published Jan. 23, 2009: Mayor Lovell-Stanners calls Obama

It would be nice if this was they way it actually was. In fact, based on Obama's recent visit to Canada, it sounds like, "because of these troubled economic times blah blah blah," that Obama is going to be more like the real Harper than Harper is going to be like the hyped image of Obama.
I guess the Republican/Conservative plan is working nicely. Want more evidence? Hilary Clinton has apparently said that we can't be worrying about China's bad human rights at this time. So it's business as usual... the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the oppressors get more powerful and the oppressed... well they just keep getting oppressed.

published Oct. 31/08: Peaceful Playgrounds

Another example of how I like to take some local news item or issue and blend it with things that are happening on a provincial, national, or international level. This took the education story and then tagged it up with a city issue (downtown parking), a Grey/Bruce County issue (our M.P.),
and a national issue (the federal election we just needlessly went through).

published Oct. 16/08: Post Election

I still find it amazingly disgusting that Harper breaks his own rule for his opportunistic attempt to gain a majority. Thank God, he failed.... but that does mean another election, and probably sooner than later. Oh well, maybe he can go the way of Bush and McCain. I posted this cartoon the day after the American election.

published cartoons: Sept. 10/08: Contractor tales

When I read the story about the contractor fraud I just made the connection to politics. To be fair to contractors in general, I think a much higher percentage of them do what they say they will and what they get paid to do than politicians.

published cartoons

Maybe it's the best thing to do to tear it down and build new, maybe it's not. Seems like the money they're getting to build new could be used to restore the old part. It just seems a shame that so much of what makes this city unique is being lost lately. If the goal is to look like every other city around our size then I'd say we're well on our way. But once this stuff is gone, it's pretty well gone.... the same as aspects of the environment... like endangered animals, clean air, clean water and all that kind of cost prohibitive stuff that, without imagination, is hard to make a buck on. All I know is that if and when the world ever ends there's going to be a whole whack of rich people with sheepish grins on their faces praying to reverse everything they and others had done. And so it goes.