Just a little update on the parliamentary situation that I blogged about a few days back: The Canadian Parliament has been suspended and the politicians will sit at home on full pay, giving me some very familiar reminders of how government is run in Northern Ireland. MORE »

I got in the car for my daily ride to work this morning and in the back ground some guy was ranting on about something on the radio. It was the usual morning radio debate but after a few minutes when I realised it wasn’t about sport I had to enquire what this guy was getting so much air time for when just hours before (due to the 3 hour time difference to the West coast) the Leafs had finished a game in Los Angeles against the Kings? Turns out the guy was talking about some serious stuff. So serious that although it was getting newspaper and news website attention, nobody mentioned it in work, at home or anywhere else since. What is this serious thing? A political coup-de-ta in a Western World country. That’s what.

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What other way to spend an Indian Summer evening than by heading downtown to watch some top end, high calibre hockey with a bit of high calibre historic politics on the side. Outside it was 20 degrees which surprised a lot of people considering how close to freezing it had been just a week before, but it was heating up in the American Presidential race so the weather I guess followed suit. Had I not been catching the bus and then subway into the heart of the city after work this would have been perfect weather for a cycle home. It was certainly perfect for all them thousands gathered anxiously in Chicago hoping for the good news.

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It’s been a busy week/weekend here. This past weekend was Thanksgiving weekend so we had the Monday off work and so makes it a four day week. Shouldn’t it always be a four day week? We spent the weekend up near Peterborough with Kim’s family having some excellent food. Thanksgiving requires a Turkey dinner much in the mold of Christmas day so you certainly didn’t find me complaining about that. We went up on the Saturday morning and returned late Sunday evening with filled stomachs. MORE »