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Canadians Head to Polls for Federal Election

HeadlineOct 19, 2015

Canadians are heading to the polls today to decide whether to extend the nearly decade-long rule of Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper. Polls show Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau, the son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, leading Harper, with the New Democratic Party in third. Trudeau has accused Harper of Islamophobia for seeking to ban Muslim women from covering their faces with the niqab, or veil, while taking their Canadian citizenship oath.

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