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Canada Votes 2008
The Reaction — ... CBC will have all the results here. Polls closed here in Ontario at 9:30 pm. Polls in B.C. and the Yukon remain open until 10:00 pm. Results are already slowly trickling in. ...

Canadian Election Results Thread
Swing State Project — ... (minority) government since 1993. Canadian PM Stephen Harper figured that he could squeeze out a majority government with this fall election call, but he hasn't had the smoothest campaign. In his favor, the Liberals aren't exactly burning down the house, either. If I were a betting man, I'd say he retains his minority -- with losses in Quebec and a few modest gains elsewhere. But we'll see. Wikipedia has a good list of races to watch here. Results are available at CBC.ca and Elections Canada. UPDATE: Yup, it's another Conservative ...

Conservatives Win Election, Landslide Possible
The Moderate Voice — ... party is able to form a majority government with 50% plus one seats in Parliament. You need 155 seats for a majority, the Conservatives came in with 124 seats so they needed to gain 31 more. As of this point they were at 125 seats to 75 for the Liberals but many races still uncalled. The Canadian Broadcasting Company has already projected that Harper will remain Prime Minister, the only issue is if he will do so with a majority government. News can be found here Live webcast via C-Span here

Rattling the cage: instability on Canada's political and economic scenes
The Reaction — ... On October 14, 2008, Canadians gave Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper a minority government. Six weeks later, there are rumblings that opposition parties, consisting of the Liberals and the New Democratic Party are in the process of brokering a deal to overturn the Tories to form a ...

Canada's Conservative government faces challenge to its control
American Thinker — Therefore, we could shortly have a new government headed up by the Liberal Party, who won only 26% of the vote in the last election, and a new Prime Minister, St phane Dion, unpopular with his own party, who just announced he was ...

2008 Weblog Awards - Performance Counts!
small dead animals — 2008 Weblog Awards - Performance Counts! As if you needed another reason to vote for smalldeadanimals.com as the leading conservative voice in the North American blogosphere... [image] We managed to get our guy elected. So, let's review, shall we? The 2008 contest for "Best Conservative Blog" offers a field of 14. One nominated blog singlehandedly turned back the liberal hordes in Ottawa and the socialist hordes in Saskatchewan. The other thirteen managed to empower Helen Thomas. So, my dear American conservative cousins - ...