With our combat role allegedly ending in Afghanistan – and with Rise Against’s show at Edgefest, which we saw with 16,000 others on Saturday – I figured it was timely to again post my kids’ still-favourite song, Hero of War. Worth watching and heeding.

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But voter suppression, sadly, isn’t just found in the Third World. Sometimes, we get to experience it right at home.

So, on Super Bowl Sunday in 2007, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives launched an expensive ad campaign carefully designed to depict the then-Liberal leader as a weakling who couldn’t speak English. “Stephane Dion is not a leader,” the Super Bowl ad proclaimed.

The spot featured a clip of Dion and his leadership opponent, Michael Ignatieff, verbally sparring at a debate. Ignatieff tells Dion the previous Liberal government “didn’t get the job done” on the environment.

Dion, outraged, sputters: “This is unfair. Do you think it’s easy to set priorities?” Nowhere in the ad does Harper’s campaign team declare they were hoping to persuade one million Liberal voters to stay home.

But that in fact was their objective and they achieved it. Extensive focus group and polling research had told the Tories that while many Grits despised Harper, they also had serious misgivings about Dion’s “image” as a leader and his ability to communicate.

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Great journalism is great storytelling.

This is great storytelling.

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I can’t remember the last time I read something like this by a Canadian journalist.

That’s because I haven’t.

(The truth, as they say, fears no questions.)

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Oliver’s might be better known for inexpensive draft, air hockey and its Thursday-night DJ party, but Brousseau isn’t the first politico to put in time there. Gordon Brown, BAHons/83, is the Conservative MP for Leeds-Grenville. He never worked the bar, but he did share more than a few pints with his buddies Warren Kinsella, BJ/84; Jim Watson, BA/83; Bob Richardson, BAHons/85; and James Villeneuve, BA/85.

For the record, Gordie, Jim, James, Bob and I never drank at Oliver’s.  We in fact never drank.  All we did was study, and devote ourselves to charitable efforts.

 

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It’s in their platform.  And I can tell you – I promise – this PC policy will end up doing them more damage that the funding of private religious schools.  It’s their policy Vietnam.

Check this out:

A 34-year-old Croswell man eluded police Thursday afternoon after escaping from an inmate work detail at St. Clair County Sheriff Animal Control…

A tracking dog from the Port Huron Police Department was called to the scene but was unable to locate Miller.

This isn’t the first time an inmate has escaped from a work detail at animal control…

In 2007, Robert Rawza ran from the shelter and was on the lam for about a week. He was sentenced to serve 18 months to six years in prison on a charge of escaping jail. He had been in jail for violating parole by not registering as a sex offender. As a sex offender, officials said he shouldn’t have been in a work detail, which are for nonviolent criminals.

Donnellon said there always is a risk in using inmates for free labor for the different county entities and municipalities.

This, I suspect, is just the start:

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“Look, I’m a woman. I know you don’t give it all up at once.”

Anyone think that’s funny?  Here’s what I do know: if a man had made that comment, his political career would be over.  Full stop.

What’s your view?

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In plenty of pain (it’s a long story), we made our way to the ‘Shoe tonight, whereupon I – after twenty-plus long years – was finally able to see Urge Overkill.  Why weren’t they stars?  What happened to Blackie? Is Cam Carpenter known to every band in the universe?

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We’re totally going to win this election!

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