Today is Ash Wednesday. As such, and as in years previous, I’m swearing off the booze for the next forty days.
I’d also give up politics, too, but I think the federal stuff is going to be rather addictive for the next few weeks.
I am reliably informed that The Walrus is going to have an interesting analysis of the Liberal Party of Canada in a coming issue. Stay tuned!
@TheTorontoSun: Ontario graduation rates have jumped to 81% – that’s up from 68% in 2003 when McGuinty’s government took office: http://bit.ly/fkbF4N
Once the playground of the affluent and the super-rich, coastal Florida was one of the first places to be hit by the global recession. It’ll be one of the last places to exit it.
All around southwestern Florida, there are ugly scars — unmistakable signs people are still struggling. Foreclosure notices are everywhere, as are ads for bankruptcy sales — and bankruptcy help. Shuttered businesses can be seen wherever you look. And, along a sunny stretch of beach once favoured by Floridians piloting big yachts, someone has planted some hand-written signs. “Our house for sale,” it says. “EMERGENCY.”
Personally, I support Lilley and (like many people, most of them in the NDP), I think Mulcair is a jerk.
Read the Hill Times transcript and cast your own vote!
Do you ever get the feeling that we have elections to see if the polls were right?
I sure do. The American humorist Robert Orben said that, or something like that, many years ago. Surveying the current Canadian political landscape, you’d have to agree, too.
For a few years now, surveys of Canadians’ political opinions have been pretty darn consistent. Folks didn’t like the Conservatives enough to give them a majority — and they didn’t trust the Liberals enough to give them a minority.
The pollsters also told us, regularly, that Joe and Jane Frontporch didn’t love Prime Minister Stephen Harper very much — but they loved opposition leader Michael Ignatieff even less. Meanwhile, Joe and Jane liked NDP boss Jack Layton plenty, but not enough to ever let him near power.
And so it went over the past few years — see-sawing up and down, a few points here and few points there, but no one ever really breaking ahead of the pack.
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