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  • As of today, we are about 14 days away from the election

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Data on your district:

Find your riding, your local elections canada office, and your candidates:



Ways to vote (full details)


Vote on election day (April 28)

Check the hours for your timezone

Check your polling station on your voter information card or by using the Voter Information Service website.


Vote on advance polling days at your ASSIGNED polling station

They run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on:

  • Friday, April 18
  • Saturday, April 19
  • Sunday, April 20, or
  • Monday, April 21

The rules for voting on advance polling days in the federal election differ from those of some provincial elections, where you can vote at any advance voting place in the province. You cannot do the same in the federal election. If you choose to vote during advance polling days, you must vote at your assigned polling station. To find your advance polling station, check your voter information card or use the Voter Information Service. [same links as above]

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Vote early at any Elections Canada office by April 22, 6 p.m.

Uses the special ballot process (see this link for how special ballots are different from regular ballots)

Find your nearest Elections Canada office

Hours:

  • Monday to Friday: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
  • Saturday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  • Sunday: noon to 4 p.m.

Vote by mail

Uses the special ballot process (see this page for deadlines for when you can apply for one, and when they must receive it by. It also has information on what you must do differently when filling out this ballot)

Remember: Once you apply to vote by special ballot, you can't change your mind and vote at advance polls or on election day.

If you want to vote by mail, apply as soon as possible: elections.ca/voting-by-mail

You will need to upload copies of your proof of ID. See the list of accepted ID: elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=id.


Other Resources

Common elections related misinformation:

Guides for fighting disinformation by the Government of Canada:

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Elections Canada has released this resource with some common bits of false or misleading content about elections on social media: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=dis&document=index&lang=e

~~We plan on pinning this resource, and we are proposing the following rules:~~

edit: Thank you for the feedback everyone, these adjusted rules will be enforced:

  • Posts or comments with inaccurate or misleading information from this list will be removed, and users are encouraged to report them
  • Repeatedly posting such content will result in a ban from the community until April 28 (at a minimum)

So far we haven't noticed any serious issues, but we want to get ahead of anything that might come up

You can also see these guides by the Government of Canada:

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Allegations that the United Conservative Party government pressured Alberta Health Services to accept exorbitant contracts to operate chartered surgical facilities in Edmonton, Red Deer and Lethbridge have dominated the news in Alberta since February.

Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos’s allegation that she was fired for scrutinizing these contracts has created a scandal dubbed “CorruptCare” by the NDP Opposition.

Rather than being an isolated incident, the CorruptCare scandal represents the result of the contracting out and hollowing out of public health care in Alberta.

Whether it’s chartered surgical facilities, privatized laboratory services or contract nursing agencies, repeated instances of introducing the profit motive to the provision of public health-care services show that privatization tends to increase health-care costs.

And why wouldn’t it? Corporations exist to maximize profit, not to provide public services.

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I mean, sure, it's not as population dense as the USA, or Mexico, but Canada is huge, your people are nice, you have some of the best entertainment companies on the planet (namely Cirque du Soleil and Pornhub), your natural resources and attractions are unbelievable and your actors are the best (especially the BSG/Chronicles of Riddick cast).

And yet, as an Italian with an international perspective (lived abroad for the last 16 years and visited the USA and South America repeatedly), I have been not "Canada-aware" for most of my life.

I get it that you are not boasting like your neighbors (and that alone makes you better than them imho), but how come that I was left to realize only today that the Manitoba flour I used to make pizza all my life takes its name from one of your provinces, while I know about all the shitty pizzas the US made up in a century.

Same thing goes for Latin American countries, even the ones I never visited, like Mexico or Argentina.

I shall visit soon and I hope you can take the chance to teach me more in the meanwhile.

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C'mon guys this is such an easy win for us as a country. Justin went a little too far with his style of governing for a lot of you and now the liberals have voted this guy to be it's leader and new PM. This is who we want to lead us into the second half of the 20th century, this guy is so fucking smart. Pierre just sings slogans and simple pretty things that sound nice but in reality he's just going to sell us off to American interests and cut the things that help working people.

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"I know why, and it's because my president is threatening to annex your country."

It's far more than that. The Trump administration is lawless, ignoring and defying the courts, and trampling on the constitution. My son's school just cancelled a long planned trip to New York City because of the very real risk that one of more of the children in the trip might be held, handcuffed, and thrown in ICE detention for days or weeks. Under the current authoritarian regime it is unsafe for anyone to travel to the US.

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An MLA and former minister just removed from the United Conservative Party caucus alleges the health minister — and possibly the premier — withheld information from cabinet ministers deciding the fate of the Alberta Health Services board of directors.

Inside the legislative chamber on Wednesday, Guthrie tabled to the clerk a February 25, 2025, letter that he had sent to Premier Danielle Smith on the day he resigned from cabinet as infrastructure minister.

In the letter, he said ministers attending a health cabinet committee meeting on Jan. 30, 2025, were "deliberately misled," which led to the government firing AHS board members the next day. He said he could not abide those actions.

"If we can normalize such deception in government business practices, what other indiscretions may emerge?" Guthrie's letter says.

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