Graphs are fun
So Google has a fun time killer (among others) called Google Trends.
Using the tool you can compare various searches over the past 30 days (or several years), and to only Canadian searches. So what do we get if we look at the election (excluding the Bloc, because no one outside Quebec should give a damn about anyways?
Positive responses
I didn't get a chance yesterday to transcribe the letters that came out in the Gateway, in support of the secular convocation op-ed I had written. And as I expected, the Gateway followed last Thursday's negative letters with some positive ones.
I called it what it was
Let's review the facts and events so far, and then I'll throw my commentary in on this.
Photonics briefs delayed
I ended up catching a cold that built up to put me straight to bed Sunday evening, so I didn't manage to get around to writing a new episode of Photonics Briefs. And with the fiasco yesterday, and continued election campaign, I'm putting Photonics Briefs on hiatus until at least this Sunday - if not later.
Harper to upstage UofA debate
Update: It appears the UofA's Candidates forum has been postponed to Monday. I guess Jaffer made his priorities known.
It looks like Harper accepted Jack Layton's challenge and is coming to Edmonton - this Thursday (at the Ramada Inn on Kingsway).
Unfortunately, this is also the day of the Edmonton-Strathcona all-candidates forum.
It will be quite telling to see if Jaffer values his party or his constituents more.
UofA shows intolerance and hate
If Judah's letter in the Gateway didn't expose the intolerance of non-theistic beliefs at the University of Alberta, perhaps this will:
This is not a joke, this is a serious hate crime.
I have contacted Campus Security and have sent a press release to the local media outlets.
Canada to Dion: not buying it
CBC is often criticized as a very "Liberal-friendly" news source, however I didn't exactly find a basis for such a statement in today's article: "Conservative lead widens, poll suggests". My first though was that the Conservatives are actually doing better, but alas to my rejoice I found the following new poll data:
The Tories have dropped one percentage point over a week, and the Liberals are down three points.
The NDP is up two points at 17 per cent, and the Greens are also up two points at 11 per cent.
The Bloc Québécois (BQ), which is running candidates in Quebec alone, is unchanged at eight per cent.
Basically, what they report is that the Liberals are losing ground, but to the NDP and Greens.
What I really find interesting is that now if the NDP and Greens pooled support, they would defeat the Libearls for the opposition status (the Liberals have 23% support in the poll).
With a couple weeks to go it's just a matter of Jack Layton convincing the rest of his potential supporters that he has the best platform to tackle Canada's environmental difficulties.
Interestingly enough, the poll also asked who Canadian's thought would be the best leader, and Layton came out far ahead of the rest (especially Harper and Dion who placed last):
Layton's ranking is 16, the BQ's Gilles Duceppe 12, the Green's Elizabeth May 10, the Conservatives' Stephen Harper four, and Dion minus 24.
Wow. Thats twisted.
As you all know, 2009 is the 150th aniversary of Darwin's Origin. And our favourite popularizer of piglet rape is working to counter the inevitable evilutionist push.
No surprises here.
What does surprise me is that Ken Ham thinks that natural selection is not evolution.
What does that whackaloon think is?
Shortened Journal appearance
Another letter in the Journal, this time though, they cropped it down a bit:
Re: "Voters not buying what leaders are selling; Poll; Widespread dissatisfaction makes another minority government more likely: Ipsos Reid," The Journal, Sept. 18.
The reporter should check his facts when he says the Conservatives approval rating is "64 per cent in Harper's home province of Alberta." Stephen Harper was born and raised in Toronto.
Ian Bushfield, Edmonton
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