Posted by: wordbeeps on: April 5, 2010
Some news items become household conversation, then at work, fodder for water cooler grazing. These issues are bigger than themselves. They are elephants released from envelopes and cannot be stuffed back in. Helena (not just Helen) Geurgis, the former beauty pageant contestant and mall soap peddler sued her pageant way back when. Now she’s a [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: December 5, 2008
Michaëlle Jean, the immigrant Port-au-Prince born beauty and later tele-journalist who now holds Canada’s highest government office, has, as nature thankfully intended for her good looks and graces, no balls. In fact, to verify such recognition of her official potential pin-up status, early on as Governor-General she declared, “I am hot!” to an Ottawa MP-press [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: October 12, 2008
I can write about the candidates, but here’s the question- who am I going to vote for? First, in this election I don’t give a damn who the local candidate is. I haven’t attended a single discussion on the candidates, not a single forum, haven’t met them, haven’t gone to their campaign office to pick [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: October 8, 2008
Six days to go before voting day. As the stock market plunges- the TSX had its first positive day today after five days of negative numbers- so do the fortunes of Prime Minister Steven Harper. The Conservatives are seeing their once-strong lead in the polls slip. The news I caught in the last three days- [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: October 4, 2008
I missed both debates and I so wanted to write on them. Had to travel during Thursday evening. Not fun. So I have to rely on news links. I’ll pop those in later. It is now the very early morning and I’m writing this before I rush off. First, to comment on our debate then [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 7, 2008
Gosh, what a surprise. An election call. For Tuesday, October 14. Is it called foreshadowing, all those advertisments in the past two weeks composed of clip smatterings of bad actors pretending to be real people praising Harper on what seemed, for each, to be the umteenth take to get the fake sentimentality right, and saying [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 5, 2008
Election in Canada Governor-General Michaëlle Jean will meet with Prime Minister Steven Harper at 8:15 a.m. Sunday when Harper will tell her that he does not have confidence in parliament. The Canadian federal election is expected to take place October 14. Three Harper cabinet ministers will not run again, David Emerson (Foreign Affairs), Monte Solberg [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: August 28, 2008
The longest minority government in Canada’s history is about to end, with Prime Minister Steven Harper’s expected election call keeping Ottawa on the edge of its over-stuffed seat. Parliament is in summer recess, due to reconvene September 15. Four byelections are coming up soon, all in Ontario and Quebec, with three slated to take place [...]
