Ottawa

Conservatives win: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party won an outright majority this week in parliamentary elections that radically changed the political landscape. The leftist New Democrats surged to second place under leader Jack Layton, earning for the first time the role of the country’s official opposition. The center-left Liberals, Canada’s oldest and historically most successful party, finished a distant third as it shed votes in its traditional stronghold of Toronto, while the separatist Bloc Québécois took just four seats. With the pro-business Conservatives pitted against the social-democratic New Democrats in the new parliament, Canada now has “something approaching a two-party system,” wrote Adam Radwanski in the Toronto Globe and Mail.

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