Conservatives trump Canadian elections

Michael Barone, senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, has coverage of yesterday's Canadian elections that saw a Conservative win. His closing paragraph:

Going into this election, center-right parties were in various kinds of minority status in the four major Anglosphere democracies, as the minority party of government in Canada, as the dominant party in a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in the United Kingdom, as the minority party by virtue of a couple of independent MPs in Australia and as controlling the House of Representatives but without a majority in the Senate and without the White House in the United States. Now the Conservatives are the majority party of government in Canada. An omen?

There's more Canadian coverage from Opinion Online Editor David Freddoso here and here, and from Neil Hrab. More election updates from CBC.

USA imports mostly Canadian oil

DJ at Right-Wing Liberal has come across some interesting information about oil import in this country:

Odds are Gore doesn’t realize this, few people actually do. However, the Energy Information Administration (stat-keeper for the Department of Energy) has been tracking delineated oil imports since the early 1990s. Here’s the stunning fact: since 2004, the largest exporter of oil to the United States is not Saudi Arabia; it’s Canada.

Hard to argue with facts....

Thank you, Canada ... Winter Olympics conclude

Oh, Canada
Our home and native land,
True patriot love
In all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts
We see thee rise,
The true, north, strong, and free.
From far and wide
Oh Canada
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land
Glorious and free.
Oh, Canada we stand on guard for thee,
Oh, Canada
we stand on guard for thee.