Mark Carney’s rival,populist Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre,was in the lead until US President Donald Trump took aim at Canada with a trade war and threats to annex the country as the 51st state.
The world is no longer standing in America’s shadow. It is learning,quickly and with no small amount of fear,how to stand on its own.
National broadcaster CBC has called the election,but it’s not yet known whether the Liberals would form a majority government.
The Trump effect has just hit Canada’s election – and it could rub off on Australia’s.
It was the setting for an international hit musical,but most people know little else about this quiet,wind-swept corner of Canada.
Canadian voters will choose their next government largely based on who they think is the best person to deal with the upheaval,threats and animosity being thrown at them from Washington.
Eleven people died - the youngest aged only five - in an incident that has rocked Canada just as voters head to the polls to choose their next government.
Mark Carney is leaning heavily on his outsider status in his appeal to Canadian voters,but it may not be an advantage in the long run.
Delivery driver Ricardo Prada Vásquez was heading to a customer’s address in Detroit when he found himself on a bridge that leads to Canada. What happened next upended his life.
“No,you can’t come this way,” says our guide to the bear confronting us,in the tone of a schoolteacher scolding a teen.