Countdown to byelection results has begun, as voters from ridings University-Rosedale, Scarborough Southwest, and Terrbonne cast their ballots.

This evening’s results could make governing easier, as Liberals are projected to take two out of the three ridings.

iPolitics will have liveblog coverage of tonight’s vote. A link to tonight’s blog is available here once it goes live at 6 p.m.

But, more on that later — here’s the other news of the day:

The Ford government is introducing its long-awaited changes to Ontario’s education system, saying that stronger oversight and standardized learning are needed to improve student outcomes and rein in what it calls widespread governance failures at the school board level.

Education Minister Paul Calandra tabled the Putting Student Achievement First Act this Monday, legislation that will reshape how school boards operate, how students are evaluated and how classrooms are run across the province.

The bill would cap the number of trustees at 12 and limit trustee expenses and honorariums. Trustees would also be required to cover certain membership and conference costs out of pocket.

The government is also proposing a restructuring of senior leadership. Directors of education would be reclassified as chief executive officers responsible for financial and operational oversight, and a new chief education officer role would focus on student achievement and require teaching credentials.

Queen’s Park reporter Barbara Patrocinio has more. 

NDP Leader Avi Lewis hosts his first press conference on the Parliament Hill today, and he’s spearheading food affordability as his main policy.

The solution? Calling on Carney to put a national ban on surveillance pricing.

Lewis, along with the six NDP caucus members, announced the party will be zeroing in on the cost-of-living policies in light of rising grocery and rent prices.

Surveillance pricing, a practice already being examined in Manitoba, happens when companies take users’ data, browsing habits or location to tailor what consumers see and what they’re willing to pay.

“We know that the rise in the cost of living, especially food prices, is already untenable for so many Canadians, and now grocery giants and other retailers are teaming up with big tech to squeeze people even more,” Lewis said.

Lewis said the Liberals will only move on AI regulation once public outrage reaches a tipping point.

Read more from Sydney Ko. 

The Liberals may be widely expected to walk away from Monday’s three byelections with a clear majority, but the pressure is still on for them to fight for the hotly contested Terrebonne riding.

Sunday marked the final day of campaigning before the parties rev up their get-out-the-vote efforts, and party organizers say it’s all hands on deck.

The Liberals have been pulling out all the stops to hold onto the Montreal suburb in Quebec after winning it by a single vote last year, then seeing that result nullified by the courts.

Political analyst Philippe Fournier of the polling aggregator site 338Canada said holding onto the riding would give the governing party a boost and show they still have momentum after the last election.

But if Carney’s Liberals lose Terrebonne to the Bloc Québécois, that would send a signal that they are “not so invincible” and the Bloc could be starting to rebound.

The Canadian Press has more. 

In Other Headlines

Internationally

Elsewhere, Hungary’s prime minister-elect, Péter Magyar, has pledged to pursue those who “plundered, looted, betrayed, indebted and ruined” his country, promising “a new era” after a landslide election victory over his far-right predecessor Viktor Orbán.

Magyar, whose centre-right Tisza party won at least 138 of the 199 seats in parliament, said the full election results should be confirmed by 4 May and he hoped his government could be installed the next day.

“Our country has no time to waste,” he said during a wide-ranging press conference on Monday. “We will do everything in our power to ensure this truly marks the beginning of a new era … The Hungarian people didn’t vote for a simple change of government, but for a complete change of regime.”

Magyar, a former Orbán loyalist, secured a decisive two-thirds supermajority that should allow him to roll back laws that helped the outgoing nationalist prime minister transform Hungary into an “illiberal democracy” during his 16 years in power.

The Guardian has more. 

Meanwhile, President Trump’s erratic behavior and extreme comments in recent days and weeks have turbocharged the crazy-like-a-fox-or-just-plain-crazy debate that has followed him on the national political stage for a decade.

A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane statements capped by his “a whole civilization will die tonight” threat to wipe Iran off the map last week and his head-spinning attack on the “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” pope on Sunday night have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power.

The White House rejected such assessments, saying that Mr. Trump is sharp and keeping his opponents on edge. But the president’s eruptions have raised questions about America’s leadership in a time of war. While the country has had presidents whose capacity came under question before, most recently the octogenarian Joseph R. Biden Jr. as he aged demonstrably before the public’s eyes, never in modern times has the stability of a president been so publicly and forensically debated — and with such profound consequences.

Democrats who have long challenged Mr. Trump’s psychological fitness have issued a fresh chorus of calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from power for disability. But it is not just a concern voiced by partisans on the left, late-night comics or mental health professionals making long-distance diagnoses.

More from the New York Times. 

In Other International Headlines

The Kicker

While some 4,000 Liberals packed into Montreal over the weekend for the convention, one former Prime Minister was a little further west, at Coachella.

Trudeau probably caught Justin Bieber’s set under the desert lights, and he may have dropped the title of prime minister, but safe to say he’s still holding onto the “prime” part.

On a more serious note, iPolitics will be keeping a live blog on byelection results.

It’s set to kick off at 6 p.m., make sure to check back here for more.

Have a great evening!