Untouched photo of the front of the Ontario PC pollution-spewing bus!  People of Kitchener, beware!

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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.

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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.”

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“In a stinging letter to Horwath, circulated to members of a green coalition, Environmental Defence executive director Rick Smith complained that her party had lost its way:

“Some of your existing policy positions are not in the best interest of environmental or human health protection,” Smith wrote last month.

“How can any party that claims to be concerned about global warming advocate de facto subsidies for buying oil and gas. This is absolutely the wrong direction.”

Significantly, Smith is a former chief of staff to the late federal NDP leader, Jack Layton, who made environmentalism a cornerstone of his campaigns in a way that Ontario New Democrats have not. The party’s former research director, Hugh Mackenzie, has also condemned its recent positions.”

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Awww!  Someone got a photo of Fratboy Tim’s shiny new gas-guzzler – and now his new event this morning is ruined!  Damn!

Personally, I love the “Change Tim Hudak” stuff at the front.  It neatly captures what many PCs have been saying after Tim blew his lead this Summer.

UPDATE: I’m hearing a lot of similar comments. What do you think?

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This is so wrong.

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Three of my kids, along with their Mom and two friends, have decided – like the Bushes – to ride out Irene in Kennebunkport.

They are on the water (but a bit away from it), and well-stocked with batteries, flashlights, candles, drinking water and food. The tubs are full of water for flushing toilets, and everything that could fly away has been brought inside. They seem ready and in good spirits. (I, meanwhile, had to leave at dawn yesterday to get my Mom home, eldest son to hockey camp, and me back to the Ontario campaign).

If any of you are at a keyboard today, and want to pass along Maine-related news links, we would be most grateful. I will send those along to our Team Irene by text, as we all expect power will be gone sometime today.

Many thanks and here’s hoping Maine, P.Q., New Brunswick and beyond are ready. We were evacuated due to Hurricane Bob in ’91, but that seems like nothing compared to Irene’s power.

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After more than forty years of tyrannical rule by Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is at the cusp of freedom and a hopeful new era.

But, as Gadhafi’s regime collapses, spare a thought for Christoph Halens, a Canadian reporter who went to Libya in 1987 — and never came back. Spare a thought for Halens, who was murdered by the Gadhafi regime in April 1987.

For simply doing his job.

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…but I’m not holding my breath. Hope I’m wrong, etc.

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Heading West on I-90. Dozens of power line trucks and National Guard humvees heading the other way.

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