Hope everyone had a great long weekend. Apologies to (ir)regular readers for another content lapse. I’ve been tweeting more than blogging of late. Follow @mark_watton for more.
In the meantime, a few links:
1. Tune into the CBC Corner Brook’s West Coast Morning show to catch yours truly sometime between 7:30 and 8:00am. If there’s a podcast version I’ll link to it later.
2. Political junkies across the Atlantic provinces should have some new polling data to chew on from CRA tomorrow. The Guardian should have latest numbers for Prince Edward Island in today’s online edition, and CBC’s David Cochrane tweeted a little while ago that CBC NL would have same for Newfoundland & Labrador on air today at noon. Voters in both provinces go to the polls in the next few weeks. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia quarterly numbers are usually released simultaneously, or within days.
3. This essay, by a recently departed Republican staffer is a must read for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is a chilling reminder of what happens to politics when sensible people stay home. In an odd sort of way it’s one of the most motivational things I’ve read in months.
4. This Peter Jackson column, already nearly a week old, seems to have struck a nerve. If you missed it, read it. If you didn’t miss it, read it again.
5. In the “what else is new” category… Ottawa U trounced Guelph in their first football game of the Canadian University season. And best of all, the NFL season starts in two days…
