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To the barricades!

We have nothing to lose but our dog collars!

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Who says God, in all Her beneficence and wisdom, doesn’t exist?

  

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Sigh.

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Apparently. 

But here it is anyway. 

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Not sure I’d use him to announce something this big. But it’s big.

  

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…and maybe even sooner than that, too. Wow. 

Forum – and, remember, it’s just Forum – says the Tories and Dippers are tied for first, and the Grits are decidedly in third, and dropping. The source notwithstanding, that sounds about right to me. 

From my recent attempt at a SWOT/predictions list, here, the weather calamity stuff (massive Western Canada forest fires) and the terror stuff (terror-related arrest just this week) are already happening. With more to come, I suspect. 

Barring some life-changing events, I increasingly think this thing will be about Harper versus Mulcair. That’s the way it feels, anyway. 

So what do you think, O Readers? What’s going to happen in the next 64 days?

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From ‘Pretty Girls’ on Miami by Against Me! Watch. 

  

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My friend of several decades, Bob, is recognized this morning in The New York Times, no less:

“The bid, mounted in 2009, was largely the work of Bob Richardson, a public relations executive and high-level Liberal Party strategist. Mr. Richardson was a driving force in an unsuccessful bid for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games…”

The story itself is needlessly bitchy, but it was at least nice to see Bob’s efforts on behalf of amateur sport – which go back two decades – being recognized. He’s not a politician or a political staffer or a millionaire with a private jet – he’s a regular private citizen, who brought the Pan Am Games to Toronto. Think about that.

Why aren’t all the Pan Am events sold out? It has nothing to do with the Games themselves, I think, and more to do with a Toronto-centric phenomenon I have written about before: the Maple Leafs Syndrome. To wit: “…the source of the Rob Ford problem isn’t, in fact, Rob Ford. It’s the people who put him in office. It’s Torontonians themselves, afflicted as they are by Maple Leafs Syndrome. In Toronto, you can put crap on the ice, year after year — you can put trailer park trash in charge of the city — and Torontonians will keep doing what they always do about things that are a joke, a farce, a source of bottomless shame. Which is, mostly, nothing.”

In the 18 years I have been temporarily resident here, I have observed that the good people in Toronto can’t get excited about anything, ever. In all my time here, I have not once see Torontonians get worked up anything. Hell, even when Toronto had unrest at the G20, they had to import the rioters from Vancouver and Montreal.

So, don’t blame my friend Rob, or the three levels of government, for the stuff the New York Times whinges about. Blame Torontonians.

If being listless, limp and languorous were Olympic events, they’d win all the medals.

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Dippers will be over the moon about this, naturally. And who can blame them? No less than Canada’s National Newspaper™, has declared that they will win! To the barricades. 

Um, except:

• John Turner

• Kim Campbell

• Michael Ignatieff

All of those good folks were ahead in the polls the Summer before a federal general election. Hell, in Kim’s case, she was the most popular Prime Minister in the history of polling at this point in July. 

Didn’t quite work out, did it?

Don’t start measuring for drapes in Langevin just yet, Team Orange. A lot can happen between now and E Day. And likely will. 

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