News Story Of The Year: Conservative Majority Majority Wins By Narrowest Of Margins
OTTAWA - Results of the annual survey of editors and broadcasters conducted by The Canadian Press to determine Canada's top news story of the year for 2011:
The Conservative majority: 25 per cent
Layton's legacy: 24 per cent
Vancouver riots: 12 per cent
Wildfires in Slave Lake: 11 per cent
Occupy movement: eight per cent
Mission in Afghanistan: three per cent
Corruption scandal in Quebec: three per cent
Head shots in hockey: two per cent
Prince William and Kate in Canada: two per cent
The struggles of separatism: two per cent
Keystone XL controversy: two per cent
Research in Motion: one per cent
The NHL returns to Winnipeg: one per cent
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First Posted: 12/26/11 04:36 AM ET Updated: 12/26/11 01:00 PM ET