Manitobans welcome to idea of North-Western Ontario annexation

For the last year or so there have been lots of talks from Northern Ontario politicians of the region separating from Ontario and joining Manitoba, due to lower hydro costs, better chance for the "lumber industry to be saved" and many other financial related ideas that would save themselves money.

It looks like a majority of Manitobans who were polled on the idea are interested on the idea themselves, including myself, approx 75% of the people polled said they were interested in the idea of North-West Ontario (Kenora, Thunder Bay) joining Manitoba.

Story: Link

Canadian families prefer national daycare over payout

This is a huge contradiction over what I kept hearing around the election period. There was a study done by the YWCA over national daycare vs payment for preferred daycare, and it looks as if people prefer national daycare more than a payout.

Link: Click

"Knee in my package"

I'm a regular viewer of the Mercer Report and just found a video that's so true and funny titled "Knee in my package". This is a spoof of the Capital One "Hands in my Pocket" commercial.

Link: HERE

Corruption in municipal politics

There's a local municipality in this part of Manitoba that doesn't seem to be holding fair elections, mainly over "fair boundaries", where areas that have more support to the current governing municipal groups are may have much different sized boundaries than areas that have less support. This municipality (RM of Strathcona) is getting complained to by local citizens to the provincial board of municipalities, but who knows what will be done about it at this time.

Read: CBC.ca

Ralph Klein to retire in 2007/2008

Ralph Klein will be retiring as leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, and premier of Alberta in 2007 since there's a bit of a push by his own party to get in new blood within the party. He's planning on retiring sometime between late 2007 or early 2008, depending on party needs, and maybe earlier if the party is pushing for it.

Read: CTV.ca

Funny Rip-off of Wikipedia

I'm sure everyone here is familiar with Wikipedia, which is the world's largest online encyclopedia, which is based on users' submissions of data.

There's now a satirical take on Wikipedia named Uncyclopedia.org, which is like an encyclopedia version of The Onion, full of satire. I really like checking out the articles there but lots of people don't like it when people edit their satire articles, like as if they "own" the article.

But anywho, check it out if you want to.

Bob Rae to possibly run for the Liberal Party

It looks like Bob Rae, who's well known to people in Ontario as that premier from 1990-1995 who screwed over the province big time with his NDP government that surprisingly got into office.

Now Bob Rae is thinking about running for the leadership of the national Liberal Party... good luck.. he'll need it. The party will lose all their "remaining" support in Ontario if he's selected as leader.

Story: National Post

My first post here

Hey, it's my first blog post here.

My name's Cody, I'm 20 years old and a 3rd year Political Science major at Brandon University.

I'm involved with the Political Science club here at school and this blog is basically about my drunken ramblings and news that catches my eye.