Federal election ballots are still counted by hand. It could be a long night.
Campaigns may have gone high tech, but votes are still counted the old fashioned way—one by one on folded paper ballots
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Google predicted the 2015 election. Here’s what it says about election 2019.
Jason Kirby: If Google search interest in the leaders can predict how Canadians vote, Jagmeet Singh will be the story of this election
How Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer could both lose
Stephen Maher: Without a majority, both the Liberal and Conservative leaders will have failed in key ways, and their parties could push for change
Over to you Canada
Politics Insider for Oct. 21: Final 338Canada projection, how the leaders spent their last campaign weekend and Trudeau needs an Alberta plan
The final 338Canada projection: The most uncertain federal election in decades
Philippe J. Fournier: The night before the election, there is no certainty in the numbers. We could end up with the first popular vote and seat split in 40 years.
Trudeau needs an Alberta unity strategy if he wins
And yes, it will have to include a pipeline
Why is this tree cheating on Elizabeth May and the Greens?
Election Image of the Day: Jagmeet Singh takes a campaign swing through the Green Party’s stomping grounds—a sure sign he feels he has the upper hand on them
The Liberal supporters who’d like Trudeau held to a minority. Yes, they exist.
Politics Insider for Oct. 18: Scheer’s carbon tax kill-date, minority muddle and déjà-Trudeau
Code blue: Which Tory wore his nondescript shirt better?
Election Image of the Day: You know a sartorial trope is getting tired when you and the boss show up to an event looking very much alike
Trudeau’s incredibly close election battle—in 1972
Pierre Trudeau’s biographer talks about how Justin Trudeau’s second campaign looks remarkably like his father’s sophomore run