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  Clumsy format, too many moderators made 2021 election debates less effective: report

  The federal debates commission says the next federal election's events should have a simpler format and better moderation to focus more on what the leaders say than what they are asked.

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  Bloc Quebecois saw biggest drop in fundraising after federal election

  Elections Canada figures show donations dried up for the Bloc Quebecois more than other federal parties after the election in September.

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  Elections Canada probes extent of mistakes on polling day in Indigenous communities

  Elections Canada has launched an investigation to see if errors cost Indigenous communities across Canada their right to vote.

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  Liberals gain one more seat after judicial recount in Quebec

  Federal Liberals say they've picked up another seat in Quebec after a judicial recount. The recount bumps up the total number of seats won by Justin Trudeau's Liberals to 160, although the winner in one of them -- Kevin Vuong in Toronto's Spadina-Fort York -- will be sitting as an Independent MP, meaning the party will have 159 Liberal MPs in the House of Commons.

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  NDP says errors meant people -- including First Nations -- were disenfranchised

  The NDP has requested an official inquiry into what it calls 'numerous and systemic failures of election officials' in last month's federal election.

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  Recounts demanded in four ridings, as deadline to challenge result passes

  Voters in four ridings are still waiting for confirmation of who their MP will be, following demands from candidates that ballots be counted again.

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  OPINION

  Tom Mulcair: Trudeau has to get serious. The time for bluffing and emoting is over.

  In the waning days of the campaign, Trudeau went all out to convince voters in the Greater Toronto Area that he was a 'progressive,' a term that he hardly ever used to describe himself before. Now, it’s put up or shut up time in several key files, writes former NDP Leader Tom Mulcair in an exclusive column for CTVNews.ca.

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  Conservatives could have done better job talking to Chinese Canadian voters: ex-MP

  A former Conservative MP who lost his seat in the recent election thinks the party could have done a better job speaking directly to Chinese Canadians.

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  Voter turnout in federal election about average despite pandemic challenges

  Sixty-two per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in last week's federal election -- about average turnout for recent Canadian elections despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Elections Canada says almost 17 million Canadians voted, out of 27.4 million eligible electors.

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  Six charts to help you understand the 2021 federal election

  CTVNews.ca tells the story of the 44th federal election in six charts, breaking down the percentage of total votes won by each party, what was gained, what was lost, and where in Canada saw the closest, nail-biter races.