🗳B.C. NDP wins razor-thin majority after marathon vote count; two recounts pending

The New Democrats and Premier David Eby were on track to win a bare majority government nine days after voters went to the polls in British Columbia, but the final verdict will still require two judicial recounts to become official.

The incumbent NDP ended the final vote count Monday with 47 seats, defeating John Rustad's B.C. Conservatives. That's exactly the number of seats needed to secure a majority in the 93-seat legislature. The Conservatives won 44 and the Greens took two.

#BritishColumbia
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Poilievre promises to release names of MPs who participated in foreign interference

Opposition Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre would release the names of members of Parliament “deemed to have knowingly participated in foreign interference” should his party form government, his office says.

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used his testimony before a federal inquiry on foreign interference to say he has the names “of a number of parliamentarians, former parliamentarians and/or candidates” within the Conservative party who intelligence shows “are engaged, or at high risk” of foreign interference.

What kind of game is that?

#Trudeau #Poilievre
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Singh refuses to take down Liberal government

One day after Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said they’d join in efforts to bring down the minority Liberals, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he wants nothing to do with it.

They are all just stalling to let the Liberals sink even lower.

#Singh
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A PQ government would slash number of foreign students who don't speak French

The Parti Québécois on Monday proposed slapping a ceiling on the number of spots available in Quebec’s universities for those who do not master French.

The goal, PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said as he released a long-awaited 94-page policy document on immigration, is to cut the number of international students allowed into Quebec by half.

Should the PQ form the next government in 2026, he said, that number would drop from the current 123,689 to 50,000 in the first year of the party’s mandate.

#Quebec
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🇨🇳China 'compromised' Canadian government networks and stole valuable info: spy agency

Threat actors sponsored by China "compromised" Canadian government networks over the past five years and collected valuable information, says a new report from Canada's cyber spy agency.

CSE's latest report, which casts ahead to the 2025-2026 fiscal year, names the People's Republic of China (PRC) as "the most comprehensive cyber security threat facing Canada today" and says the scale, tradecraft and ambitions China demonstrates online are "second to none."

#China
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Mounties in B.C. raid 'largest and most sophisticated' drug lab in Canadian history

Mounties in British Columbia have discovered the "largest and most sophisticated" drug-production laboratory in Canadian history, federal investigators announced Thursday, describing the facility as a "super lab" operated by international organized criminals.

The facility, located east of Kamloops in the rural community of Falkland, was capable of producing several kilograms of methamphetamine, fentanyl and MDMA per week.

#BritishColumbia
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Asylum seeker living in car after being evicted from government-funded hotel room

Are we supposed to feel sorry for an asylum seeker who's been living in a government-paid hotel room for two and a half years?

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🪖Federal government would have to double military spending to meet NATO target: PBO

The parliamentary budget officer says if the federal government wants to meet NATO’s military spending target by 2032 as promised, it will have to almost double defence spending to $81.9 billion.

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💉B.C. judge halts medically assisted death of Alberta woman a day before MAID procedure

A B.C. judge has granted an urgent injunction stopping a woman’s medically assisted death, the day before it was scheduled to take place in Vancouver.

The injunction granted on Saturday to the woman’s common-law partner prevents Dr. Ellen Wiebe or any other medical professional from helping end the life of the 53-year-old Alberta woman for 30 days.

Why is Ellen Wiebe always first in line to claim yet another soul?

#BritishColumbia #MAID
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Plot twist: the lab was run by Gaganpreet Randhawa.

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🎃Razors offered as Halloween treats leave parents outraged

A twisted attempt at political commentary hasn’t sat well with parents in Calgary’s Bowness, who are outraged after someone left a bowl of disposable razors out for children on Halloween.

Sorry we can’t afford apples this year because of Trudeau. So this year just razors.

The note reads.

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❌💨Alberta's ruling party votes to dump emissions reduction plans

Members of Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party have voted overwhelmingly to abandon the province’s emissions reduction targets and recognize carbon dioxide as “a foundational nutrient for all life on earth.”

The motion was one of 35 policy resolutions up for debate Saturday on the second day of the UCP’s annual general meeting in Red Deer. Each resolution passed, most of them overwhelmingly.

#Alberta
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🗳Alberta premier wins leadership review with 91.5% approval

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith received 91.5 per cent support for her leadership from members of her United Conservative Party who voted in Red Deer, Alta., on Saturday.

The party said 4,633 ballots were cast in the vote. The result solidifies Smith's leadership of Alberta's governing party and confirms party members agree with the direction she has taken the province since she took over the party two years ago.

#Alberta
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🗳For first time, electronic tablets to be used for early in-person voting across Nova Scotia

For the first time in the provincial general election, electronic tablet voting — being referred to as "e-ballots" by Elections Nova Scotia — will be used during early voting. No paper ballots will be used before election day, except when using the mail-in ballot option.

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Hundreds of people attend march at Brampton Hindu temple a day after violent clashes

An unlawful assembly has been declared by Peel police as hundreds of people gathered outside a Hindu temple in Brampton the day after a chaotic and violent scene erupted when Indian consular officials visited.

On Monday night, hundreds of people gathered in the parking lot of the temple and were spotted waving Indian flags. They began to walk on the street, temporarily blocking traffic in both directions.

Hours later, police shared on social media that weapons have been observed during the demonstration.

A country on the other side of the world is using Canada to solve its crisis. Who asked for this?

#Ontario #India
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Brampton's got a bad reputation.
#Ontario
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🇺🇸'Buckle up' for a 2nd Trump presidency, former U.S. ambassador tells Canada

Kelly Craft, Donald Trump's former ambassador to Canada, says the country should prepare for what could be a more antagonistic bilateral relationship with the U.S. if her old boss wins Tuesday's presidential election.

Trump's focus on building up American manufacturing and making NATO allies spend more on defence means Canada would need to make some policy changes to stay in America's good graces, Craft said.

Canada, they need to buckle up, The whole world needs to buckle up because President Trump will continue his policies from 2016. We are going to make America great again and we will be bringing it back to where it was under the Trump presidency.

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Indians in Brampton are casually walking around with swords. That's the way things are.

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Oil, gas companies told to cut emissions by one-third under planned cap

Oil and gas producers in Canada will be required to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about one-third over the next eight years under new regulations published Monday.

The government is also going to establish a cap-and-trade system that Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said will reward lower-emitting producers and incentivize higher-polluting ones to do more.

The regulations, which are still only in draft form and about two years behind schedule, were met with dismay from industry leaders and are further straining relations between Ottawa and the Alberta government.

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‘I’m pissed’: Alberta premier, oil and gas industry slam Ottawa’s new emissions cap

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith did not mince words over Ottawa’s new greenhouse gas emissions cap announced Monday.

I’m pissed — I’m absolutely angry. We’ve been working with these guys for two years because we have a plan that would reduce emissions responsibly by 2050 and they continue to act like they are working collaboratively with us — then they come out with exactly same policy they put forward a year ago, with no changes whatsoever and then trying to mislead the public about the true intent.

The Alberta premier said the cap violates Canada’s constitution, explaining Section 92A gives provinces exclusive jurisdiction over non-renewable natural resource development, “yet this cap will require a one million barrel a day production cut by 2030.”
#Alberta #energy
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💰Canadian trucker nabbed with $16.5M cocaine load at border

A Canadian trucker has been arrested and charged following a massive dope bust in Port Huron.

The bust — more than 370 lbs. of cocaine with a street value of $16.5 million — is just the latest takedown at the Canadian-U.S. border involving truck drivers. Cops say Sukjindr Singh, 29, of the Peel Region, was nabbed on Oct. 15.

"Canadian"

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