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DARRELL NESBITT/CROSSROADS THIS WEEK
Three school-age children, all donning the right footwear, opted to check out the stream of water flowing through culverts on the afternoon of Thursday, April 24 on Russell Street in Binscarth. While it is all fun and games in the ditches inside town limits, safety precautions are required around fast moving rivers and streams, and especially on local lakes and sloughs, as the spring thaw continues.
RACHEAL FLINTOFT
Crossroads This Week
In an election marked by unprecedented voter turnout, the Liberal Party secured a narrow win in Canada’s 45th federal election on April 28.
As millions of Canadians headed to the polls, this snap election resulted in the highest voter
In addition, the Bloc Québécois picked up 6.4% of the votes, claiming 23 seats, while the NDP, led by Jagmeet Singh, got 6.3% and won Mazier elected for third consecutive term Carney, Liberals achieve narrow win in federal election that saw a historic voter turnout of 67.15 p ercent
turnout in recent history, reaching an impressive 67.15%.
In the Riding Mountain constituency (formerly Dauphin –Swan River – Neepawa), the current Conservative MP, Dan Mazier, kept his seat with a strong 67.4% of the vote, showing solid local support for his political work since first being elected in 2019. Liberal candidate Terry Hayward
followed with 22.5%, while Andrew Maxwell from the NDP and candidates from the People’s Party and Green Party finished behind.
Preliminary results indicate that the Liberals received 43.5% of the votes, giving them 168 seats in Parliament. However, the outcome fell short of the 172 seats required for a majority government, leading to a minority government headed by newcomer Mark Carney. The Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, followed close behind, getting 41.4% of the votes and winning 144 seats, making this election one of the closest in recent memory.
seven seats.
Interestingly, and in an unexpected turn, both Poilievre and Singh lost their seats in their own ridings – at 46.1% of the vote, Poilievre was narrowly defeated by Bruce Fanjoy, who received 50.6% of the vote in their area, and Singh only got 18.1% in his riding.
Jodie Mohr