KAMLOOPS - Elections Canada has released validated results from the Sept. 20 federal election. They show a minor swing in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo votes, but a much more dramatic swing in Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola.The final results for the Kamloops riding show Conservative MP-elect Frank Caputo with 30,281 t...

TORONTO - Annamie Paul is stepping down as leader of the Green Party of Canada.Paul announced her resignation in Toronto this morning, a week after the federal election that saw her party's share of the popular vote drop significantly.Paul came in fourth in Toronto Centre, her third failed attempt to win the riding.The...

KAMLOOPS - Voter turnout declined in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo for the second consecutive federal election.Elections Canada has tabulated all of the ballots in the riding from Monday's vote, validating a total of 69,344 ballots, representing 65.2 per cent of the 106,354 registered voters.That turnout is a drop from 69....

MERRITT, B.C. - Conservative Dan Albas will be returning to Ottawa for his fourth term as an MP whenever the House of Commons is recalled.Following his big victory on Monday night, Albas joined Q101 to discuss some of his priorities for the term and his overall thoughts on the election."It's really where we should...

KAMLOOPS - Here in the BC interior, there is some deja vu after last night's federal election. Conservative Party Candidate Frank Caputo will become the next Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP. Some minor shifts occurred between the Green Party, the People's Party of Canada and the Liberals, but last night's Conservative win...

KAMLOOPS - Bill Sundhu hoped a return to the federal ballot would lead to change, and ultimately result in a trip to Ottawa. However, that did not go according to plan. "We thought it was a much more competitive race here," Sundhu told CFJC Today on Tuesday, a night after deciding not to speak with the media ...

KAMLOOPS - "It's a great process. I wish our government allowed it to work for Canadians, rather than working for politicians," Green Party candidate for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, Iain Currie says.Frustration. If you could sum up Currie's feelings about the 44th Federal Election, frustrated would be a good w...

KAMLOOPS - The Liberals emerged victorious in Monday's (Sept. 20) election, but a Kamloops political expert says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hardly achieved his goal when he threw the country into the vote.WATCH: TRU's Robert Hanlon speaks to CFJC's James Peters at the close of election night.As of late Monday, the L...

KAMLOOPS - The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) retained the Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola and North Okanagan-Shuswap ridings. The Canadian Press projects that Dan Albas in Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola and Mel Arnold in North Okanagan-Shuswap have been re-elected. Albas has served Merritt and area since ...

PRINCE GEORGE - The riding of Cariboo-Prince George will remain Conservative Party blue.With votes continuing to roll in, the results weigh heavily in favour of Todd Doherty.With 105 of the riding's 233 polling stations reporting, Doherty has a lead with over 49 per cent of the vote.The riding was created back in 2003 ...

KAMLOOPS - The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) has reclaimed the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding in Monday's federal election.Newcomer Frank Caputo has been declared the winner of the riding which had been held for the last 13 years by Cathy McLeod of the CPC.The Canadian Press declared Caputo the winner with 95/29...

OTTAWA - Monday's federal election put a damper on a traditional form of watching the returns with the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the number of viewing parties across the country. Large indoor gatherings were for the most part either less appealing, or off-limits, due to the virus and the higher-than-average number of ...

MONTREAL - Early election results have the Liberals leading in Quebec after a race dominated by frequent appeals to Quebec nationalism. Shortly after 11 p.m., about 90 minutes after polls closed, the Liberals were elected or leading in 36 ridings in the province, while the Bloc was elected or leading in 29. The Liberal...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Press is projecting the Liberals have won enough seats to stay in power with a minority government but have fallen short of winning a majority.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will need the support of at least one other party to maintain a minority government.Trudeau called the election on Aug. 15, p...

The People's Party of Canada, led by the outspoken Maxime Bernier, is looking to turn growing support into ballot-box success this evening. Opinion polls have consistently shown party support hovering at five per cent or higher during the federal campaign, even though Bernier was excluded from national leaders' debates...

VANCOUVER - Polls have closed in British Columbia and Yukon, marking the end of voting across the country. Yukon's chief medical health officer Dr. Brendan Hanley is on leave to run for the Liberals to replace Larry Bagnell, who spent two decades as the territory's Liberal MP. While many ridings in B.C. have remained c...

HALIFAX - Voters in Atlantic Canada loosened Justin Trudeau's grip on the region Monday by delivering a handful of new seats to the Conservatives, signalling a mild rebuke of the Liberal leader's decision to call an election during the pandemic's fourth wave. In the six years since Trudeau won a majority government in ...

MONTREAL - Thirty-six days after his fateful decision to trigger a federal election, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau saw some early warning signs Monday night as results began to roll in for Canada's 44th election. He lost a cabinet minister in Bernadette Jordan after the Liberal-held South Shore-St. Margarets riding in ...

OTTAWA - Liberal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan has been defeated in the South Shore-St. Margarets riding in Nova Scotia by Conservative candidate Rick Perkins. Jordan was first elected as a member of Parliament in 2015 and has served as a minister in Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's government since 20...

OTTAWA - The latest on developments and results in the federal election. All times are eastern. 9:30 p.m. Polls are now closed in Ontario - a key battleground that could determine the outcome of the federal election. In 2019, the Liberals swept Toronto and many of the so-called 905 ridings around the city. There are so...

OSHAWA, Ont. - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is waiting to see if his more moderate approach to issues like climate change, spending and abortion pays off with a victory over his Liberal foe. The 48-year-old is watching the election results roll in at a hockey arena in Oshawa, Ont., after casting a ballot earlier Mo...

VANCOUVER - The NDP are looking for any growth in their caucus as election night started off with the loss of a key seat in Atlantic Canada. St. John's East, the New Democrats only seat in the region, fell to Liberal Joanne Thompson. It was formerly held by Jack Harris, who retired from politics with the onset of the ...

OTTAWA - The final results of the federal election may not be known until Wednesday, election officials have warned, because of almost one million mail-in ballots that will not be opened until Tuesday. A clutch of close-run ridings, where mail-in ballots could prove crucial to the result, may have to wait days for a wi...

KAMLOOPS - Monday (Sept. 20) is the final day to vote in the 2021 federal election and polling stations around the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding have seen a steady flow of voters coming through the doors. Andrea Marantz with Elections Canada says with BC polls closing at 7:00 p.m. there is usually a swell of last mi...

OTTAWA - Canada's first-ever pandemic election culminates today as Canadians from coast-to-coast go to the polls to choose the 338 members of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons. Elections Canada says almost 6.8 million people voted early, most of them at advanced polls over a week ago, and the rest through speci...

TORONTO - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole delivered his starkest plea yet for people not to split the vote on the right by picking the People's Party of Canada on what was his last day before polls open. Conservatives have been ramping up their warnings in recent days against voters going over to Maxime Bernier's more...

MONTREAL - Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet ended his final day of the federal election campaign on Sunday in Quebec ridings he hopes to wrest from his opponents ahead of Monday's election. He began his eleventh-hour push on familiar turf, campaigning in his adopted home city of Shawin...

BURNABY, B.C. - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made a final push for votes in British Columbia by saying his party will fight for people no matter what happens during Monday's election. The New Democrats remain on the offensive during a busy final day in the Lower Mainland, visiting ridings held by Liberals and Conservative...