Tim Hudk iz a grate spelur

How Does Tim Hudak spell “amateur”?

While test scores for Ontario students continue to rise, it’s clear there are some who are still having some trouble learning to spell.

Like Tim Hudak and his team who learned at the knee of Mike Harris.

They misspelled Dalton.

They misspelled bureaucracy.

They even misspelled education!

When they can’t spell education, bureaucracy, and the name of their main opponent, it’s time to hold them back for four years, no?

 


In other news

Tim Hudak held an event at a K-W bingo hall to kick off his Ontario PC election campaign. He barred all but supporters from the place, and media.

CHCH-TV came.

What did they ultimately broadcast? You got it. Vladimir Putin, riding on a motorcycle to kick off the Russian election campaign. No Tim.


Tim Hudak supporter is heard from

So, we get letters.  Here’s one, from a nice fellow:

So, who is this Hudak/Harper fan, said I. So I Google him.

“I wish we could have a day where you could go around with a whip and whip lefties that will make em think before opening their mouths.” Nice.

Tim Hudak gets all the best supporters.


Sorry about that

Just as an election campaign is about to get underway, this wee web site gets taken down by a DOS attack for a few hours. Must be a huge coincidence, even if it does happen in every election, these days.

In other news, Tim Hudak is 15 years old.


Quote: “County council cringes at Hudak claim”

That’s a quote – in a headline, no less.  And it’s from a smaller-town Ontario paper, in a region the PCs insist they “own.”

Interesting.

“A Conservative government in Ontario could mean additional costs for municipalities, a Hastings County official says.

A statement made by Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak during the annual AMO (Association of Municipalities of Ontario) conference last week prompted county councillors to ask for a report on how its finances would be impacted if the province’s ongoing services upload was to stop.”

 


In today’s Sun: it’s a disaster

If something like Hurricane Irene had hit Toronto, or Montreal, or Calgary or Vancouver, would we have been ready?

I know, I know. Toronto, Montreal and Calgary are sufficiently inland that any hurricane would have a difficult time causing the damage Irene did in places like New York City. I know.

But, as I and countless other Canadians drove out of various U.S.-based vacation spots this past weekend ? hurrying to avoid Irene?s promised destruction ? it was hard not to be impressed by the Americans? preparations for what could have been the biggest hurricane.


What Harper fears most

Hebert:

“But Harper’s biggest asset is not the void created by Layton’s passing.

The top ace up his prime ministerial sleeve was always a divided opposition. That is as true today as it was before the untimely death of his NDP rival.

Jean Chrétien held the same card for the duration of his three majority mandates.

Going forward though, the unravelling of the sovereignty movement makes a divided opposition less of a certainty.

With the Bloc out of the federal mix, the possible payoff for uniting the country’s progressive forces under a single federalist banner has become bigger…

If the Layton-related political testimonies of the past week have demonstrated anything, it is that where there are five federal parties, there are really only two political tribes in the larger ideological sense of the word.

In the recent past, many in the Liberal and NDP establishments have been wilfully blind to that reality.

Former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was one of those. But on his Facebook page on the day of Layton’s funeral, he wrote about his party and the NDP: “The words we care about — generosity, justice, hope — they care about them, too. We don’t own these words and they don’t own them either. These values are bigger than all of us, bigger than our divisions and our arguments. It was good to put the past behind us for an afternoon and imagine what the future of our country might look like if we put those values first.”