Let’s summarize, shall we?
This thing is over, folks. Trump is the nominee.
So, if you’re like me, you’re going to do all you humanly can to get Hillary Clinton elected president.
Rockin’ the Malcom X shirt, baby, while waiting for the idiots in SFH to finally arrive.
X has great significance to me, but you’ll never guess why.
Justin Trudeau, showing considerable wisdom and restraint. I am impressed.
And what the judge said: the complainant “breached her oath.” Wow. Is the Crown now compelled to explore whether perjury occurred? Extraordinary.
My view has always been the same: he’ll be acquitted. He may be reptilian, but the three complainants were an unmitigated disaster in Court, and the Crown was almost as bad.
What do you think?
I am very sad to hear of Leon’s passing. I have known him since we were both students at Carleton – more than 30 years. I worked with him when he was a journalist at ‘OH, and also on campaigns for Dalton McGuinty. He was always the most cheerful and optimistic guy in the room.
My deepest condolences to his family. He was a shining light in a business that is often too dark.
Brussels was a horror, Rob Ford was very sad, Hillary lost Utah and Idaho, Justin Trudeau didn’t get credit for making the biggest contribution to the welfare of First Nations in generations. Yesterday was therefore an unhappy day.
Until the end of it, that is. Late – too late – the results started to come in, in an important Calgary provincial by-election. The Calgary-Greenway contest saw the once-mighty PCs returned, but not by much. Wildrose came second, but not by much. And, nipping at all their heels, was the Alberta Liberal Party.
Whose candidate, Karbani Khalil, beat out the Alberta NDP. You know, the government.
I know I shouldn’t read too much into a by-election result, I know, I know. But the Alberta Grits were the first political party I belonged to, and the one to which I will always be loyal.
The PC win will effectively put the brakes on the unite-the-right efforts currently underway in Alberta. The results also mean the Alberta NDP is a one-term aberration – because it is. And all of that creates opportunity for my party.
I will be in Calgary next month for a series of meetings and seminars with my Alberta Liberal friends. When I have more details, I will share same here for those who wish to attend. In the meantime, forgive me for the lengthy post.
Yesterday was a crummy day, for lots of reasons. But it ended not badly, if you are an Alberta Liberal like me!
Just when you thought this piece of garbage couldn’t sink any lower, he does.
I didn’t ever support the man, of course. I was critical of his politics, too. But, one day – out of the blue – he and his brother Doug were very kind to me at a very bad time. You don’t ever forget stuff like that.
Deepest condolences to the Ford family, something which I’m sure all commenters on this web site share.
BREAKING: Family says former Toronto mayor Rob Ford has died at 46 after fighting cancer.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 22, 2016
Allow me the alliteration: it feels like all that there is to smile about, as we start March 22, 2016.
So, I listened to CBC Radio, as I do every morning, and I found myself wondering about the choices they had made. The mass murder in Brussels – with 30+ dead, and about a 100 gravely hurt) topped the newscast, but today’s federal budget was close behind. Then there was an analyst predicting that Bombardier would get its $1 billion, even though it is still “outsourcing” Canadian jobs to places like Mexico. And then, of course, there were stories that bypass all of that: basketball, traffic, the weather.
It’s not like this sort of dilemma doesn’t happen every day, of course. I will always recall listening to CBC Radio on the morning of 9/11, and how the discussion was with Chuck Strahl, talking about something in Ottawa – just as the world was ending for some 3,000 people in New York City.
Choices are hard, I guess. So what would you do, if you were today running a news outlet somewhere? What would you lead with?
So, a poll. Vote now, vote often, etc. What would you do?
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