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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will promote a high-ranking public servant who helped oversee consultations with First Nations prior to the government's 2016 approval of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

The Conservatives have stolen a Quebec riding away from Justin Trudeau's ruling Liberals, in the first test of Andrew Scheer's effort to recreate the nationalist-conservative coalition that helped federal Tories dominate the province in the 1980s.

Andrea Horwath says it's a "new beginning" for the Ontario NDP, now the province's official Opposition party after Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives won a majority government.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath handily won her Hamilton-Centre riding Thursday night, though hopes of being Ontario's next premier were dashed just half an hour after polls closed.

The voting process, like the campaign that preceded it, was not without complications.Voting hours in several locations were extended anywhere from 20 minutes to four hours beyond the 9 p.m. closing time in the rest of the province.

A look at the top five promises made by each of the three major Ontario political parties heading into Thursday's election.

The Ontario election is a fork in the road for Toronto, but only the NDP has offered a map.

Facing a barrage of poor polling numbers for her Ontario Liberals, a subdued Premier Kathleen Wynne said on Friday she would keep doing what she can to push her party's accomplishments in government.

For months, a​mong political pollsters and insiders, there's been quite the buzz around Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath’s chances in this election. What's next?

New Democrat MP Christine Moore has disputed retired corporal Glen Kirkland's account of her behaviour, providing The Canadian Press with photos, emails, text messages and flight itineraries to show that the two were involved in a romantic relationship.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called a byelection for the Quebec riding of Chicoutimi-Le Fjord, only days after pledging $60 million in federal funding for an aluminum-smelting project in the area.

In an exclusive interview, NDP MP Christine Moore told The Canadian Press she intends to bring a defamation lawsuit against Glen Kirkland, as well as columnists Neil Macdonald, Christie Blatchford and Rosie DiManno, who reported on the matter.

The suspension of the NDP rural affairs critic from her duties comes roughly three months after her then-caucus colleague, Regina MP Erin Weir, was similarly suspended. Moore helped prompt that investigation into Weir, who has now been booted from caucus, by emailing second-hand allegations that Weir had harassed several women.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sidestepped questions raised in the House of Commons on Tuesday about secret instructions delivered in 2016 to public servants working on the federal review of the Trans Mountain expansion project.

The NDP is hoping MPs from other parties will join them in issuing a formal invitation to Pope Francis to apologize to residential school survivors.