
Wandering further afield – Pre-Election thoughts
It is a day to go until election day and I’d thought I’d share a few thoughts about this 2025 Federal Election. This election has been interesting and not what I expected three months ago. […]
It is a day to go until election day and I’d thought I’d share a few thoughts about this 2025 Federal Election. This election has been interesting and not what I expected three months ago. […]
The 2025 Federal Election is nearly here, and it has been an interesting campaign to watch on a national and local level. A 36-day campaign period is short by most election standards in Canada, but […]
Highway 138 is a death trap. The road, which connects the City of Cornwall to Highway 417 north of Moose Creek, is a 35 kilometre corridor of carnage. Late last month, another person died driving […]
Political campaigns are wonderful things. All the party leaders are trying to get you to vote for them. Big campaign rallies bring the party faithful together while glorious leaders wearing various jackets speak about hope […]
It is election season – again. This is our second election campaign in less than three months, and while we escaped this particular scourge in February, we’re not so lucky with this campaign. The scourge […]
Opinion polls are fascinating things to read about. Take a random group of people, ask them some questions, then maths people do some work and extrapolate this tiny sample of people to project a result […]
We are facing an extraordinary wake-up call as Canada enters a federal election period, with a very clear fork in the road for Canadians to decide. The hostile actions by U.S. President Donald Trump towards […]
Watching the spectacle emanating from the U.S. White House with equal parts of awe, wonderment, and horror, it is astonishing to see 75 years of progress in trade, international relations, and trust get flushed down […]
Well that was fun. The snap Ontario election has come and gone and Premier Doug Ford has a new four year-plus year mandate and one extra seat. All that for the tidy sum of $189 […]
The long-awaited announcement for high speed rail in Canada has come and gone, and you’ll be waiting at least a decade before any appreciable work will be seen. In fact, if all things go according […]
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