Broadcast transcript

(Hamilton, ON) — Good morning. I’m Marcus with The Northern Current for Monday, October twenty-sixth.

It’s election day in Hamilton. Polls open at ten this morning and close at eight tonight. Voters can use any voting location in their own ward. Bring one piece of identification showing your name and home address. A voter information card is not required.

In Ottawa, First Nations leaders are scheduled to meet today with the Prime Minister and premiers. The Assembly of First Nations says the gathering is intended to establish shared priorities, with First Nations setting the agenda.

In British Columbia, the latest preliminary count has the Conservatives leading in sixty-three districts, the NDP in twenty-eight, and the Greens in two. Those are leads, not certified final results.

Overseas, Brazil’s electoral authority says President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection Sunday, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro. Lula received about fifty-one-point-eight per cent of valid votes.

And in basketball, Minnesota beat Toronto one hundred and seventeen to ninety-four Sunday night. The Raptors are now two and one.

I’m Marcus. For local updates, visit The Northern Current.

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