Watch live: Sydney-Glace Bay all-candidates debate from CBC Cape Breton
Steve Sutherland, host of CBC Radio's Information Morning Cape Breton, will moderate on Tuesday April 8, starting at 6:30 p.m. AT.
All candidates on the ballot in the Sydney-Glace Bay riding have been invited to participate in the debate at Centre 200 in Sydney. The following candidates have agreed to take part:
Canadian Future Party - Chris Gallant
Conservative - Anna Manley
Independent - Joe Ward
Liberal - Mike Kelloway
Marxist-Leninist Party - Nikki Boisvert
NDP - Kimberly Losier
PPC - Jeffrey Evely
Doors open at 6 p.m and registration is not required. The debate will be livestreamed here, and on the CBC News Nova Scotia YouTube channel.
A second debate for the riding of Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish will take place Thursday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m.
All candidates have been 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.
The list of candidates is not yet complete as nominations officially close on April 7. Details on confirmed candidates will be available on April 9.
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.
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