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  Hundreds of complaints about false statements during 2019 campaign investigated

  Elections commissioner Yves Cote says his office investigated some 400 complaints about false statements allegedly made during the 2019 federal election campaign.

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  Voter turnout in 2019 federal election up from 2015, except among young people

  Newly released Elections Canada data shows that overall voter turnout in the 2019 federal election was up from 2015, though participation was down among young people.

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  Quebec firm made illegal donations to Liberals, Tories over seven years

  Canada's elections watchdog says a Quebec engineering firm illegally donated more than $46,000 to federal political entities over a period of seven years.

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  TV, online ads, take lion's share of party election spending, new reports show

  Online advertising is coming close to rivalling television in election advertising by some of Canada's major political parties.

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  Report into federal election leaders' debates suggests permanent commission

  The official review of the leaders' debates from the last federal election suggests the organizing body be made permanent, but who gets to participate needs some tweaking.

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  Most federal candidates saw false information as problem, survey suggests

  A newly released survey report suggests nearly two-thirds of candidates in the last federal election felt there was a problem with the spread of false information online.

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  'Not interested in politics' top reason Canadians didn't vote in 2019, StatCan says

  Being uninterested in politics was the top reason Canadians gave as to why they didn't cast a ballot in the 2019 federal election. According to a new release from Statistics Canada, of those who were eligible to vote but didn't, 35 per cent said it was because they were 'not interested in politics.'

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  2019 election wasn't without hitches, but no cyber disruptions: report

  Election Canada's delivery of the 2019 federal election wasn't without some hitches, but the integrity of the vote was maintained from a cybersecurity perspective, according to Elections Canada’s first report into the fall campaign.

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  First Elections Canada report on 2019 federal election to be tabled Tuesday

  The first in what will be a series of Elections Canada reports on the 2019 federal election is being tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday.

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  Concerns over interference, misinformation among posts monitored during election campaign

  From questions over foreign interference and misinformation tactics, to concerns about parties' behaviour and the validity of ballots, Elections Canada's internal social media monitoring reports show the nature of the online concerns about manipulation that the agency kept an eye on in the lead up to, during, and in the days after, the 2019 federal campaign.

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  Feds hurried to spend $50M social-finance cash, documents show

  Internal government documents show that federal officials moved quickly before the fall election campaign to dole out $50 million aimed at transforming the delivery of social services.

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  Ethnic media's approach to election coverage similar to mainstream: analysis

  An analysis of how ethnic media covered the federal election suggests it closely mirrored that of the mainstream press.

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  Elections Canada used a helicopter to deliver ballots to 27 lighthouses

  Elections Canada workers delivered special ballots to a few dozen lighthouse keepers living on remote islands along British Columbia’s rugged coast to make sure everyone had the chance to vote.

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  Liberals' 35 Quebec seats remain unchanged after Bloc concedes in recount

  The Bloc Quebecois has conceded defeat in a Quebec City riding it had hoped to snatch from the Liberals in an official recount.

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  No 'honeymoon period' for Liberals who remain deadlocked with Conservatives after election: Nanos

  Two weeks after the federal election, there’s no victory bounce in popular support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the Liberals and Conservatives remain deadlocked, according to the latest weekly Nanos tracking numbers.

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  Canadians believe Trudeau gov't more likely to deliver on priorities than manage spending: survey

  With the beginning of the new Parliament approaching, Canadians surveyed are more optimistic about the Liberal minority government’s ability to follow through on priority issues than they are about their ability to manage provincial relations or spending.

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  Liberal win in Montreal riding stands after Bloc withdraws recount request

  A judicial recount in the Montreal riding of Hochelaga has been cancelled midway through the process.

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  Recounts ordered in B.C., Quebec ridings after narrow federal election results

  Three recounts will take place in ridings where the runners-up are hoping a court-ordered review could snatch victory from the jaws of ever-so-narrow defeat.

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  Tories, Liberals raked in millions, NDP and Greens lagged far behind

  Money raised by federal political parties spiked in the run-up to the Oct. 21, election but the Conservatives and Liberals raked in most of the dough, leaving their already impoverished rivals in the dust.

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  Trudeau taps ambassador to France, Anne McLellan to aid in transition

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tapped Albertan and former Liberal deputy prime minister Anne McLellan and Canada's Ambassador to France, Quebecer Isabelle Hudon to assist his top team in the transition into a second term, with a minority mandate, sources tell CTV News.

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  Election defeat leaves some Conservatives questioning Scheer's leadership

  After the Conservative Party failed to win enough seats in the federal election to form government, some party members are questioning whether their leader Andrew Scheer should remain at the helm.

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  Life after losing: Electoral defeat brings whole new set of challenges

  More than 1,500 candidates went down to defeat on Monday, 49 of whom were incumbents. Now, a group of ex-parliamentarians wants to help those former MPs figure out where to sit next.

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  Possible to hold socially conservative views and be prime minister: Scheer

  Andrew Scheer remains convinced that a prime minister can hold conservative views on divisive issues like same-sex marriage and abortion and still be trusted by Canadians not to impose them on the country.

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  Bloc's leader Blanchet prepared to work with Liberals despite pipeline talk

  Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet said Thursday that he's willing to work with a re-elected Liberal government, despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's support for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

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  Split opposition means stronger minority for Liberals, experts say

  From do-or-die votes to opposition-dominated committees, the 43rd Parliament is going to work differently under a minority government. But, given the ideological split between the major opposition parties, the Liberals will have stronger footing, say experts.

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  Don Martin: The canary that choked in the Prairie coal mine

  With Goodale's ouster along with a trio of underwhelming Liberals from Alberta, silence fills the cabinet table seats where two important provinces used to be heard, writes Don Martin.

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  Trudeau needs to act on Trans Mountain and equalization to bridge East-West divide: strategist

  Justin Trudeau’s immediate next steps as prime minister must involve focused action on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and reconfiguring the equalization formula in Alberta or risk further alienation from the West, says a political strategist in Saskatchewan.

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  Next election could be some time away, predicts Green Leader Elizabeth May

  Elizabeth May isn't expecting another federal election any time soon, but she's already telling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau what will keep the Greens from voting against his government.

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  Alberta UCP government tables budget with cuts to civil servants, universities

  Alberta's budget preserves health and education funding but takes a big stick to cities, civil servants and universities.

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  TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects: Liberals

  The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that pull carbon out of the atmosphere.