I tried to remember things that the pastor used to say

Currently at Toronto Pearson: 11. High today: 14, at 1 a.m. and 3 p.m. Dewpoint's been slowly dropping all day from 12 at midnight to 3 at 4 p.m.

For the first time ever, the NDP has won seats in eight out of the ten provinces. The only two provinces they didn't win seats in are PEI and Saskatchewan. Ten years ago you could have won a lot of money betting that the NDP would someday win seats in eight of ten provinces but none in Saskatchewan, the home of Tommy Douglas and the heartland of the CCF. This is the third election in a row that the NDP has won no seats in Saskatchewan. The only other elections in which the NDP didn't win seats in Saskatchewan were the first three elections of its existence, when the prairie-populist Diefenbaker PCs won 50 of 51 seats in 1962, 1963, and 1965. The CCF was never shut out of Saskatchewan.

At least Bill Blaikie's successor beat Alex Steen's father in Winnipeg.