Greetings LINC 7 Students!

In honour of Canada's federal election today, here's a link to a story on Breaking News English about how women in Saudi Arabia are getting the vote. They are also running for office as candidates!

Remember that you can easily change the reading speed by clicking below the "reading box". This link takes you to 200 words per minute (wpm) reading speed but you can challenge yourself by making it 300 wpm.


Canadian Election 2015  (for some real practice reading graphs and charts!!)

Here's a graph of the polling trends (from Wikipedia). Note that the trend for the Liberals has been continuously upward to the high 30s (about 37-38%), while support for the Conservatives has dipped down to the low 30s (about 32-33%).

Here's a website that has made some predictions (projections) about the election results. If you look at the chart, you can see that the Liberals are projected to win between 124 and 161 seats, putting them just below the 170-seat mark required for a majority. Note that 170 is 50% (half or 169) + 1 of the 338 seats. The number of seats (and ridings) in the election is 338, an increase of 30 seats from the 308 seats comprising the House of Commons (= Canadian Parliament) right now.


If this projection is correct, it would mean a LIBERAL MINORITY GOVERNMENT.

Please check out the CBC Poll Tracker to see the latest projections -- updated regularly during this evening! Right now (1 pm PDT), the Liberals have support of 37.2% of Canadian voters.

We will see tonight!