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with Mia Rabson

  • The $10 million question

    It will be interesting to see what happens now that the House of Commons voted in favour of the motion to get rid of 10 percenters.

  • Political posturing

    Former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer – husband to current Status of Women Minister Helena Guergis – was fined $500 today for the incident stemming from last fall when he was clocked driving 93 km/h in a 50 km/h zone outside Toronto.

  • Updated: Still looking for signs of efficiency

    Treasury Board President Stockwell Day this morning announced 265 government-in-council positions are being eliminated to save money and “operate with maximum efficiency.”

  • Poll results may vary

    I always scoff a little bit when I hear a politician dismiss poll results by saying the only one that counts is the poll on election day.

  • Bad behaviour unbecoming

    I have to admit when I hear one party demand the resignation of a member of another party I usually tune it out.

  • Bears vs. Beer

    I just received a call from a radio station in Saskatchewan wanting to talk about why their Olympic pavilion rocks and Manitoba’s is so lame.

  • Bruinooge apologizes

    Manitoba Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge apologized to NDP MP Pat Martin for saying Martin had no business introducing a private members’ bill to exonerate Louis Riel when Métis leaders themselves didn’t agree on whether Riel should be exonerated.

  • Pavilion PR

    A couple of weeks before the Olympics began I heard through the Ottawa grapevine that the Manitoba pavilion in Vancouver was the laughing stock of the federal Department of Culture. Apparently some federal Culture bureaucrats thought it was the worst of the pavilions, and was so far from being completed the running joke was Manitoba was going to be demonstrating how to build a pavilion during the Olympics. I was assured by the province things were on track, and they were right. The building opened as scheduled when the Olympics began. It also won a sustainability award from VANOC.

  • Sportsmanship not lost

    Apparently nothing brings out whiners and weenies like an Olympics. I expect Australia’s Dale Begg-Smith’s name to become synonymous with both at least as far as his former country of Canada is concerned.

  • Mortgage trends

    Finance Minister Jim Flaherty this morning announced some stricter rules for Canadians to get mortgages.

  • Four years later, $7,200 to go

    I got an email last week from a friend of Ken Waddell.

  • Dog gone it

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    Hildy the Chihuahua is the alpha dog on a Facebook group Canadian Chihuahuas Against Proroguing. (FACEBOOK)

    This dog is apparently unhappy with Stephen Harper.

  • Democracy on notice

    There are a lot of people weighing in today about what it means in the United States that the Democrats lost the Senate race in Massachusetts yesterday.

  • Water

    I will acknowledge I do not live in Winnipeg and therefore was not subjected to whatever power outage-caused water supply problems apparently thousands of city residents had to endure as they got ready for work Monday.

    I probably would have used a few colourful words if I’d been caught in the shower with shampoo in my hair and the water suddenly shut off.
     
    But that said, to me, this whole incident is a reminder that most of us in Canada forget far too easily how privileged we are.
     
    Ask the people in Garden Hill or Lac Brochet or Shamattawa how they survive, not just a few minutes one morning, but every single day, without running water in their homes.
     
    Not to mention the millions of people worldwide for whom finding clean water to drink is a daily struggle, let alone water for a shower.
     
    We take far too much for granted in this country and never stop to appreciate that sometimes. Even with the best of intentions, things break down. Water systems. Power grids. Streets.
     
    When something like a water pressure issue can be fixed before some people ever had a chance to notice there was a problem, if you complain at all, you complain too much.
  • Stop the photo op already

    The disaster in Haiti is just heartbreaking.

  • Pontificating on the prorogue

    The politicians may not be back in Ottawa at the moment but the Parliamentary pundits are certainly having a field day with the proroguing.

  • Holiday greetings

    It's that time of year when mailboxes everywhere are a little more crowded than usual.

  • Taxing matters

    The HST debate in Manitoba has subsided for the moment with Premier Greg Selinger (sorry – still not used to that one) and Finance Minister Rosann Wowchuk (nope, not used to that one yet either) ruling it out. Well at least for now.

  • No logo

    Policy Frog (www.policyfrog.wordpress.com) had a decent point to make about the whole Shelly Glover/water bottle issue and why it became more than a one-day story.

  • A story to remember

    Every year on Remembrance Day we pause to think and remember.

  • Paging Dr. Google

    The Canadian Institute for Health Information today released a new report looking at the changes in Canada’s health care system over the last decade.

  • Look ma, no hands

    Ontario went hands-free today.

  • Transition time

    It’s always a little odd to watch someone move on in life.

  • Just whose money is it anyway?

    Is the Conservative Party of Canada now funding our stimulus package?
  • Just whose money is it anyway?

    Is the Conservative Party of Canada now funding our stimulus package?

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