(BBC) Canadian leaders gone wild in three-way debate battle

If there were any doubts that this has become a tight, hard-fought Canadian general election campaign, that went out the window very early during Thursday night’s leaders’ debate in Calgary.

It was a spirited, sometimes snippy affair that often seemed to spin out of control, as the back-and-forth between the three candidates – Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and left-of-centre challengers Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party and Thomas Mulcair of the New Democratic Party – descended into cacophony.

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