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Updated: 28 October 2026, 9:33 a.m. EDT (Toronto) CBC/Radio-Canada has named five finalists to become Canada’s first Eurovision Song Contest representative and opened a public vote. William Cloutier, Josiane, Rêve, Talk and Tyler Shaw were announced on Tuesday, 27 October, at a special programme and media event in Toronto. Canadians can watch the candidates’ performances and vote through CBC’s Eurovision website . The contest organiser says voters may cast up to ten votes during the voting period, which ends on Thursday, 5 November. The shortlist follows 325 applications. CBC/Radio-Canada’s music teams reduced that field to 15 artists before an expert jury selected the five finalists, assessing factors including vocal ability, stage presence, experience and musical vision. The contenders span several parts of the country: Cloutier is from Quebec, Josiane is an Acadian singer-songwriter from Dieppe, New Brunswick, Rêve is a Montreal-born dance-pop artist, Talk is from Ottawa and Shaw i...

Updated: October 28, 2026, 7:52 a.m. EDT (Toronto) Jacob Fowler made an NHL career-high 46 saves as the Montreal Canadiens beat the St. Louis Blues 2–0 at Enterprise Center on Tuesday, October 27. Zachary Bolduc scored against his former team and Florian Xhekaj added his first NHL goal, according to NHL.com’s game report . Fowler stopped 24 shots in the third period, when St. Louis outshot Montreal 24–3. The shutout was his second of the season and his third in the NHL, extending his personal winning streak to six games. Bolduc opened the scoring at 8:37 of the second period, finishing a Mike Matheson pass with a one-timer from the right circle just after a Montreal power play expired. Xhekaj doubled the lead 2:17 into the third by redirecting Matheson’s shot. A video review confirmed the goal after officials checked for a high stick. Matheson assisted on both goals. The Canadiens improved to 7–3–2 with their third consecutive win and extended their point streak to five games. Jord...

Updated: October 27, 2026, 4:55 p.m. EDT Patrick Brown has won a third term as mayor of Brampton, Ontario, after Monday’s municipal election, with all 164 voting locations reporting in the city’s unofficial count. The City of Brampton’s results dashboard , last updated at 11:32 p.m. on October 26, lists Brown with 65,893 votes, or 54.90 per cent. Wesley Jackson finished second with 23,236 votes and 19.36 per cent, followed by Prabh Gill with 15,257 votes and 12.71 per cent. That puts Brown 42,657 votes ahead of Jackson. The city recorded 123,133 ballots cast across the municipal election, a turnout of 28.77 per cent. Those figures cover the election overall; the mayoral race recorded 120,025 votes. Brown first became Brampton’s mayor in 2018 and won re-election in 2022. His latest campaign emphasised infrastructure, health care, transit and public safety, with a focus on completing projects already under way, The Local reported in its October 26 election coverage . At his victory...

Updated: 27 October 2026, 11:54 a.m. EDT Keanin Loomis has won Hamilton’s mayoral election, with the city’s unofficial results naming him mayor-elect after voting on Monday, 26 October. Incumbent Andrea Horwath finished third, behind Loomis and councillor Rob Cooper. The city’s results dashboard , checked Tuesday morning with all 237 polls reporting, showed Loomis with 61,040 votes, or 41.77%. Cooper had 46,573 votes, or 31.87%, while Horwath received 21,223 votes, or 14.52%. The figures put Loomis 14,467 votes ahead of Cooper. The city recorded 147,196 ballots cast and turnout of 31.59% across the municipality. The results remain unofficial pending certification by the city clerk. CP24 reported Loomis’s victory on Monday night , when most polls had reported. The former Hamilton Chamber of Commerce head most recently served as president and chief executive of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction. The result reverses the outcome of the 2022 mayoral contest, when Horwath defeated...

Updated: 27 October 2026, 5:52 a.m. EDT Matvei Gridin scored twice and added an assist as the Calgary Flames beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–2 at Scotiabank Saddledome on Monday, 26 October, completing a four-game homestand without a defeat. The victory extended Calgary’s winning run to four games and ended Toronto’s own four-game streak. Gridin recorded his first three-point NHL game, while Devin Cooley stopped 26 shots for his fourth consecutive win, according to NHL.com’s game report . Gridin opened the scoring at 10:05 of the first period and Mikael Backlund doubled the lead less than two minutes later. Gridin struck again on the power play just 25 seconds into the second period to make it 3–0. Easton Cowan pulled one back for Toronto before William Nylander narrowed the deficit to 3–2 in the third. Joel Farabee and Martin Pospisil then scored into an empty net to secure the result, which the official NHL game sheet confirms. Auston Matthews assisted on Nylander’s goal for his 800t...

Updated: 27 October 2026, 3:53 a.m. EDT Olivia Chow has won re-election as Toronto mayor after Monday’s municipal vote, defeating challenger Brad Bradford. The CP24–CTV Election Desk declared her victory at 9:59 p.m. on 26 October , and Bradford subsequently conceded. With all 1,431 polls reporting, the city’s unofficial results, updated at 1:10 a.m. on Tuesday , showed Chow with 532,201 votes, or 54.16 per cent. Bradford received 404,013 votes, or 41.11 per cent. That put Chow ahead by 128,188 votes. The totals remain unofficial. The result gives Chow her first full term after she initially became mayor through the 2023 byelection. It also settles a contest that was still being counted when early returns showed her leading with fewer than one-third of polls reporting. Affordability was central to her campaign. Her pledges included freezing TTC fares, making transit free after 10 paid rides a week and expanding school meals to include lunch, CP24 reported . These are campaign commi...

Updated: 26 October 2026, 9:51 p.m. EDT Olivia Chow led Brad Bradford in Toronto’s mayoral election count on Monday night, 26 October, with fewer than one-third of polling locations reporting. The city’s results remained unofficial and no winner had been declared in the race. At the City of Toronto’s 9:49:35 p.m. update , Chow had 209,380 votes, or 52.03 per cent, compared with Bradford’s 173,271 votes, or 43.06 per cent. The mayoral tally included results from 408 of 1,431 polls. The figures are a snapshot of an incomplete count, rather than a final result. The city’s election website updates automatically as additional results arrive and explicitly labels the totals unofficial. CTV News’s election coverage , updated at 9:36 p.m., described the contest between Chow and Bradford as too close to call. It reported that Toronto’s results had been delayed until 9 p.m. after long lines at some polling stations. Chow is seeking to remain mayor, while Bradford left his Beaches–East York counc...