Timmy Hudak: caught lying, again, about power
At the podium, he paints a picture of Ontario families huddling in the early-morning chill of winter so that sleepy-eyed children can get a hot shower before dawn – all to avoid getting soaked by punitive hydro rates.
“Instead of savings on their hydro bill, families are seeing long lines at the bathroom as budget-conscious families struggle to get everybody showered before 7 a.m. when the prices go up,” he told a recent party fundraising dinner.
That Dickensian image was hard to fathom for the donors who paid up to $1,500 a plate to hear Hudak speak last month. And it’s a stretch for the vast majority of Ontarians with gas-fired – not electric – hot-water heaters.”
In today’s Sun: When some haters are more equal than others
The Harper Government© sure didn’t take long to show us all what they’d do with a majority, eh?
This week, they let a Muslim-hating white supremacist into Canada. For good measure, they gave the creep a platform at the taxpayer-funded National Arts Centre.
Oh, and the creep and his entourage confiscated the notes of Sun Media reporter Jenny Yuen, too. Then one of his thugs called Jenny up late at night, and delivered a dark warning about reporting things that had not been “approved” in advance.
Up at the lake: fed/prov, politics, big theories,etc.
My Mom and youngest son and me are up at the lake. It’s rainy, so I read Ms. Hebert.
I don’t understand her column, basically. Rob Ford won, for example, because John Tory didn’t run. That’s it. If John had won, what would be left of her theory?
Sometimes it’s that simple: it’s personality-driven. It isn’t about big themes and stuff.
Dalton McGuinty is going to win – I’m quietly confident about that, too. He’s a regular family guy; his main opponent is a smirking, fibbing frat boy. If you got stuck in the snow one morning, you can picture McGuinty coming over with a shovel to help out. The other guy? He’s the guy the neighbours don’t like. He’d drive by in his Hummer, listening to Nickelback.
People mainly vote for the person who they think most understands their lives. That’s it.
Back to clean-up. Have a good one.
Timmy Hudaks PCs: totally full of crap on energy (and everything)
In the latest pre-election volley, the Liberal government issued a press release Friday stating that MPP Frank Klees sits on the board of directors of an energy company that has filed an application for a FIT (feed in tariff) contract with respect to the Mar Wind Project, a huge wind turbine project on the Bruce Peninsula.
Hudak announced earlier this week that he would scrap the controversial $7-billion Samsung wind and solar energy deal signed by the Liberals and would only honour those contracts already signed with smaller producers to supply green energy to the Ontario electricity grid.
Klees sits on the board of Tribute Resources and holds stock options in the company based on information supplied in the MPP’s 2010 public disclosure statements.”
SCC access decision
The Supremes made the right decision. If they had gone the other way, it would have had some pretty serious cost and security consequences.
Parliament has created multiple safeguards to provide for reasonable access to the doings of government. But access needs to be weighed against efficiency, too. As Justice LeBel wrote:
From a CBC story that skims over the decision:
Face to Face: I won’t lie down
We went to see Face to Face at the Phoenix after last night’s SFH show – and, my God, it was incredible. The place was packed (overpacked, in fact). Must have been well over a thousand punks in a space that could barely accomodate that. And they were just amazing – and the Toronto crowd was just crazy. “You guys are animals,” said Trever Keith, as dozens of punks stage dived (and more).
It was one of the best shows we’ve seen in ages. Looked a lot like this vid, but crazier.