Watch: CBC Cape Breton hosts two all-candidates' debates

CBC Communications | Posted: April 3, 2025 6:40 PM | Last Updated: April 11

Riding debates were held April 8 at Centre 200, Sydney and April 10 at Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre

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CBC Cape Breton hosted two all-candidates' debates for the upcoming federal election.

Steve Sutherland, host of CBC Radio's Information Morning Cape Breton, moderated both debates for the newly defined ridings of Sydney-Glace Bay and Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish.

Watch the Sydney-Glace Bay debate

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Candidates on the ballot in the Sydney-Glace Bay riding were invited to participate in the debate at Centre 200 in Sydney.

Canadian Future Party - Chris Gallant
Conservative - Anna Manley
Independent - Joe Ward
Liberal - Mike Kelloway
Libertarian - Mike Pittman
Marxist-Leninist Party - Nik Boisvert
NDP - Kimberly Losier
PPC - Jeffrey Evely

Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish debate

Thursday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m.
Candidates in the Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish riding were invited to participate in the debate at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, 606 Reeves Street. The debate will be held in the centre's Bear Head Room.

Conservative - Allan MacMaster
Independent - Rebecca Wall
Liberal - Jaime Battiste
NDP - Joanna Clark
PPC - Ryan Smyth

Doors open at 6 p.m. Registration is not required.

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Watch online

If you can't be there in person, watch the debates on cbc.ca/ns or the CBC News Nova Scotia YouTube channel.

CBC Radio is also recording the debates and will air excerpts on Information Morning and Mainstreet in Cape Breton leading up to the federal election on April 28.