Why do I get like this each year in the last days of the calendar? Trust me, it’s not being in the dumps and while by the time January 1 arrives it always feels like just another day, it’s these last few I seem to cherish most.
The week between X-MAS and New Years is always [...]
Monthly Archive for December, 2006
Hey uncle Brian … is this better?
Posted in Politics on Dec 22nd, 2006
Speaking about Stephen Harper’s environment plan, former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had this to say on CBC Radio, “…And I think there is more work to be done on that, both substantively and ‘presentationally’, and my guess is that is where the government is heading…”
In making reference to the relationship between the environment and [...]
Stockwell Day trying to be funny; isn’t so funny
Posted in Climate Change on Dec 17th, 2006
From Stockwell Day’s blog on December 1st:
“Hey who knows, maybe Al Gore is right. Maybe all my constituents living high up on the West Bench, or Lakeview Heights, or the hills of Logan Lake will soon be sitting on lakeside property as one of the many benefits of global warming. All I know is [...]
The “watch what you say” shuffle; or not
Posted in Politics on Dec 15th, 2006
I have a lot of respect for women who enter politics and who succeed in breaking the mold of the old-boys club without constantly making the statement that’s what they are doing.
I don’t know Rona Ambrose. I’ve written about her only once before in Battered Minister Syndrome, which for some inexplicable reason I wanted [...]