An Oil Spill Will…
…hurt your business base. Companies will relocate or close. Your tax base will disappear. Your communities will lose tourism and future businesses, as companies don’t want to locate there,” she…
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Another One Bites The Dust
Sun Media says they’re committed to the town of Ingersoll…so committed they’re going down the road to Woodstock, where their new HQ will be a decommissioned school bus. No, I’m…
Odds Of An Ontario Spring Election
…just went down a little bit: Wynne’s Liberals led with 24 per cent to 23 per cent for Hudak’s Tories, 20 per cent for Horwath’s New Democrats and 7 per…
Press Accountability In An Age Of Industry Decline And Despair
To me, the take-away from this J-source piece is that Canadian journalism can no longer afford accountability; thus the slow death of provincial press councils. As more journos are sacked,…
T.O. Weather, Circa 2040
Thanks to AGW. From here.
Enbridge Tries To Screw Kalamazoo
Two and a half years after the costliest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the company responsible for the disaster is balking at digging up oil that still remains in…
Quebecor Shutting More Papers
From the Toronto Sun Family blog: Rumors are spreading that the Niagara region has shut down some of the Shopping News Papers including St. Kits, NF and Welland. No rumour.…
Its All About Oil
This nice piece from The Oil Drum explains why all that talk about how unconventional gas and oil will save us is mostly hype. It has this nice graph: …and…
OLPLDR Convention Roundup
Archaic and undemocratic as these delegated convention things are (and may they be gone forever after last night), the Ontario Liberal Party Leadership Convention of January 2013 turned out to…
And Its…
Pupatello: 866Wynne: 1,000 and something. Settled. Let us now go hunt Torys together.
2nd Round Results
Kennedy: 285 (13.7%)Pupatello: 817 (39.4%)Sousa: 203 (9.8%)Takhar: 18 (0.9%)Wynne: 750 (36.2%) Takhar missed the 2nd round drop off but unofficially went to Pupatello, That’s why his number above is so…
A Picture While you Wait
Everyone is waiting for 2nd ballot results, but they have not arrived. So I thought I would post this instead. I’d forgotten that B. Farber took a pic of me…
OLPLDR First Ballot Results
Hoskins: 150 (7.2%)Kennedy: 281(13.5%)Pupatello: 599 (28.7%)Sousa: 222 (10.7%)Takhar 235 (11.3%)Wynne: 597 (28.6%) Wynne’s total is the surprise here, just a hair behind Sandra. 0.2% rather than the 2.0% predicted. Big…
Sandra Pupatello Pitch Speech
The inestimable Jeff Jedras (who is sitting next to me) said Sandra Pupatello sounds a bit like the gal from Fargo, and there is some truth to that in her…
Kathleen Wynne Pitch Speech
Kathleen Wynne’s presentation started ominously, with break dancing old people. Her bio basically cast her as…technocrat is too harsh a term…but someone who has spent time solving problems within “the…
Gerard Kennedy Pitch Speech
Gerard Kennedy is, beyond all else, a gorgeous specimen. His speech this morning was all about “doing politics differently”. It was, however, a pretty standard issue “doing politics differently” speech.…
Teachers’ Protest And OLPLDR Notes
Looks like they’ve manage to pull in a few 100 protesters. On another note, it looks like some delegates were caught behind that pileup on the 401 and I think…
A Quick Note On First Batch Of OLPLDR Protesters
Unfortunately, I’m having troubles emailing pictures from my new tablet (piece of crap just like old tablet, as it happens) to my netbook, but Jeff posted one. The race horse…
Off To OLP Convention Today
I think about eight bloggers were chosen to cover the event. Of the group, Pupatello supporter Lisa Kirbie will offer spirited partisanship; Imp (who I think leans Wynne) and Jim…
Tough Day For Team Wynne
A couple of flubs-ups from the Wynne campaign in the last 48 hours or so. Here a letter from her team identifying a supporter of hers as Muslim, who is…