Voters in Prince Edward Island will go to the polls today after a nearly month-long provincial election campaign. The Progressive Conservatives led by Dennis King are seeking to keep a majority government. At dissolution, the Tories held 15 of the legislature’s 27 seats, the Green Party had eight seats and the Liberals had four. Candidates…

Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard is scheduled to table the first budget of the Coalition Avenir Québec’s second mandate this afternoon. Girard broke with tradition on Monday—instead of buying new shoes ahead of the budget, he announced a $5,000 donation to a Quebec City community centre. He said today’s budget will also include $50 million…

The incumbent four-term Democratic mayor of Buffalo, Byron Brown, declared a victory Tuesday night in his write-in election campaign against self-proclaimed democratic socialist India Walton. Brown, 63, lost to Walton in the June Democratic primary before launching a write-in campaign. On Tuesday, he declared a victory over his opponent after local media reported Walton had won 41 percent of the vote while…

Issues facing Canada’s food system may not capture headlines in the election campaign, but the pandemic’s effects on prices and supply chains have nevertheless thrust them into the public eye.