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Haha!
My friend Andy has put together a new blog, Interlogue (http://interlogue.wordpress.com) which is well worth a read. Although a lot of it relates specifically to Australia, the latest post on it is a hoot. To summarise, he completely demolishes his city's Sunday paper. With News ( Read more... ) -
Totally disgusted with Harper.
This article in the Toronto Star demonstrates in every possible way why our completely unstatesmanlike Prime Minister should consider early retirement.
Two quotes:
"Not only did Prime Minister Stephen Harper go out of his way to avoid the 16th International AIDS Conference, the largest gathering of its kind in history, his government cancelled a ( Read more... ) -
News coverage (or Daniel's Guide to the DW News Bulletin)
Story 1: The plot. News from the UK ( Read more... ) -
Betrayal.
An afterthought on the Canadian election. The member who I worked against, Liberal David Emerson in Vancouver-Kingsway, won on a slightly increased margin reflecting the overall swing to left-leaning parties in the 2006 election in BC. In Emerson's case, this was somewhat at the expense of the NDP ( Read more... ) -
To my non-Canadian readers
Just a quickie... I hear pretty much all your media is triumphing the "rise to power" of Stephen Harper. I'd like to present a counterpoint.
Nothing has changed since my last entry - he is 30 seats short of government. To get anything through, he needs the support of one of:
- an English Canadian left-wing party with a federalist Quebec independent ( Read more... )
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Sometimes I'm reminded why BC is so cool.
From today's Globe and Mail:
"VANCOUVER - British Columbia was its usual contrary, electoral self last night, turfing Conservatives, increasing the number of Liberals and doubling NDP representation in the province ( Read more... ) -
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http://enr.elections.ca/
*nervously waits*
Polls in BC close in 17 minutes. At least I can feel that I did my bit. I met some wonderful people today and on Saturday, and my faith that Canadians will choose the right alternatives, while shaky, is not gone.
Current state of affairs:
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Placeholder: Are the working class deserting the NDP?
I tried to place this as a reply to a blog entry but they are having technical problems so I've whacked it in here. With a view that most of my readers are in fact not Canadian and this article is about a much broader issue, I've taken many of the specific references out ( Read more... ) -
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I thought I'd try and lighten up my journal with a funny story.
Shortly before Christmas, my friend Cass decided to write her friend in Leduc, Alberta. Except it seems she had a slip of the brain and wrote Leduc, ALBANIA on the envelope, and didn't include a postal code either.
Never to be outdone, Canada Post managed to get it to the town of ( Read more... ) -
More Canadian politics.
I've made a decision to ignore all polls between now and the election. The ones available right now just depress me. I don't want to see the Conservative Party of Canada and Bloc Québecois sacrifice or sell off everything that makes my country the great country it is. The thought of Bloc Québecois - yes, you heard right, a SEPARATIST party - ( Read more... )