American Justice and Politics

SEVERE that is the only proper paradigm I can provide for the American System of Politics and Justice. Open court rules, take "no prisoners" and stop at nothing to achieve results. The newest missive from the Dems at the Republicans is that Attorney General Gonzalez has resigned due to improprieties in voting investigations. His accusers, and there are many in the Dems ranks, say that as Attorney General he ordered that all Democratic Voting Irregularities be investigated to the max to determine fraud. Nothing on Republican Voters. It is at junctures like this that I appreciate our Canadian System of Justice and Government. The impartiality of the Chief Electoral Officers and their staff. Public servants with honourable undertakings and whom provide a good third party view as opposed to the Attorney Generals Office in the U.S.. Our system may have troubles but Voting Irregularities (of this magnitude anyways) are not one of them. We just need voters to turn out and become engaged especially in the 18-35 year old Category. Now there is a question for a Royal Commission Study..why do Canadian Voters not vote and what can we do to change that?

Fox News Factor...whaaattt?

Watching CNN this morning I saw a poll that stated 76% of Americans whom watch Fox News do not trust American politicians while ONLY 36% of Americans who do NOT watch Fox News do not trust American politicians. Is the American Public that brainwashed by the Right Wing Fanatics at Fox? Is there no freedom of thought, belief and expression of those beliefs? I know Don Cherry wields a heavy influence especially on younger Canadian hockey fans but do we also have a such a myopic and shallow view of our world that our CBC dictates Canadian viewpoint? Kind of scary especially in our wired world where information is at our fingertips in a nano-second. I for one am glad we have the blogsphere, internet, news services and facebook to cultivate and appreciate other points of view.

Ryan Androsoff - New Age Liberal for Saskatoon

Some of the best things in life are experienced through the actions of friends and family. Today is one of those days when I am told that a close friend of mine, Ryan Androsoff Prairie Fire blogger is seriously considering running for the Saskatchewan Liberal Party. A great guy, with a super work ethic and some new age ideas as proposed in his "308 Seat Strategy". Ryan has served with the World Bank , has advised our Liberal Federal Ministers and has been on the ground with the Federal Leadership Campaign. He has proven he has great tact and diplomacy with people and even stronger understanding and appreciation for the volunteers and Liberals that make up our great party. His candidacy will be a welcome and strong addition to Karwicki's Provincial Team. This next Saskatchewan Election looks like the Libs may well make a statement and have a strong presence. I knocked on doors for Liberals in Saskatchewan before and I look forward with great expectations to doing the same for Ryan!!! Bring home a Liberal Seat Ryan!!!

Canadian Wheat Board - where are are we?

The recent strike down by the Supreme Court of Canada of the Reform/Alliance/ Conservative attempt to remove the Barley Monopoly of the CWB was met with what Liberal opposition? Strangely not a whisper from the Leader, our Critics or even our Western MP's on the Liberal response to the Courts ruling. I find this concerning as the CWB had the potential to bring us back to the Polls but no "stop this or else" ultimatums from the Liberal ranks only media pundits inferring what Liberal policy is. Even the Winnipeg Free Press did not pick up on our Leaders position which he firmly advocated in March 2007 here in Winnipeg at the LPC(M) AGM that he would do everything possible to protect the CWB. We need swift and decisive action to STOP the Reform/Alliance/Conservatives and regain some much needed ground with not only Western farmers but Quebec and Ontario Farmers concerned over marketing boards and their role in Canada's Agriculture policy. Lets get back to the basic Liberal principles of respect, cooperation and working together and begin the campaign to "Bring Back Canada" from the Reform/Alliance/Conservatives and their American based right wing philosophy. We have seen this on Foreign policy, we have sen this on Defence policy, we have seen this on the environment and now we are seeing it on our Wheat Board. Stop Harper now !!

Small Town Disaster

As you ALL know I hail from god's country - N.W.O. and a small and vibrant community deep in the heart of the Canadian Shield - Atikokan. Well tragedy has struck our community over the weekend a young 17-year old gal Krysta Mosley daughter of Jim Mosley was killed in a one vehicle accident . 2 friends in the vehicle with her were air lifted to Thunder Bay and remain in critical condition and 1 friend walked away. Many factors contributed to the accident that took her life but all add up to a small town crisis. The loss of someone so young and full of life, next generation of our community is hard to accept.

A face book group entitled In Loving Memory of Krysta Mosley has been started for more info.

Life is precious and we need to enjoy every minute of it. My heartfelt sorrow, compassion and thoughts go to Krysta's friends and family on this tragic day in their life.