Exciting times in Canadian politics

The Tories screwed up big time, with their unhelpful, ideologically driven budgetary update. Now the three opposition parties-the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois-have banded together for the first true coalition since WWI. Amazing!

STOP. Breathe. Read this.

Whatever your take on it- illness, genes, character flaw, flightiness- mental illness is real. And fatal. I'm not sure that people take it seriously enough, but the Globe and Mail is doing an excellent job in exposing the issue in this ongoing series. If you're reading this, stop right now and go check it out.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/breakdown

ironic proximity forsooth

Check out this Toronto image. Fans of 1984 and visual irony, enjoy!

Aparrotly, Monty Python's sketch wasn't the first in line :P

getting started

Thought now might be a good time to organise the miscellany in my head. Namespotting, life, comic relief, newsworthy, yum. I've tried this before. Let's see if this time it'll stick...