PRINT – EqualityNews (Weekly) – Toronto, 25/10/2019 – EDITORIAL, English Equality joins the immigrant communities in Canada in sending its congratulations to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal team in winning a second term in last Monday’s election. In spite of a strong challenge from Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives, the Liberals managed to eke out […]
This week about 140 election-related articles were analysed, with about half prior to the election results. Major issues covered: Ethnic vote: Chinese, Italian, Latino, Muslim, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Somali and Tamil media all had articles on the importance of voting, the various initiatives to encourage voting and an analysis of the number of ridings where […]
Muslim Link has included statistics from diversityvotes.ca on the immigrant and visible minority populations living in each riding where a Muslim MP was elected. Read the full article at: https://muslimlink.ca/news/muslim-canadians-who-won-in-the-2019-federal-election
WEB – The Korea Times Daily (Daily) – Toronto, 22/10/2019 – COMMENTARY, Korean Jongsu Yoo – Jongsu Yoo, a former professor of Algoma University, writes that the Liberals’ minority victory in the October 21 federal election was as expected. As a winner, the Liberals should take immediate action on the climate change. We cannot wait […]
WEB – Van People (Daily) – Vancouver, 22/10/2019 – ARTICLE, Chinese After twelve hours of voting, the federal Liberals won the election with 158 seats and Justin Trudeau was re-elected as prime minister. Canadian voters were extremely enthusiastic on voting day. The voter turnout also created a new record. There were approximately 4.7 million voters […]
RADIO – Fairchild Radio AM 1430 News Beat (Daily) – Toronto, 21/10/2019 – COMMENTARY, Cantonese Michael Shao – Host Michael Shao said Chinese voter turnout is frequently lowest in comparison to other ethnic voters. Guest “Ken” said there are three types of people who vote: loyal party members, friends of popular candidates, and individuals affected […]
PRINT – Horizon Armenian Weekly – Montreal, 22/10/2019 – ARTICLE, Armenian Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan extended congratulations to Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau on the latter’s electoral victory, Armenpress reports. “Congratulations to Justin Trudeau on his electoral victory. Looking forward to continue building on our strong friendship and partnership for the benefit of our two countries”, […]
WEB – Pagini Romanesti (Twice Monthly) – Montreal, 22/10/2019 – ARTICLE, Romanian Gabriel Purcarus – Not surprisingly, none of the parties in the (election) race managed to get the 170 seats necessary to form a majority government. The Conservative Party’s results were insufficient to overtake the Liberals, due to the fact that the Conservative vote […]
WEB – Van People (Daily) – Vancouver, 21/10/2019 – ARTICLE, Chinese Wang Luo – This year, Canada and China’s relationship has been the tensest it has ever been in history. Canadian pork, canola, and soybean exports to China have all been impacted. All federal party leaders mentioned very little about China and Hong Kong on the […]
RADIO – Guntas Radio on CIAO 530 AM (Daily) – Toronto, 21/10/2019 – PHONE IN, Punjabi Photo Credit: Kevin Van Paassen/Bloomberg/Getty Images Many callers favoured Liberal leader Justin Trudeau as the next Prime Minister. They were of the opinion that Trudeau has good immigration policies. A caller said that Trudeau’s immigration policies favour Canada’s economy. Another caller […]