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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre talks to the kitchen staff during a campaign stop at Tandoori Kona Restaurant, in Richmond, B.C., on Saturday, April 19, 2025.

With about a week left before election day and well over two million ballots cast so far, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre still hasn’t released a costed platform outlining his vision for the country and how he’d pay for his multibillion-dollar commitments.


An Elections Canada sign outside of a polling station in Saskatchewan.

Can you get a second vote if you mess up your first one? The Ask CBC News team is here to help answer that.


A man in military fatigues poses for a photo while standing on an elevated walkway. Below, about eight other soldiers working on a structure in a yard.

When Andriy Tovstiuk, a Ukrainian Canadian veteran, returned to wartime Ukraine in 2023, it caused him to consider important questions about Canada’s defence policies in an increasingly uncertain world.


A bright yellow Elections Canada voting sign is on the right side of the image. On the left is a man and woman walking to vote.

Elections Canada has announced preliminary estimates that show nearly two million electors voted Friday, the first day of advance polls. It’s a record turnout, according to the non-partisan agency.


A man wearing a black suit and turban speaks into a microphone. Behind him a light fixture emitting white light

The party released its platform Saturday, pledging to tax the extremely wealthy — a plan it says would help finance tens of billions in new spending, deliver a tax cut for workers and bolster and expand Canada’s health-care system.


A grey-haired man in a suit waves.

The Liberal Party of Canada is promising to roll out almost $130 billion in new spending over the next four years that, when combined with existing spending, will add $225 billion to the federal debt. 


A grey-haired man in a suit waves.

The Liberal Party of Canada is promising to roll out almost $130 billion in new measures over the next four years that, when combined with existing spending, will add $225 billion to the federal debt. 


A person wearing glases and a grey sweater with overalls holds two dark blue books, one a Canadian passport and the other a U.S. passport, while lifting a palm in the air with a shrug.

Kiva-Marie Belt and their wife have made their home in Canada, but have seen anti-transgender sentiment on the rise in the U.S. spilling over to this country. That’s why acceptance and inclusion of transgender people will be guiding their vote in the federal election.


Surgeons work at the operating table in an operating room.

The election April 28 presents an opportunity to have a say on certain aspects of health care the federal government controls, and to hold lawmakers — and would-be lawmakers — to account, health policy experts say.


Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the right-wing media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada’s Leaders’ Debates Commission.