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We have received preliminary data from last weekend’s Advanced Polls. Spoiler alert: A lot of people voted. To be precise, 7.3 million Canadians did. And back in 2021, we saw 5.8 million cast their ballots in the Advanced Polls, marking a 25 percent increase from 4 years ago. Were you one of them? What’s driving you to the ballot box ahead of a pivotal election? Kristy Cameron sifts through the textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Plus, the Ottawa Senators are just hours away from squaring off against the Toronto Maple Leafs, with the bigger brother...
April 22, 2025 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
The Conservatives released their fully-costed today, with more than $31 billion in deficits in store for 2025. Pierre Poilievre is promising to cut $23 billion in government spending over the next 4 years, while also projecting $20 billion in revenue gain from counter-tariffs on the United States. Scrapping programs such as clean electricity regulations, on top of the federal Carbon Tax for industries and residents, is another gameplan that the Tories are cooking up. As expected, the Liberals and NDP are taking aim at Poilievre’s ‘phantom numbers’. CTV’s Judy...
April 22, 2025 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
A new Leger poll, which was conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies, shows that the Liberals and Conservatives are fighting for support from ‘centre voters’. According to the association, the Tories need to convince centrist voters that Liberal leader Mark Carney lacks leadership strength. In this poll, roughly two-thirds of voters that identify as either left or left-of-centre are secured by the Liberals. Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Jack Jedwab, who is one of the brains behind this non-profit independent think tank. Shifting gears to local issues, the federal...
April 22, 2025 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
DELTA, B.C. — First-time Conservative candidate Jessy Sahota hopes to punch his ticket to the notoriously quarrelsome House of Commons in next Monday’s election, but he could easily have ended up in a much different arena of combat.
Sahota, a standout amateur heavyweight wrestler, was in Orlando, Fla., for a tryout with NXT, the developmental brand of pro wrestling juggernaut WWE, in March 2020, just as COVID-19 triggered global lockdowns.
“We’d just made it to NXT’s performance centre when management told us we had to leave because they needed the space for the main roster,” recalls...
April 22, 2025 - 04:00 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
Game 1 of the Battle of Ontario is in the books, as the Toronto Maple Leafs draw first blood. On Tuesday, the Senators have a chance to respond. CTV’s Matt Skube, who is a Leafs fan, delivers his first impressions of this renewed playoff rivalry. Plus, we uncover the latest breaking news as it happens, right here on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
April 21, 2025 - 18:03 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
From a historic day of advanced voting, to the future of Canada’s single-use plastics ban, we got a wide range of reactions on the CFRA textboard today. So instead of tackling a singular Question of the Day, Kristy Cameron tackles two of them! Plus, it’s a Monday afternoon, which means it’s time to welcome back our Political Heat panelists. Today’s main course: Fully-costed platforms. Are they important, and how soon should they be released during an election campaign?
April 21, 2025 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
