Don't Write A Letter, When You Want To Leave...

Well, Council this evening was quite long, yet paradoxically short on substance. The proposal to create a committee to oversee a Council newsletter went down in defeat after a rather drawn-out debate. I don't think the idea was bad in principle, but in the end there were just too many questions. I anticipate that the newsletter proposal will come back in another form, so it will be interesting to see how many of these outstanding questions will be dealt with. Gary and Josh's proposal to use The Bridge (the ESS newsletter) as an outreach medium is an interesting one, though I'm sure advocates of the water-tight compartments conception of SU/FA relations must be cringing at the thought.

In other matters, the strawberry daquiris that are on the "seasonal specials" menu right now at Earl's are quite good. Sickly sweet alcoholic beverages are the perfect complement to sticky, hot summer days. They've also got a strawberry pie as well, so I'm going to have to try that before they change the menu.

Election Results

Well, the election results didn't exactly break as I would have hoped, but I suppose it could be worse. It will be interesting to have a minority government, as I think this may be the first time that this has actually happened during my lifetime. It also looks like there will be a fair number of recounts as well. Unfortunately, Erin Weir was unable to unseat Ralph Goodale in Wascana. While I'm acquainted with a number of other candidates running (mostly for the NDP) Erin is probably the one I knew best (I'm something like 1-5 against him in CP Debate Rounds, including two final rounds), so it would have been interesting to see if he had gotten in.

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Ok, I too have jumped on the bandwagon. We'll see how long this craze lasts.