The election

I’m voting Green this time. Here’s how I feel about it:

1. I vote for the party, not the candidate. I’m not interested in the personality of the candidate.

2. The mainstream parties have had their chance. I want new ideas, fresh thinking, real engagement.

3. The NDP is now an old-line party. I don’t see fresh thinking there.

That leaves the Greens. Let’s give them a chance, try to get a couple of them elected, get them into the debates, hear their voice. It’s about time.

I’ll be voting for Greg Laxton of the Green Party. You should too :)

MMP

Mixed Member Proportional. Yes, of course. It will benefit the smaller parties, and that will be good for democracy. Here’s some info about it.

Hockey

Sens all the way!

Hallowe’en

Facebook Scrabble

I’m through with complaining about how slowly people play. Now I think it’s up to each player to start as many games as they need in order to maintain the pace that they like. I find that if I play 35-45 games at once, it will quite often be my turn in one of them.

Stéphane Dion

I told you so.

Fires

None this week. An order has been issued to tear down the abandoned houses on my street within 30 days. That will be a big change, and I don’t really welcome it; but it’s too late to save the houses. We can’t keep having fires.

It’s shocking when a blogger gets blogged. Thanks for the photo Sarah Naegels.

A real gone cat

The ship of state has sailed

All for now, over and out.