Airdrie

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will not have a seat in the next Parliament, after a stunning upset by Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy in the riding of Carleton. 

Poilievre's loss raises a host of questions about his ability to continue with the Conservative party leadership, and the role he will play as the House of Commons reconvenes. 

In his concession speech on election night, Poilievre pledged that Conservatives will "do our constitutional duty of holding government to account and proposing better alternatives." 

A Cochrane man is $100,000 richer after a birthday gift from his mother turned into a top prize winner.

Gregory Foley said he was in shock after scratching a $5 CROSSWORD BEE LUCKY Scratch & Win ticket and discovering he’d won the game’s $100,000 top prize.

"I scratched the ticket and saw the win," Foley said in a statement released by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation. "I was in shock! It still feels surreal!"

Airdronian Blake Richards is excited to be back as Airdrie's Member of Parliament for the Airdrie-Cochrane riding.

As of last night, Richards was projected to win the local riding. He had 21,643 votes (72.4 percent), and 138 of the 210 polling stations reported.

Richards is thankful to have been elected to serve his riding again.

"It never stops being an honour to know that people have put their trust in you to be their representative, and it's not something I take lightly, and I'll continue to work with everything I have at that job."

On Saturday, the Royal Canadian Legion Airdrie-Branch #288, along with the Calgary Korean Association, held their annual memorial service to remember the victory of the Battle of Gapyeong.

The event was to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the battle and was held at the new monument just west of the Town and Country Centre.

Keith Shaw, the past president of the Airdrie Legion, explained it was nice to see 50 residents come out and show their support.

"It means a lot to us as legion members. It also means a lot to the Korean Association in Calgary.

At its April 22, 2025, Regular Meeting, Didsbury Town Council approved the 2025 Tax Rate Bylaw.

According to the town, each year, the Town Council approves the budget needed to support Town services.

"To get the amount of revenues required from property taxes, the Town takes the overall expenditure and subtracts all other sources of revenue; the balance is the amount to be raised through municipal property taxes. Council approved a $13.7 million 2025 Operating Budget on March 26, 2025, with the tax-funded portion totalling $5.4 million."

Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to unite the country and govern for all after Canadians handed the Liberals a fourth consecutive mandate in Monday's federal election.

"Who is ready," he shouted to cheers and applause and people chanting his name in a crowded hockey arena in Ottawa in the wee hours of the morning. "Who is ready? Who is ready to stand up for Canada with me? And who is ready to build Canada strong?"

Prime Minister Mark Carney will lead a minority government after a very close general election race that left the Liberals just three seats shy of a majority. 

Just before 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Elections Canada showed the Liberals projected to win 169 ridings after flipping one riding in Quebec from the Bloc Québécois earlier in the day. 

The Conservatives won 144 seats and will form the official Opposition again. The Bloc Québécois followed with 22 seats, the NDP with seven projected seats and the Green Party with one seat.

Jagmeet Singh says he will step down as the leader of the NDP as soon as a new interim leader is chosen.

Singh conceded defeat in his British Columbia riding of Burnaby Central and the party is at risk of losing official party status.

With the NDP at risk of losing official party status — and after losing his own riding — Singh said he'd be stepping down as leader once the party selects an interim replacement.

"We may lose sometimes and those losses hurt," Singh said, fighting emotion as he stood beside his wife on a stage in Burnaby, B.C.

The Canadian Press decision desk is projecting a Liberal government following a short, intense and heated federal election campaign.

As of 10:22 p.m. EDT, the Liberals had received 50 per cent of the popular vote while the Tories held 39 per cent.

Preliminary results for 43 ridings show the Liberals taking 28 seats and the Conservatives holding 21, with the Bloc Québécois holding four seats.

The last polls in British Columbia and Yukon closed at 10 p.m. EDT, following the Prairies and the other territories half an hour earlier.

Traffic is moving again after multiple collisions snarled roads in northeast Calgary Monday afternoon.

Country Hills Boulevard NE between Stoney Trail and 100 Street NE has reopened to two-way traffic after an earlier crash.

Highway 564 near 84 Street NE and northbound Stoney Trail near McKnight Boulevard NE have also cleared, though delays may still linger as congestion eases.

There was no immediate word on injuries.