1) Based on the roughly one hour of coverage I’ve watched, the best line of the night so far came from pundit Warren Kinsella on SunTV. At about 8:50pm, he noted that the Conservatives “can’t win a seat in Calgary twice.” I’m sure this isn’t the first time someone has used this line, but it gets to one of the major themes this evening – will the Conservatives be able to make inroads in places like Ontario where they’ve had trouble getting traction? 

2) For all you hard-core politics data fiends tuning in tonight, your best bet in terms of TV coverage (at least from what I’ve seen) seems to be the French CBC. I got dizzy as the election night news team zipped through a riding-by-riding breakdown of the race in Quebec and BC. Merci, tout le monde – the French CBC is head and shoulders above the other networks in terms of getting into the nitty-gritty details. Even with my very limited French, their coverage isn’t too hard to follow.