Blacklock’s- Wide Variance In Riding Size

New figures from Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault show a wide variance in the number of voters in federal ridings, a difference of 90,000 or more in some cases. The latest revisions under the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act were to ensure each vote carried the same weight with exceptions in extraordinary cases.

“I have determined the number of names appearing on the revised lists of electors for each electoral district,” Perrault wrote in a legal notice. The most sparsely populated riding in the nation, Labrador, has 19,893 voters. The largest constituency, Niagara South, Ont., has 112,960 voters.

Quick Dick McDick- The Canadian Federal Election (15 min)

Dan Knight- Campaign 2025 : Debate – Mark Carney’s Debate Performance Was All Flash, No Foundation

Late to the debate analysis today—I fell asleep. Literally. That should tell you something. But here’s what I did catch:

CPAC- Federal leaders’ English-language debate – April 17, 2025

A good summary here.

Dan Knight- Campaign 2025 – The Montreal Reckoning, Canada’s Leaders Debate Exposes the Great Divide

And what unfolded over two hours wasn’t just a policy discussion—it was a full-blown national identity crisis.

Because this wasn’t a debate about tweaks to tax rates or transit plans. No, this was a live autopsy of what decades of bureaucratic rule, foreign appeasement, and soft authoritarianism have done to what used to be one of the freest, most prosperous countries on Earth.

National Post- New poll shows Liberals riding ‘fear’ vote, Tories winning ‘hope,’ as gap narrows slightly

The Hub- This week’s leaders’ debates mark a new low for our democracy

We will watch a debate where everything from which leaders are allowed to appear on stage to the specifics of the debate format to who its broadcasts are is determined by a government “commission,” established by the incumbent party and overseen, until recently, by the same government’s favourite political appointee or David Johnston.