Sarah Mills: It's a dream come true - I get to see England in the World Cup
After months of waiting and wading through FIFA's Kafkaesque ticket-buying process, Sarah Mills finally has tickets to s...
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Canadians gather in-person and virtually for U.S. 'cliffhanger' but result elusive
Canadians and Americans living in Canada huddled around TV and computer screens across the country Tuesday night to watch the results of the divisive U.S. presidential election rolled in but a quick d...
Nov 03, 2020
EXPLAINER: From the 2020 election, some new political terms
WASHINGTON - "So 2020" is a new phrase that made its way into America's political lexicon this year. It has come to describe all things unexpected, unsettling and unprecedented. This includes the vitr...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: Senate majority outcome may take weeks or more
WASHINGTON - Thirty-five U.S. Senate seats are on the ballot Tuesday, which will determine control of the legislative chamber for the next two years. But due to election law quirks in the states of Ge...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: Election unprecedented some ways, in others not
The election of 2020 has been called many things: extraordinary, bizarre, unprecedented. It's all true, in some ways, though the election is still being held on the first Tuesday after the first Monda...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: Calling a race is tricky: How AP does it
WASHINGTON - In the 2020 U.S. general election, The Associated Press will declare winners in more than 7,000 races - starting with the White House and reaching down the ballot to every seat in every s...
Nov 02, 2020
Tradition: 2 New Hampshire towns cast votes after midnight
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. - Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: US vote is 51 elections, one in each state and DC
A major misconception about the vote for U.S. president is that it is a national election. It's not. Instead, it consists of 51 elections - one in each state and in the District of Columbia. And that'...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: Pandemic to factor into inauguration planning
WASHINGTON - Every four years at the stroke of noon on Jan. 20, the president-elect or the reelected president of the United States takes the oath of office for a four-year term. The inaugural ceremon...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: They lost the popular vote but won the elections
Five times in U.S. history, candidates have lost the popular vote but won the presidency - most recently in 2016. Could Donald Trump be the first to do it twice? A look at an American political anomal...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: What's 270? The math game behind the US election
WASHINGTON - What's all this hubbub about 270? It's not about the 270 whales stranded this fall on Australia's island state of Tasmania. It's not about congestion on Interstate 270 feeding commuters i...
Nov 02, 2020
OPINION
Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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