Prime Minister Moves to Grant Honourary Canadian Citizenship to Leader of Democracy Movement in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi Interesting move. I approve (since I’m sure Stephen Harper’s decision-making hinges on my approval…). Note the language, too: in news articles and press releases including this one, I’ve noticed an almost total switch from “Myanmar (alsocontinue reading
May the years stretch ever longer in a Better Canada
It’s amazing what Strong Leadership can do. For example, it can apparently extend the number of days in a year in a previously unheard-of fashion: “During the last session our crime bills were held up by Opposition-controlled House committees or the Liberal majority in the Senate for a total of 976 days,” Prime Minister Harpercontinue reading
Canada’s never-to-be majority government strikes again
Still not sure what the Harperites are calling themselves since they decided that, with a fresh session of parliament, it was time to drop the “new”. Given this photo, though, I’m confident my own personal name for them is correct. Here they all are, having a good laugh at Stephane Dion, his slightly less torturedcontinue reading
Oh dear
Headline in my RSS this morning: Canada’s New Government Increases it’s Commitment to Enhancing Girl’s Education in Afghanistan
The loneliness of 20,000 long distance runners
(Crowds line marathon route, somewhere else.) Though you may not have noticed, today was the day of Toronto’s second fall marathon, the Toronto Marathon. As one might expect, Yonge Street and University Avenue were lined with spectators, and residents of neighbourhoods the marathon went through, such as Forest Hill and Rosedale, were outside with handmadecontinue reading
Me! Me! It’s all about me!
Summary: Blowhard hack indirectly kills decent kid; hack wonders if he should feel conflicted about this, but settles for navel-gazing. Full story here. Hitchens seems to sense that the appropriate response involves a) some level of genuine humility, as opposed to a pose du jour that involves faking humility, and b) a true focus oncontinue reading
Bland still works
Election 2007: It seems like a lot of trouble to go to to have what is in effect a cabinet shuffle, doesn’t it? Some high, or low, lights: – The Tory campaign couldn’t change the channel, as we all know. One of the big problems, it seems, is that they didn’t have anything to changecontinue reading
Happy (derivative) Thanksgiving
As a first-generation American Canadian, nothing makes me prouder than seeing Canadians embrace an American holiday in their own unique way. (What specifically Canadian tweaks have been made to the holiday here, besides the October date, is still unclear to me. But I’m sure that there are some extremely important, if for all practical purposescontinue reading
Totally Toronto (2)
It’s an easy target, but: The Current on Friday morning had a long segment on roundabouts, hooked to Case Ootes’s proposal that Toronto should have some. There aren’t any at the moment. The main interview was with the City of Toronto’s transportation manager, who discussed them intelligently enough from theory – he’s not responsible forcontinue reading
Flight delays redux
Here’s Patrick Smith’s most recent take on all this. It seems very reasonable to me.