In the news today: Canada will have to wait on final election result

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Canada will have to wait on final election result

Elections Canada says it has decided to pause counting of special ballots until later Tuesday morning.

A handful of ridings remain too close to call and the move means Canadians won’t know until later in the day whether Mark Carney’s Liberals have won a minority or majority mandate.

The counting is to resume at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Voters returned Carney and the Liberals to power on Monday night, but there were a large number of advanced votes and counting stretched on until early Tuesday morning.

One of the close ridings was Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s. He was trailing his Liberal rival in the Ottawa riding of Carleton.

Here’s what else we’re watching…

Family of 3 killed in festival attack: brother

Richard Le sent a text to his 16-year-old son on Saturday at about 8 p.m., saying he and the teen’s stepmother and little sister would soon leave the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver.

Instead, Le, his wife, Linh Hoang and their five-year-old daughter Katie were run down moments later; the family is among the 11 people killed in a ramming attack, Le’s brother said Monday.

Police and witnesses have said a black SUV raced down a crowded street lined with food trucks, leaving the dead and dozens of injured victims in its wake.

Of the 32 people sent to hospital on Saturday, police say seven people remain in critical condition and three more have serious injuries.

Festival suspect’s brother was killed in 2024

Vancouver Police have confirmed that the suspect in Saturday’s deadly ramming attack that killed 11 people in the city is the brother of a man who died in an unrelated killing last year.

Thirty-year-old Adam Kai-Ji Lo — who has been charged with eight counts of second-degree murder with more charges anticipated — is the brother of Alexander Lo, who was killed in January last year in Vancouver.

A fundraiser was set up by Adam Lo for his brother’s funeral expenses, but it has since been removed from the GoFundMe crowdfunding platform.

Adam Lo wrote that his brother had been killed in a “senseless act of violence” and that despite their “disagreements,” the death had hit him with “overwhelming force.”

A second request for funding was set up by Adam Lo in September 2024, where he said his mother tried to take her own life after his brother’s killing.

Hockey players’ sex assault trial continues

The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team is set to continue today in London, Ont.

Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have all pleaded not guilty to sexual assault in connection with an encounter at a hotel room in the city in 2018.

McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.

Jurors heard the detailed allegations against the players for the first time Monday as the Crown made its opening submissions.

Prosecutor Heather Donkers told the court the complainant felt she had no choice but to go along with what the group of men told her to do inside the hotel room that night.

Ruling today on Quebec daycare bus crash case

A Superior Court judge is to render a decision today on whether a Quebec man is not criminally responsible after he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023, killing two children and injuring six others.

Justice Éric Downs will tell the court whether he accepts the joint recommendation of criminal non-responsibility from the Crown and the defence in the case of Pierre Ny St-Amand.

Separate psychiatrists — one for the Crown, the other for the defence — evaluated Ny St-Amand and came to the same conclusion: it is likely he was experiencing psychosis when he drove the bus into the daycare in Laval, Que., on the morning of Feb. 8, 2023.

Ny St-Amand, a former Laval public transit employee, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, and assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm in relation to the six other children who were injured.

The Crown has said it will seek to have Ny St-Amand declared a “high-risk accused,” a designation that involves stricter rules governing absences from any treatment facility.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 29, 2025.

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