Lately, there has been a lot of jostling and talking about a federal election here in Canada. With a minority government an election is going to happen sooner rather than later. Personally, I’m not convinced there will be one this spring, but the exact timing of the pending election isn’t all that important: all parties […]
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Making Danger Illegal
13 December 2005 – 12:06 am
I heard on the news yesterday that Opposition MLA Leanne Rowat introduced a private members bill to amend the HTA to ban passengers riding on the exterior of a vehicle. Primarily, this is intended to make it illegal to ride in a pickup box. Over the years a number of people have been killed while […]
Bureaucratic Build Up At Pelican
28 November 2005 – 10:41 pm
It seems that along with the silt the bureaucratic nonsense is building up at Pelican Lake. The Province of Manitoba is being prevented from opening the artificial inlet to the lake by DFO because the inlet has been classified as protected habitat. The problem is that the purpose of the inlet is to manage the […]
Garth Turner Joins the Liberals
The news item of the day for Canadian political junkies is that former Conservative, more recently Independent, MP Garth Turner has joined the Liberals. I’ve read only a little bit of the online commentary and it mostly seems to be what I would expect. The current incarnation of Garth Turner, MP was a lightning rod […]