Canada Votes – Election Party Edition

The official Canadian Election Night Party is green for go.
The exictment will be palitable.  Which way will London – Fanshawe go?  Will the Greens elect their first seat?  Will the Bloc pull through?  How badly will the Liberals do?  When will Jack Layton realize that there is no hope that he will be Prime Minister?  [...]

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Canada Votes – Advance Polls Open

If you would like to get the horribleness over with the Advance Polls are now open.  You window of opportunity is Friday, Saturday and Monday (noon to 8pm).
May the pain be light for you or at least a quick end.
PAulm

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Canada Votes – Pseudo English Edition

So I sat down to watch the English debate today with someone else (identity not revealed to protect the innocent).  Everything was fine until Stephane Dion started to speak…then she turned on the captions…a very telling omen.
Canada’s two official languages policy sometimes creates interesting pseudo languages amongst politicians.  The most memorable in recent history was [...]

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Canada Votes – End of the World Edition continued

The French and English debates are done.  They were kind of interesting but not in either the flaming-train-wreck way or the winking-whilst-field-dressing-a-moose way.  None of the leaders made large errors or gained major ground.
Perhaps next time we should arm them and put them in a large octagon.  Or, if that is too death filled, make [...]

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National Do Not Annoy List

On Tuesday Canadians could sign up for the new Go Away List.  Apparently there was so much interest in this that the server hosting the online sign up service was overwhelmed, which is a good sign.
The new Natinoal No I Don’t Want Any List is not perfect.  Mainly it has five execptions.

Political Parties
Newspapers
Polling Peoples
Charities
Businesses that [...]

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