Earthquake in Canada

Canada's May 2 Federal Election changed to landscape of Canadian politics is a big way.
Going in to the election things looked like this:
Conservatives: 143
Liberals: 77
NDP: 37
BQ: 47
Green: 0

With only 143 out of 308 seats in the House of Commons the Conservatives had a minority government. After the Liberal party leader, Michael Ignatieff, introduced a motion of no-confidence against the government it passed which triggered elections.
The led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper Conservatives won a majority government, the Liberals, a long entrenched institution in Canada was pushed back to a distant 3rd place losing not only their official opposition status but Ignatieff lost his own seat to a Conservative. The NDP, a hard left party sky-rocketed into 2nd place with their best ever showing in history by far. Many of the seats they won came at the expense of the BQ, Quebec's separatist party which was nearly wiped off the map completely. Like the Liberals, the BQ also lost the seat of their leader, Gilles Duceppe. But in this case he lost to an NDP candidate.

The new map looks like this.
Conservatives: 167
NDP: 102
Liberals: 34
BQ: 4
Green: 1

Whether or not the Liberals can recover is up for debate but the Bloc Quebecois is finished as a political force in Quebec. And the Conservatives will have at least four years to govern as a majority.

Osama bin Laden is Dead

On May 1 2011 Americans got the news they have been wanting to hear since 9/11. A team of US Navy SEALs raided his compound in Pakistan, not far from a Pakistani military academy. Osama bin Laden was killed along with one of bin Laden's adult sons.
This is great news for the War on Terror and for free people everywhere in the world.