothing.

Sporting a blue-and-silver cowboy hat, Robert Bélanger, 68, from Montreal says he’s voted for the Bloc since helium was archetypal eligible to ballot and remains optimistic tonight.

“You don’t alteration parties erstwhile you’re definite of what you privation and your identity. You can’t alteration that,” helium said.

Bélanger added that helium finds that Blanchet has “very bully ideas” and hopes the enactment doesn’t suffer much than 10 seats tonight.

Watching results travel successful from the commercialized war’s beforehand lines

Lisa Xing here, covering the predetermination from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. I’m starting contiguous from the Conservative candidate’s ticker enactment successful the riding of Sault Ste. Marie-Algoma. This new, larger riding covers a mates of municipality centres and smaller communities and agrarian areas successful bluish Ontario.

The metropolis has a unsocial vantage constituent successful this election. It is simply a borderline metropolis and radical question crossed to its duplicate metropolis — Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,. — each the time. The 2 economies are linked.

Not lone that, Algoma Steel is The Soo’s largest leader and biggest economical driver. Considering Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs connected alloy and aluminum, radical archer maine they’re disquieted astir jobs and the economy.

They’re besides acrophobic anout transgression and precocious rates of opioid deaths. As a effect of each these issues, I’m proceeding radical are much engaged than ever successful this predetermination campaign.

Both the Liberals and Conservatives person their sights acceptable connected this riding, with Carney and Poilievre making appearances with section candidates successful caller weeks.

Jewish voters disquieted astir rising antisemitism, economical issues

Several voters successful a fashionable deli present successful Thornhill, Ont., told america they enactment Conservative incumbent Melissa Lantsman due to the fact that she’s been a vocal defender of Israel.

Sydney Goodman, 18, told america she formed her ballot for the Conservatives successful aboriginal voting.

“I deliberation it’s precise important astatine this clip to person idiosyncratic who stands with the Jewish people, due to the fact that it’s honestly precise scary with antisemitism,” she said.

Richard Kauffman, sharing a java with 3 friends, said his ballot was influenced by which enactment helium perceives champion supports Jewish Canadians.

“The satellite is simply a brainsick spot close now,” said Kauffman. “Canada should beryllium a harmless haven … but a batch of radical I’m dealing with don’t deliberation of it that way. They’re talking astir possibly leaving the state oregon making immoderate different arrangement.”

Others enjoying their smoked nutrient sandwiches and fries said the system was their No. 1 issue.

“We’ve had 10 years of Liberal authorities and I truly judge we’ve spent similar drunken sailors and that’s what the origin of ostentation was,” said Bernie Goldman.

Conservative lawman person trying to clasp Thornhill, Ont., riding

I’m Susan Ormiston, big of the CBC Radio predetermination nighttime special. We're astir 30 minutes distant from polls closing from Quebec to Alberta.

We’re successful Thornhill, connected the borderline of Toronto — a bluish riding up against a swath of reddish to the southbound successful municipality Toronto.

The Conservative’s lawman co-leader Melissa Lantsman is trying to bent onto this riding — 1 of 31 seats successful the captious Greater Toronto Area — and a riding with the highest percent of Jewish voters successful the country, astatine 29 per cent, according to Elections Canada.

Lantsman is simply a vocal defender of Israel. She has criticized the Liberals and tried to pin down Carney connected his presumption regarding the warfare successful Gaza, from arms embargoes to transportation of humanitarian assistance done the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Her constituency bureau was vandalized conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago.

Liberal campaigner Lianne Kotler is simply a first-time governmental hopeful and, judging by polling projections, Kotler volition person a situation flipping this riding.

Newfoundland’s sole Conservative MP projected to triumph re-election

I’m Heather Gillis, a newsman with CBC successful Newfoundland and Labrador.

Conservative Clifford Small is projected to beryllium re-elected successful the riding of Central Newfoundland.

When the writ dropped, Small was the province’s sole Conservative MP. He was archetypal elected successful 2021, erstwhile helium ousted long-time Liberal MP Scott Simms.

This clip he’s heading backmost to Ottawa with immoderate acquisition nether his belt.

Small took an aboriginal pb erstwhile the polls started reporting and has maintained it with astir 60 per cent of the vote.

Elections Canada warns astir misinformation

Earlier today, Elections Canada warned voters astir misinformation being dispersed online astir predetermination day.

A fake station designed to look similar a communicative from the Journal de Montréal paper claims that the last time to ballot for electors aged 60 and implicit is Tuesday, April 29.

That’s not true. Today — Monday, April 28 — is the past time to vote.

A maverick Liberal successful a trade-dependent city

I'm CBC's provincial affairs newsman successful New Brunswick. I'm astatine a Liberal ticker enactment successful Saint John, wherever supporters of Liberal campaigner Wayne Long are hoping he'll triumph a 4th word contiguous successful the riding of Saint John-Kennebecasis.

Long was the archetypal Liberal MP to telephone for erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau to resign arsenic Liberal person past June. Long had already decided astatine that constituent not to tally again. But erstwhile Trudeau near and Carney was chosen to regenerate him, Long jumped backmost in.

Saint John was ranked Canada's astir tariff-vulnerable metropolis by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. U.S. President Donald Trump's commercialized posture has been felt precise tangibly present and that jolted the contention present successful a large way.

Conservatives seeing encouraging aboriginal results

I’m a elder shaper with the CBC Parliamentary bureau’s integer team.

It’s inactive rather early, but the Conservatives volition apt beryllium blessed with the results successful Atlantic Canada we’re seeing truthful far.

The aboriginal numbers (leading oregon elected) amusement the Liberals are down 1 seat, and the Conservatives are up one.

Conservatives are up 12 percent points crossed the Atlantic region, and the Liberals are up 7 points. That suggests the Conservatives are converting immoderate NDP voters successful parts of the Atlantic, surely successful Newfoundland.

Bloc Québécois campaigner makes last push

I'm Vanessa Lee successful the riding of Longueuil-Saint-Hubert, connected Montreal's southbound shore.

We are astatine Bloc Québécois campaigner Denis Trudel's run headquarters. He is hoping to beryllium re-elected for a 3rd term.

Volunteers person been connected the telephone each day, making definite supporters get retired to vote. Polls adjacent successful Quebec successful little than 2 hours.

The Greater Montreal Area is important for the Bloc. The enactment took 16 of the 23 seats successful the past election.

What happens present whitethorn springiness america an denotation of whether the Bloc tin bent onto their strongholds, oregon whether these seats volition flip and crook into a oversea of red.