Well, Canada, you didn't exactly vote for change, but at least you didn't vote for the status quo. Many of my non-Canadian friends have congratulated me on having a Disney prince as a Prime Minister, which I think is hilarious. I have my hopes set to "cautious optimism," since the Liberals are basically a centre-right party who are slightly to the ( Read more... )

So the Conservatives are still in power at the federal level. The conservative-pretending-to-be-a-liberal just won a solid majority at the provincial level. Bob Rae has stepped down from the leadership race for the federal Liberals, leaving the conservative-pretenting-to-be-a-liberal Ignatieff to take the leadership ( Read more... )

Well, wasn't that fascinating. Six weeks of hoopla, for a result that was so close to the last one that we may as well not have had an election.

Yeah, that was worth $300 million.

My recycling box is gone. Woe! Another thing I have to put on my to-do list. Poor recycling box, sacrificed to the gods of snow removal. It figures that something like this would happen just as I'm trying to be more environmentally responsible ( Read more... )