Two regular team practices, one practice with the team he’s been called-up to practice with and tryout for, two regular season games, an afternoon at the local shooting pad, and a zillion hours of roller-hockey last week; the MSN exchange from the relative buffered safety of his room – read as disaster zone – this [...]
Monthly Archive for January, 2007
Canadians want May in debates; well 80% anyway
Posted in Politics, Public Opinion on Jan 22nd, 2007
I’ve lost count of how many times in the past couple of months I have been asked for my opinion on what I think, personally, the criteria ought to be for a spot at the debate podium. It’s a fair question, for sure, but not a question I have the right to dictate the answer [...]
Harper-Baird ‘wakeup call’; reaching for the snooze-button
Posted in Climate Change on Jan 11th, 2007
I confess, I’m somewhat of a Type A personality meaning, among other things, my clocks are perfectly synchronized to internet time so after one pounce of the snooze button and exactly 9 minutes later, I can wake-up all over again just-in-time to hear the 680 News top-of-the-hour beep-tone reminding me it’s still only – but [...]
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands
Posted in Politics on Jan 4th, 2007
So there we have it, pussy-cat for pit-bull, as if that was the problem, much less the solution.
Now we can have Stephen Harper’s views on climate change yelled at us, given previous efforts to put it in a pretty package failed.
I can just imagine what the cabinet shuffle briefing was like “here, your turn, [...]