Posted 1 month, 1 week ago at 09:12. 1 comment
I know, never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by mischievous, drunken teenagers, but I woke up this morning to find our Green Party lawn sign gone and an NDP sign in its place. I doubt we’ll be able to get another Green Party sign before the election on Tuesday, but I wasted no time taking down the offending sign.
UPDATE: We called the local Green Party office to get a replacement sign, and apparently this was not an isolated incident. Highly uncool.
UPDATE THE SECOND: We now have a new sign. Wow, maybe the Green Party *is* organized enough to actually run things!
Current Tunes: CBC Radio One Ottawa (streaming) | Filed under House, Politics
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago at 15:43. 1 comment
I tried to watch some of the Canadian leadership debate last week. For the most part, it played out just like the last one, with the roles of the incumbent and challenger reversed. I’m going to Toronto next week to work, so I’ve already voted this week in an advance poll, and apparently thrown away my vote if I’m to believe the people at Vote For Environment.
While I respect their sentiment, I’m a much bigger fan of actually fixing a broken system than just accepting it in perpetuity. There are those who are working to fix the system, chief among them Orphan Voters Canada (also available on Facebook, if you’re one of *those* people.) Sadly, I don’t think electoral reform will make it back onto the ticket in my lifetime after failing so badly last year in Ontario, and with both the economy and the environment in the toilet.
Regardless, go vote next week. It’s the closest thing you have to a voice.
Current Tunes: Above & Beyond - Trance Around The World 236 - Sasha - 2008-10-03 | Filed under Politics
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago at 20:48. 0 comments
All of my worst-case scenarios for traveling to France with an infant tomorrow center around airport security rather than any actual airline disaster or reptiles.
Current Tunes: Nothing | Filed under Politics, Travel
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago at 09:37. 0 comments
I suppose it doesn’t really matter what we’re talking about — in this case it happens to be net neutrality — but I’m pretty much always going to side with a ninja over Ted Stevens.
Courtesy of Presentation Zen.
Current Tunes: Blue Rodeo - Already Gone | Filed under Politics
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 08:56. 0 comments
Stephen Colbert goes for the President’s throat at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Watching this made my day yesterday.
Current Tunes: Steve Lawler - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix - 2005-07-17 | Filed under Politics
Posted 2 years, 10 months ago at 16:43. 1 comment
Deciding who to vote for in the upcoming federal election is hard. Several local candidates are at least making it easier for me to decide who not to vote for. So far I’ve received print material from both the Liberal and Conservative candidates for the Nepean-Carleton electoral district, despite living in the Ottawa West - Nepean district. The office of the Conservative candidate for Ottawa Centre has also called here repeatedly asking for our support…perhaps Ottawa geographical support, I’m not sure.
Candidates: how do you expect to be able to effectively represent your constituents if you don’t even know who or where they are?
Current Tunes: Blue Rodeo - Last To Know | Filed under Politics
