Election Day in Canada

Canadian voters are at the polls today, after enduring (a mere) 37 days of campaigning, so little compared to so much in the US. It’s been an interesting campaign, with an early Conservative lead diminishing, leaving most observers with the impression that the next Tory government will again be in the minority, although perhaps with a few more seats. We’ll know tomorrow.

Election results are blacked out until local polls close, a law that worked in the days of terrestrial radio and TV, but is now basically unworkable. Newspaper and other media web sites shut down their election coverage until polls close in the far west, and satellite subscribers get blacked out channels, but that will hardly stop bloggers and twitterers, who will be among the principle sources of news for those who want to follow the election as it unfolds.

• * CBC News: Canada Votes
• * The Globe and Mail
• * MediaScout
• * Chantal Hébert (one of the best political columnists in the country)