Here it is, all in full living colour, with action packed scenes,a full length movie (in 4 parts)about our very own Bruce. Go ahead, grab the popcorn, sit back and relax, and watch what COULD happen...

I dare you....

(parts 2-4 HERE)

Here it is..all on one page..local food suppliers, from Organics to Beer.Even restaurant listings that buy and serve local products. Isn't this what we ALL should be doing?(ahem..note to Frank....no listings for Sauble..yet:) )

in today's sun times, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound chief returning officer Linda Van Aalst says:

Van Aalst confirmed computers caused enormous inconvenience for both election workers and a large percentage of especially rural voters. The computer program that created the voter cards and lists electronically could not seem to accept many rural addresses, often sending voters to polling stations often far from their homes.

Even after local Elections Ontario workers rewrote addresses to remove lot and concession numbers and used new county fire numbers and updated municipalities since amalgamation eight years ago, the computer in many cases added wrong addresses, Van Aalst said.

Same old, same old, the political map of Ontario not only didn't change, if anything, the colours got re-inked a little darker, just for extra measure ...

The Liberals under Dalton McGuinty won the election with a majority government. ... In the same election, there was a provincial referendum on whether to change from first-past-the-post to mixed member proportional representation ... This measure failed by a wide margin.
[ Ontario general election, 2007 - Wikipedia ]

And so it goes. Locally, The Globe reports Bill Murdoch miles ahead at 46.7%, with Shane Jolley thirteen points behind him, and the Liberal guy another nine points behind that, with four-fifths of the slack to the NDP. No real surprises there.

Could Bruce-Grey be teetering on the edge of Green? Another on-the-spot report from theOwen, this time a thoughtful podcast of the all-candidates meeting for those who may have missed it, but also a novel indicator of public support (among those present) in a graphic illustration out of the Applause-o-meter:

There was also a few remarks regarding the audience support for candidates as indicated by the applause following each final remark. Here is a screenshot of the recorded audio file for comparison...

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If I may can get some feed back on this. My gut says this is wrong but I know the voices of
of many may disagree.
What will be th outcome and finality of the tabbacco farmers being told they are out of business.
Despite your individual moods on this, isnt it wrong to just say you are sht down.
Now I only caught a bit of info and I am not sure what is in the process. But
for the government to make Millions ( Billions) off these people and then because it may seem and could be the right thing to do cut them off, and then not compensate becase thier lawyers will
play the "correct" card and say you are not eligible dadedadeadeda.
For many years the government has bankrolled promises based on this income and niow
just toddle off and get a new life.

Is our government smoking crack? Seriously, I really struggled with a headline for this story, because the insanity of what I'm about to relate defies any snappy encapsulation. KeeMay went to bed tonight in a shaking rage over it, and it all boils down to a bunch of kids who want to run a race.

Here's the thing: our annual Bluewater East Elementary Cross Country Championships are traditionally held at the Meaford Land Force Central Training Centre, a plot of stubbly land we affectionately call The Tank Range, and normally we just sign the usual permission forms and the kids board a bus and off they go and very often some youngster from Amabel-Sauble comes home with the big prize, only this year the permissions package contains an ominous new document that carries the doubly ominous bold and bordered banner warning

"Note: This document creates legal obligations for you once it is signed"

... and the legal rights it strips from the signers are not just sinister, they are positively frightening.

Now, I can almost justify the clause allowing spontaneous and unexplained personal search and detention, given we're at war, but just for example, and maybe I'm wrong here, aren't we here in the modern civilized world already indemnified from financial debts incurred by our parents? Didn't that go out with the Great Depression? Well, no, apparently it ain't so if your dad had been the unlucky young boy who strayed into our Government Land today ...

Further to garym’s blog “The Bicycle Highway”, I’m surprised no one has yet identified the bigger picture regarding the upcoming upgrades to County Road 13 from Ferndale to Southampton.

On September 2, 2004 Bruce County Council released its Revised Bruce County Road Designation Study Final Report. This report states that the councils of Northern and South Bruce Peninsula support a Collector Road from the Oliphant corner on County Road 13 to County Road 9 west of Ferndale. Schedule D of this report sets out budget costs of over $8 million for this upgrade (2004 figures).

A bike lane along the County Road 13? That's the request put to the County by Justin Julian, a safe passageway stretching from Sauble Beach to Southampton to accommodate and encourage alternative transport:

He says bicycling has economic, environmental and health benefits - and the bike route could boost tourism.
On the down side, county engineer Brian Knox says a one-metre-wide bike lane increases the cost of building and paving a road by one-third - a sum that's not in the existing road construction budget.

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