Fireworks! Foomp!
Canada’s never-to-be-majority government
This may end up being premature, but I’ll call it anyway: Harper will never lead a majority Conservative government in Canada. He’s lost all the seats in the Atlantic provinces, most if not all of the 12 Saskatchewan seats, isn’t gaining ground in Ontario, and $700 million can’t buy Quebec, according to today’s Decima poll:continue reading
Leadership matters. Coherence, not so much.
From a Ontario PC Youth Association giveaway at this weekend’s Ontario PC convention: This year provides us with an excellent opportunity, a chance to get rid of a Premier who has become disconnected with the people of Ontario and that with a man of great vision and integrity because we want a better Ontario, andcontinue reading
Driving Home a Point
Saturday’s Post had a somewhat incoherent article with the bombastic headline “Toronto’s War on Cars” over the weekend, featuring a 25-year-old risk management consultant who couldn’t be arsed to walk to the subway stop nearby. But they made up for it today with a great op/ed by News Talk 1010 drive home host John Moore.continue reading
Attachment parenting: stop the madness
You’re literally smothering your children to death: Of 30 infant deaths in 2006 and the first months of 2007, Cairns said that 20 were caused by “co-sleeping” with adults or other unsafe sleeping environments. Just last Friday, a review of 10 autopsy reports from the Hospital for Sick Children showed that eight were the resultcontinue reading
Day 12
It’s June 2nd — not even officially summer — and we’re just 5 days short of reaching the total number of smog advisory days there were in total in 2006. Not that it’s hard to tell the air is filthy these days — the fact that the CN Tower is a vague suggestion from anywherecontinue reading
On a lighter note
Something tells me the writer of this headline has recently acquired a dog. I’m not sure what to make of the main article. Part of me wants to say something along the lines of: Of course the whole organic thing has gone corporate, what did you expect?
Zero Yonge Street
I can’t get all that upset about the condos slotted for the Pier 27 site at the foot of Yonge St. (link, link, link), though perhaps that’s a sign that I’ve lowered my expectations to the point where anything in that area other than windswept parking lots, mothballed party boats, random examples of ‘70s Brutalismcontinue reading
Speed kills, but no one cares
I don’t think anyone would think of me as a law and order type, but I’m increasingly convinced that we have a dangerous lack of enforcement of existing traffic laws in the city, and a disregard for the destruction big metal vehicles cause. So I am appalled that the two teenagers who were racing theircontinue reading
A fizzy that’s good in the heat
We recently picked up a bottle of Allimant-Laugner Crémant d’Alsace Brut (Vintages 30593, $19.95), since we’re fond of cracking open a bottle of fizzy for random celebratory occasions such as Tuesdays, and we’ve long since run out of the Crémant d’Alsace we buy from Opimian. Very fresh, lots and lots and LOTS of green applecontinue reading