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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
OTTAWA/TORONTO (Worthy News) – Millions of Canadians are heading to the polls Monday in early elections overshadowed by the bloodshed in Vancouver, where a car hit a festival crowd over the weekend, killing 11, and concerns about future relations with the United States.
The snap federal election has focused on how the candidates would respond to U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s threats of tariffs and his call to make Canada the 51st state.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, the current leader of the Liberal Party, called the election in March, shortly after taking over from former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. His primary opponent in the race is Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
When Canada’s Parliament was dissolved last month after the election call, the Liberals had 152 seats, the Conservatives had 120, the Bloc Québécois (33), the New Democrat Party (24), and the Green Party (2) held the rest of the seats.
Preliminary results will likely come in late on Monday night or early on Tuesday morning, local time. But officials double-check vote totals after the election.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had resumed his election campaign on Sunday after a brief pause after at least 11 people were killed and dozens injured when a man drove through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in Vancouver.
The opposition Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, who a few months ago had a 20-point lead in polls, are expected to lose Monday’s election to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals.
Analysts have linked the expected victory to Carney’s tough words for U.S. President Trump.
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Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire that was to begin Friday afternoon, Worthy News learned.
At least 10 people, including four children, were injured in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian authorities said Friday. In southern Ukraine, the State Emergency Service reported that one person was killed and four others were injured in a separate Russian attack on the Odesa region.
President Donald Trump signed the temporary peace deal with Iran ahead of schedule Wednesday at the Palace of Versailles in France, kicking off negotiations over a final nuclear deal.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s statement following the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the United States is being viewed by analysts not as an embrace of peace, but as a carefully crafted declaration that preserves Tehran’s revolutionary posture while allowing the regime to regroup.
The United States imposed new sanctions Thursday on individuals and entities linked to Hezbollah, accusing them of using political and financial influence to obstruct Lebanon’s peace process and delay the Iran-backed group’s disarmament.
Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks on Moscow since the war began, hitting a key oil refinery and other targets around the Russian capital, leaving at least one person dead and numerous others injured, Russian officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Southeast Asian leaders in Kazan this week as Moscow moved to deepen ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and promote its vision of a “multipolar world order” aimed at countering U.S. global dominance.
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