A lot of my Canadian friends are posting about how upset they are about the Conservatives winning a majority last night, particularly since they only took 40% of the popular vote. I'm right there with you! I was hoping for a Con minority and strong NDP because I want to see electoral reform get a serious discussion. Well, I got 50% of what I ( Read more... )

I'm totally eating up the daily updates from ThreeHundredEight. (Thanks again, lightcastle!) This is a blog modelled on FiveThirtyEight -- it takes all the national, local, and riding polls and feeds them into a weighted statistical model to predict who will win what ( Read more... )

rezendi points out that one of my tweets about the English-language debate got quoted in a Canadian Press story that got picked up by the Toronto Star and Yahoo Canada, and probably others. Whee! See if you can guess which quote is mine. ;-)

Someone commented on my "lay it on me" post asking for an update on tinctoris. There's not much to say, really: we're still madly in love and pining for each other pretty much any time we're not together. The schmoopfest continues unabated ( Read more... )

From rezendi, a great story about an American-Zambian partnership to build bike frames out of bamboo.

From boymaenad, results from meticulous testing of LA-area vegan restaurant food for non-vegan ingredients or contaminants. Results: most fake meat used in those vegan restaurants is imported from Taiwan and probably has undisclosed egg-based ingredients. One ( Read more... )

A couple of links for my fellow Canuckistanis in the US (or Canuckiphiles, I suppose).

From boulderbird, Canadian Favourites, where you can order cases and cases of yummy Canuckistani food. I've done it, and it's great.

From Connect2Canada, a place to register or look up Canada Day parties in the US. There's one in the Davish -- anyone want to go to a ( Read more... )

A passel of shots taken with my phone over the last few days...

( Canada -- where if you're old enough to get pregnant, you're old enough to decide if you want to be )

Canada-EU free-trade agreement could be signed within a year. The most exciting part about this agreement, for me, is that it includes EU-style free labour mobility ( Read more... )

A quick question for the Canadians -- is Allegra over-the-counter in Canada?

New York Times' piece on new Liberal party leader Ignatieff. It appeared in the fashion & style section (!?!) and was titled Running on Book Sense and Charm.

The Globe & Mail piece on the NYT piece. It's being featured on the home page and is titled Ignatieff subject of fawning Times profileSo: Canada gets some attention in the US, but in a "oh, ( Read more... )