To say the Dean Del Mastro makes Jason Kenney look like a genius!

That is all.

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

… that’s it’s a-gonna be a hot summer, kids…

Great for tomatoes!!!

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

…huh?

Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey called the decision disappointing.

“Fifty two thousand people in Etobicoke-Centre followed the rules, cast their ballots and today had their democratic decision thrown into doubt,” he said.

Well, no, Mr. DeLorey. Some of those 52,000 voters in the riding did NOT follow the rules and that is why the election results have been overturned. The judge’s ruling in this case is an intrinsic part of the democratic process.

Got a problem with that?

Bring on the by-election!!!!

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

Once legal appeals, in this case, at the SC level, are exhausted.

This election will provide a bit of an insight about whether or not the good folks in Etobicoke Centre have been paying attention to the goings-on of that 3 ring circus called the Harper government. And in turn this may provide an indicator about the feelings of Canadians on the broader scale (outside of Alberta, that is).

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

short and sweet Trashy in China 4.0 version…

Don’t have time to sit in front of my keyboard too much these days, kids… so I hammered out only a couple of things this week Stay tuned for lots of pictures over the weekend!

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It seems as though ReformCon Heritage Minister James Moore has his knickers (offensive word removed at the command of the Minister) in a twist over a new exhibit at the Science and technology Museum.

The folks who run the aging museum though it would be appropriate to have an exhibit entitled Sex: A tell-All exhibit on display at the museum on St. Laurent Blvd. It only just opened on Thursday, so I haven’t yet had the chance to take a look-see for myself. But apparently, the Good Minister of Moral Fibre has decreed that an exhibit that explores sex (offensive word removed at the command of the His Most Holy Minster of Celibacy) – the study of which is, of course, a science – is offensive to His Prudishness and has launched a one-man campaign to have it removed. Never mind that such an exhibit is well within the mandate of the museum and never mind that His Puritanship is the guy responsible for funding things like, uh, museums. Good thing this Adjudicator of Purity is not in charge of Le Louvre… good-bye Venus de Milo!

Even his own colleagues can’t understand why the doofus is kicking up such a prude-fest!

OTTAWA — A Conservative senator said Thursday she can’t see the problem with an Ottawa museum exhibit that’s sparked controversy for its frank depictions of nudity and sexuality.

“It’s what every teenager needs to see,” said Sen. Nancy Ruth. “I’m so very pleased that it’s here. This isn’t a pornographic show at all, it’s an educational show. It’s a show that every family should bring their kids to see.”

Doesn’t this jello-for-brains have anything better to do than charge away at museum public servants with his holy umbrella of prudishness? Maybe, like, propose policies that would benefit and promote arts, heritage and culture in Canada? Crazy, yeah, I know. I guess he’s bored.

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Haikus inspired by Beijing!

The avenues full

Traffic moves like drunken slugs

Horns are incessant

Beijing restaurants

Good food for twenty yuan

Where ducks go to die

Urban planners here

Have a big land to cover

And never think small

Tea poured by ladies

Air conditioning turned off

Sweating profusely

Our interpreters

Make sense of our ramblings

Skilled beyond belief

Public health nurse says

To protect belly from bugs

Pepto-Bismo works

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Tiananmen Square

Only four short klicks away

Sixty minutes by bus

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

We dropped our daughter #2 off at a Brownie camp yesterday north of Kanata close to Dunrobin.

We took March Road off the Queensway and I completely expected that, shortly after exiting, we’d be zooming past farms and trailer parks as we traveled toward the river.

Boy, was I wrong!

Much to my amazement, there is more to Kanata than that strip along the highway! Much more!

Being from a more urban part of Ottawa, I generally think that little of aesthetic worth exists outside the Greenbelt. Yes, there are boxy homes and big box outlets in places like Barrhaven and that wasteland along Innes Road in Orleans. But I never thought that such built form existed even in the wilds of KANATA!

For sure, I knew they had a wave pool and the Scotiabank Place. But drive northward sometime and I’m sure you’ll be as shocked as I was! I cannot even imagine what is situated the south! Lions and dragons, perhaps?

There are stores galour in these northern territories. And homes – likely with running water and utilities hooked into the wider infrastructure grid! Even a LCBO! And schools! And a Sobeys! We in Alta Vista don’t have one of those!

So welcome to that area of north of Kanata… Whatever you’re called. You truly are on par with other Ottawa planning glories. YOU deserve to be uttered in the same breathe as the other Ottawa suburbs!

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

… quite well, I’d say…

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

… for a CFL to burn out this way… major smoke… major acrid smell.

Note the blackened tube and base.

Just askin’…

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

… shooters and omnibus bill edition…

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You might remember a post I scribbled a little while back about a “new” shooter that is perfect for O-Town right now, given all of the lay-offs and transitions…

Well, CBC Ottawa got a hold of this and, well, it kind of led to my bud who came up with the idea being interviewed on CBC Ottawa’s All in a Day.

Cool.

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So, the Harpernerds are out to neuter Parliament yet again with another one of their Omnibus bills!

The so-called Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-38) does a WHOLE LOT MORE than simply put the measures into place to make the Budget “happen”.

As Elizabeth May puts it:

Most of Bill C-38 has nothing to do with fiscal matters or what a budget is supposed to do.  Instead, it attacks environmental legislation, amending the Environmental Assessment Act, the Fisheries Act, the Species at Risk Act, and repealing the Kyoto Implementation Act, along with cancelling the National Round Table on Environment and Economy.

And why not debate these other – and clearly not Budget-related – issues separately?

Simple – the CPC regards Parliament as a nuisance… an obstacle that must be worked around.

Shameful, but predictable.

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“Morguelike” is perhaps the best word to accurately describe the mood in the public service cube land these days.

The cuts to the PS are indeed deep and broad. Families are being hurt. Stress is causing health issues. This is not good.

Whether the cuts were needed at this time or not is debatable (I don’t think they were required to this extent), but they are indeed happening.

But I, like others I have spoken with who are NOT originally from the Ottawa Valley, have a bit of a different perspective on the job losses. Many have had jobs and careers before the Public Service and have experienced job losses or changes in the past. This is normal for most people who don’t hail from these parts. It is a part of life.

Yet not so normal to any great extent to those folks who grew up here, whose parents and grandparents worked for the PS. They have not gone through the life-changing job-related gut wrenches that are pretty much common outside the NCR. es, there was Program Review under Martin, but those who went through that period and this one tell me that the cuts of the 90′s were not as broad and deep as these ones. I don’t know if the numbers bear that out, but that is the impression.

So while these changes are tough on everyone, those who grew up here and have come to expect some measure of stability in their job lives; well, those are the ones hurting the most right now. Their world has been turned literally upside down.

Just an observation.

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Had lunch at the Mill Street Brew Pub yesterday. I highly recommend it!

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Hey! Rush is in town! Why didn’t they call????

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Does anyone really think these stickers are cool? Really?

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Finally, a huge Trashy congrats to my bro’ and sis in-laws (and my nephew and niece too) on welcoming a new oenophile to the flock! I can’t wait to meet her!

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario