AMERICANS TEND NOT TO NOTICE THESE THINGS, but they’re having a big election in Canada today. Canadian readers: Please send me links to any particularly interesting news. Meanwhile, Colby Cosh is blogging them.

UPDATE: Tories retain power, Layton opposition leader, CBC projects. Reader Michael Hanley writes: “I’m in Calgary, an American expat, and hoping that the lessons of the massive defeat of the Liberal party here in CA is a harbinger of the permanent rise of the Conservatives. Looks like the Tories will be close to their own majority outright. They are 13 away from a majority. The worry is the NDP and their good showing. They are enthusiastic, but plan to spend their way into power.”

And more Canadian election-blogging at The Surly Beaver.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Maneuvering? CBC Breaks Results Embargo. “In an apparent mistake — and clear contravention of Elections Canada laws — CBC News Network briefly broadcast results from Atlantic Canada to viewers in other parts of the country that were still voting.”

MORE: Reader Matt Corbett writes: “A big taxing, big spending, corrupt Liberal political party led by an ex-Harvard ‘intellectual’ with little practical experience has just been obliterated by market friendly and fiscally conservative leadership. In Canada. America are you watching?”