You may be asking why I have a subject line boosting Jack Layton, especially when I’m a Conservative supporter. It’s easy – the better Jack Layton does in this election, the better it is for the Conservatives. You see, under our First-Past-The-Post election system, the candidate with the “plurality” of votes wins the seat. A…
Read moreLayton Promises to Destroy Alberta’s Economy
Well, maybe not in so many words, but Jack Layton DID promise yesterday that he would scrap a tax-incentive program for companies to mine the Alberta Oil Sands. While not the be-all and end-all of Alberta’s economy, the Oil Sands do represent a significant portion of this province’s economy. “We’re going to have a legacy…
Read more“This is Unfair” Dion Whines Again
“They are piling their lies upon their lies. They are unable to stop to lie. Canadians will never accept that, it’s not the way we should have an election.” Thus spake Stephane Dion on Day 2 of our current election campaign. Instead of going on an attack of his own based upon fact (the Harper…
Read moreThe Best Event of my Professional Career
In my current job, I have a lot of “windshield time.”. The term, “windshield time” is what salespeople refer to as time spent driving. It is considered unproductive time, as one is not spending time in front of customers doing one’s job — selling stuff. My windshield time varies from day to day, simply due…
Read moreAshamed to be Canadian
Radio talk-show host Charles Adler read this on his program the other day. While I cannot claim to be the author (because I’m not,) I felt it was well worth passing along. I have taken the liberty of correcting a few minor punctuation errors, but other than that, I have posted it verbatim. I echo…
Read moreThe Mynt
The Mynt Last night, for a friend’s birthday, we decided to go hit the Mynt for a night on the club scene. I have not been “clubbing” in years. Many many years. But I went anyway — for fun mainly, but partly out of curiousity as to what this place was like. I’d heard about…
Read moreStupid Game Shows
What the hell is it with TV networks nowadays? Not only do we have humiliate-the-hell-out-of-some-unsuspecting-poor-young-beautiful-ditzy-blond-say reality shows, but we have really really really stupid game shows now. For a while, I thought game shows were improving. The show, Greed, for example — at least that one had most of the elements of a good game…
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