Posts Tagged: Ontarianada
Oshawa
Posted by on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 in - 3 comments
I wrote the other day about how Ontario needs to get selfish within confederation. I've noted in the past how at some point my family sends around $8,000 a year into the budget for inter-provincial equalization transfers, a position which I am both grateful and a little frustrated with. But …
I Get To Vote Next Week - What To Do?
Posted by on Monday, October 1, 2007 in - 12 comments
This year's provincial election confirms again that Ontarianada continues to define the nation but still is shy of itself. The issues here are the issues of the land but no one is really talking about them. The laws created here will be copied, the wealth will support schools and hospitals …
An Election In Ontario
Posted by on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 in - 8 comments
Ontario suffers from a funny sort of guilt - sorry it is so large and populous and diverse and economically strong and sets the national agenda. It could spin off Toronto, you know...that might work. And, because someone had a whacky idea a few years back, Ontario has fixed provincial elections … read more »
What Next...No Butter Knives?
Posted by on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 in - 2 comments
I am not exactly a candidate for NRA membership but this bit of news about shutting down a Toronto university shooting range with a perfect track record smacks heavily of something very smelly: • “While news of the closing came to light recently, the university made the decision months ago …
Postal Union Foistery Upon Ontarianada
Posted by on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 in - 1 comment
Seems like one day cannot go by without us getting mixed signals about the Postal Unionists approach to Canada as a nation. Whereas it seems like only yesterday that it was let my people be when Lower Canada or Westbertia is in question, today it seems that inter-meddling with the affairs of a …
Your Nation Of Ontarianada Icons
Posted by on Monday, December 18, 2006 in - leave a comment
So as we are implicitly move to the creation of the national myth of the state of Ontarianada within the Postal Union of Canada, it is important to get onto the iconographic bandwagon and here is one of my favorites. A grand old flag located on a great public service, the Highway 33 ferry from …
