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FALL RIVER\/ELMSDALE:<\/strong> Canadians will be heading to the polls on April 28 as the writ dropped on a federal election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On what looked like a cold Sunday afternoon in Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that he had requested the Governor General that parliament be dissolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Governor General Mary Simon obliged, sending Canadians to the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Voting day will be April 28 when Canadians will elect their next federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Kings-Hants, Incumbent Kody Blois will be the Liberal candidate looking to get re-elected for a second time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He had just been given the role of Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Rural Economic Development after Craney announced his new cabinet after he was sworn in as PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He will be up against Conservative Joel Hirtle, who will look to unseat Blois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was no NDP, Green Party or People\u2019s Party of Canada candidates officially known as of March 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”206″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Sackville-Bedford-Preston, the riding will be aligned with the Chezzetcook portion removed and Bedford added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will also see a new MP after nine years as Liberal Darrell Samson announced he was not reoffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking to replace Samson with the Liberal colours is former provincial MLA Braedon Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dave Carroll, known for his music and United Breaks Guitars fame, will carry Conservative colours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ryan Slaney will be running as the People\u2019s Party of Canada candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No Green Party or NDP candidate were known as of March 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”235″] [adrotate banner=”188″] FALL RIVER\/ELMSDALE: Canadians will be heading to the polls on April 28 as the writ dropped on a federal election. On what looked like a cold Sunday afternoon in Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that he had requested the Governor General that parliament be dissolved. Governor General Mary Simon obliged, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8013,957],"tags":[93,146,196,2,2105,1281,7682,25,6524],"class_list":["post-53257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vote2025","category-news","tag-darrell-samson","tag-dave-carroll","tag-east-hants","tag-fall-river","tag-kings-hants-2","tag-kody-blois","tag-mark-carney","tag-sackville","tag-sackville-bedford-preston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}