Most mail-in ballots will be counted by end of Wednesday, Elections Canada says
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In a number of knife-edge races, candidates were holding their breath to see if mail ballots confirm the results of in-person votes.
A clutch of close-run election ridings, including a nail-biting photo finish in Vancouver Granville, are still waiting for mail ballots to be counted to determine the final result.
But Elections Canada says it expects most of the 850,000 postal votes, which were not counted on Monday night, to be tallied by the end of Wednesday.
A number of ridings that were still too close to call on election night — including Fredericton and Edmonton Centre — were declared on Wednesday for the Liberals after the count wrapped up.
Another, Toronto’s Spadina-Fort York, was declared for Kevin Vuong, who was on the ballot as a Liberal although he’d been disavowed by the party over a late campaign revelation that he’d been charged with sexual assault in 2019. The charge was later dropped but the party has said Vuong will have to sit as an Independent MP.
But in a number of knife-edge races, candidates were holding their breath to see if mail ballots confirm the results of in-person votes.
An analysis of mail ballot results by a public opinion research firm has shown that of all the postal votes counted so far, the majority are from Liberal voters.
A 19-year-old woman accused of stabbing a six-year-old boy in downtown Halifax last month has been ordered to undergo a 30-day psychiatric assessment.
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At the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, the tariff trade war between Canada and the U.S. is leaving flyers who travel between the two countries feeling very uneasy.
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