From what I’ve read, that’s accurate. I don’t like his personal positions on a number of topics, but he said he’s not going to go there, just like Harper.
It’s irrelavent in the short term as there’s no way the Liberals will lose the next election, and probably not the one after that.
(Sorry, I know I’m not Northern Piper!)
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I remember reading about him when he was picked as Speaker, but I had completely forgotten about him in the interim.
On an unrelated note, this past weekend was “Doors Open Toronto” where various buildings allow the public to visit them for free. My wife and I went to Black Creek Pioneer Village, the Gibson House museum (Mr. Gibson was involved in the Upper Canada Rebellion) and another historic house that is used as office space for the Ontario Historical Society. The pioneer village was the most interesting, but I’m not sure I’d pay the regular price of $15 per adult to visit it. On the up side, we bought a 2L bottle of old-timey porter that they brewed on site.
Canada ranked #1 in the world for quality of life and #2 overall (U.S. News in partnership with Y&R’s BAV and Wharton).
I didn’t see it coming, either.
It seems to me that often in elections, anything can happen.
You know how folks feel when someone at the front of the checkout line is fumbling about paying with a lot of coins?
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them might want to shoot the coin fumbler and just get on with their own purchase, particularly when they are trying to get home to start their weekend.
And you know that Canadian Tire sells guns and ammo.
Well, the drawer in which I toss stuff was full, and a lot of the stuff has Sandy McTire’s face smiling up at me, so off I go to Canadian Tire. Just to add insult to injury, I’ll also be using a few gift cards for the first time. I’m wearing a bright red golf shirt to camouflage myself as a Canadian Tire employee, but if you don’t hear from me in the next few days, you’ll know what happened.
Countdown is on! 27 days and I hit the road heading East.
Sherwood Park-Saskatoon-Winnipeg-Thunder Bay-Sault Ste Marie -Ottawa
Exciting!
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If you can fit it in, I highly recommend visiting the Mennonite Village near Steinbach, MB. It is a fascinating place, plus they have an actual Guttenberg Bible there!
We’ll have the welcome mat/beer laid on to welcome you!
Yes. We will need to have a long overdue Ottawa dope fest in July!
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Muffin? You still there…? 
Seriously, I recall when I was much younger, one of our friends saving up all kinds of Canadian Tire money. His objective was to get a pair of goalie pads for road hockey for free, or at least at no more cost than the sales tax. He succeeded in saving enough CT money; and on the day of the purchase, we went with him.
Well, CT made good on its promise of allowing any amount of CT money for a purchase, and sold him the pads for nothing but CT money. (I think the sales tax was paid in cash, though.) But the time it took for the poor clerk to count out all those CT bills measured in cents! I think some of the people in line were rethinking their decision to bypass the guns and ammo counter.
He survived, and used those pads for some years. Hope you survived too.
Courtesy of my red golf shirt, I had a brief chat with a woman who had misplaced her husband in plumbing, so I pointed her to that department, and I was approached by a woman who was looking for hubcaps, so I pointed her to the hubcaps, and a few minutes later pointed her to the hubcaps again. It was nice to learn that I was not the only person who wanders about lost in Canadian Tire. Had I been prescient, just for shits and giggles I would have pointed the former to the hubcaps and the latter to plumbing.
While the teller was counting (about five minutes), I shooed away people who tried to form a line, although one pair decided to wait (and grumped about it as if they had not been warned away).
The count was a few dollars off, but neither the clerk nor I, nor the two grumblers in line behind me, were interested in a re-count, so now I’m the proud new father of a couple of locking storage boxes for Willy (the replacement for Faithful Rocinante, who met an untimely end).
You know what? I might just vote NDP in the next Ontario election.
Just watching a very sane Andrea Horwath on TVO tonight. I’m CERTAINLY not voting Liberal.
ETA: I’ve never voted NDP before, and couldn’t even have imagined it…
The last Ontario NDP government didn’t get re-elected in large part because it went to war with the public service unions over Rae Days that were put in place to cut back on government expenditures.
Yes. I remember that… So?
Horwath seems sincere and capable. And the funny thing is, the older one gets the more conservative one is supposed to be. Maybe it’s what’s going on in the US, or maybe because of things in my personal life, but I’m feeling rather socialist these days.
No. I can’t explain it.
So folks who believe that the Ontario NDP are set on tax and spend are mistaken.
Mosaic Stadium - first Rider game - exhibition v. Winnipeg.
New stadium is great!
((Except for concession prices. Beer has gone up to $9 since the Bryan Adams concert. 
$9? Luxury!
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We are frugal Prairie folk, not used to Ontario sporting event prices.
