Snow day coming, too. In November. Global cooling is good. The bog lake even looked better with that beach at Elevator Bay, the one that emerged over the last few months, being flooded over. The swans returned there this week. December is tomorrow which will make next year next month.

• Update: it just keeps getting better for the NuKleenGov as it turns out Mulroney also lobbied on behalf of his clients benefitting from changes to the regulation of wirelessness.
• Your Santana update.
• Zoot alors. Il a un backbone! I suspect now the strategy is to give the Tories enough rope to hang themselves. Can they actually pull it off. Could the other Steve be PM in 2008? Who would have thought the options for PM would be Steve or Steve?
• Aussie politicians are apparently thieving bastards whose plans have been thwarted.
• Plucky. Damn plucky.
• By the way, part of your Canadian heritage: "Between 1929 and 1972, 4785 cases were presented to the board, and 99% of these cases were approved." Why don't we know more about this? Why didn't I know it was around until 1972?