TODAY: Canadians Go To The Polls

USA Today reports on today’s election in Canada:

A young liberal leader with a famous pedigree in Canada, Justin Trudeau, threatens to upend nearly 10 years of conservative leadership under Prime Minister Stephen Harper as Canadians go to the polls Monday. Harper, who has held power longer that most major Western leaders, hopes to capture a rare fourth term in the parliamentary elections and vanquish Canada’s perception as a solidly liberal nation. But polls show him trailing Liberal Party leader Trudeau, 43, the oldest of three sons of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau. Harper, 56, campaigned Saturday at a Conservative Party rally in Toronto promoted by the Ford family, including Rob Ford, the scandalized former mayor who made headlines because of his public drunkenness and for using crack cocaine. Harper later posed for a picture with Ford and his family that the ex-mayor later tweeted.

Canadians have the right to three consecutive hours off of work to vote.