CTV News Delivers Live Primetime Special CTV NEWS: ELECTION 2021 on September 20, Beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT

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TORONTO (September 16, 2021) – CTV News today announced broadcast details for CTV NEWS: ELECTION 2021, Canada’s most comprehensive live federal election special. Airing Monday, Sept. 20 beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT, the special is available on CTV, CTV News Channel, BNN Bloomberg, CTV.ca, CTVNews.ca, and the CTV and CTV News apps.

CTV’s Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme leads CTV NEWS: ELECTION 2021 live from the network’s Election Headquarters, bringing viewers the most up-to-date results and reactions throughout the evening. LaFlamme is joined by the network’s trusted team of correspondents reporting from coast-to-coast-to-coast.

Joining LaFlamme to provide in-depth analysis are Evan Solomon, host of CTV’s QUESTION PERIOD and POWER PLAY; BNN Bloomberg’s Amanda Lang; CTV News National Affairs Correspondent Omar Sachedina; and CTV National News’ Washington Correspondent Richard Madan. YOUR MORNING co-host Anne-Marie Mediwake is in conversation with a diverse group of voters, reacting in real-time to the election results.

CTV NEWS: ELECTION 2021 also features live, up-to-the-minute reporting from CTV National News correspondents stationed at key locations across the country, and at the headquarters of every major federal party, including Senior Political Correspondent Glen McGregor; Parliamentary Correspondents Annie Bergeron-Oliver, Creeson Agecoutay, and Kevin Gallagher; CTV News Channel anchor Merella Fernandez; Quebec Bureau Chief Genevieve Beauchemin, and CTV News Toronto’s Queen’s Park Bureau Chief Colin D’Mello.

CTV News’ coverage also includes an esteemed panel of political veterans, including Rona Ambrose, former Interim Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition; Navdeep Bains, Liberal Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Malton and former Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry; Olivia Chow, former NDP Member of Parliament for Trinity-Spadina; and Jody Wilson-Raybould, Independent MP for Vancouver-Granville and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Providing additional commentary are Jenni Byrne, Former Senior Advisor to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper; Farouk Karim, former NDP Caucus Press Secretary; and Scott Reid, former Senior Advisor to Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin.

Rounding out the analysis throughout the evening are McGill University Political Science Professor Antonia Maioni; CTV News’ official pollster and Chief Data Scientist, and Founder of Nanos Research, Nik Nanos; and Senior Vice President and Practice Leader at Environics Analytics, Rupen Seoni.

Rosa Hwang is Executive Producer of CTV NEWS: ELECTION 2021. Wendy Freeman is VP, CTV News.

CTV News Digital Platforms For live results as they happen, viewers can stream CTV NEWS: ELECTION 2021 on CTVNews.ca and the CTV News app, and can also access an interactive election results map, providing real-time results, allowing users to track the races in ridings across the country.

The network’s dedicated election site features comprehensive, up-to-the-minute news coverage, political analysis, interactive features, profiles of the major party leaders, and a guide to each party’s platforms. The site includes live updates from the campaign trail, featuring context, fact-checks, and breaking news as it happens. Canadians can also track the trajectory of support for each party in the days leading up to the election, based on daily polling updates from Nanos, and read exclusive opinion columns from a multitude of political commentators such as Thomas Mulcair, Pam Palmater, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, and Don Martin.

Readers can access CTV News’ award-winning Truth Tracker fact-checking series, featuring investigations from Madan and CTVNews.ca.

Readers can subscribe to CTVNews.ca’s daily Election Dispatch newsletter, providing insights and analysis from CTV News Ottawa Bureau Digital Producer Rachel Aiello; listen to the TREND LINE podcast, in which Nanos and CTV News’ Michael Stittle discuss the daily polling numbers; and download the CTV News app for exclusive federal election alerts.

Canadians can follow CTV News on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for additional coverage and updates.

YOUR MORNING As Canadians get up and get ready to vote on election day, and as they wake up to a new government on Tuesday, Sept. 21, CTV’s YOUR MORNING delivers all the key information they need surrounding the election. Airing from 6 – 9 a.m. ET on CTV, CTV News Channel, and the CTV app, YOUR MORNING covers all the latest election developments and comprehensive results, as well as full analysis of key regions and ridings, and feedback from Canadians in communities across the country.

CP24 CP24’s YOUR VOTE 2021 brings GTA viewers up-to-the-minute election news throughout the evening, beginning at 7 p.m. ET on CP24 and streaming on CP24.com and the CP24 app. Stephanie Smyth and Nick Dixon co-anchor the station’s extensive coverage of the federal political landscape combined with a detailed focus on GTA ridings. They are joined by a seasoned panel including former senior Ontario cabinet minister Janet Ecker; former MP Ruby Dhalla; former federal NDP leadership candidate and strategist Brian Topp; political strategist Don Guy; and former press secretary to Doug Ford and Toronto Sun Editor-in-Chief Adrienne Batra. With journalists delivering reports from across the region’s ridings and positioned with the federal party leaders, CP24 YOUR VOTE 2021 delivers a unique GTA-focused perspective on the election results.