An Urban Daddy’s Tip on Dealing with Halloween Candy

For those of you relatively new to my blog you may have missed my older posts about Halloween.  So you don’t have to go back and look them up, I have provided the Coles Notes version;

I hate Halloween.

I hate dressing up.

I hate knocking of strangers’ doors asking for candy. The begging aspect turns me off, but hey, kids these days love it!

Just last week I told an 18-year-old that they should not go trick or treating.

I also stepped in when my kids asked our 32-year-old nanny if she was trick or treating (she’s really petit and looks about 12, poor girl). Apparently being a devout Christian they don’t accept holidays surrounding the dead, the devil and the like. Who knew?!?

Anyways… Back on topic.

Candy! Chocolate! Gum! Sweets! Cavities! All things kids will get tonight unless we as parents step in and take all their candy from them.  How you ask?  Well when Linus was 2-years-old, my wife came up with an amazing suggestion. She asked Linus if he wanted to trade all his candy for a new toy. Turns out if you start the tradition early (assuming your kids, like our kids do not eat sugary treats everyday) they jump at this offer and boy did Linus jump at our offer big time.

So for the past 4 years we have been trading the kids candy for toys and just this past weekend we bought the boys’ BeyBlades which they will get tonight upon returning from their trick or treating.

Now, before you start commenting on how horrible we are for taking the kids candy and eating it and yes, if I eat another piece of candy I’ll burst, keep this in mind. First we get the kids to dump their candy on the table and I take out the yucky stuff they are not allowed like gum, and apples with razor blades in them. Then we ask the kids to pick 5 pieces of candy (not including the stuff they inhale during the evening) and they put that aside. Then we take the yucky stuff neither my wife nor I will eat and we immediately give that stuff away to the hoards of trick or treaters that come to our house.

Then we eat the rest of the candy (or I give it out to my staff, I can’t remember).  I’m pretty sure my wife will steal all the good stuff she likes; Reese Peanut Butter Cups, Twix and (ugh) Coffee Crisp and while saving me from getting fatter, she will wisely hide them.

I will take whatever is left and set it out of harms way from the kids.

So now the kids have only a few treats and a brand new toy.

 

Now all I will need is their help as we take any of the remaining pumpkins on our front steps (we had 20 of them ranging from large to very small) and cook with them.  I like making stuff with the pumpkins – bread, soup, loaf, cookies. but never a pie.

I wanted to make something to take to the homeless but based on my pumpkin failures, I don’t want to force anyone to eat one of my “creations”.

 

Happy Halloween.

 

BOO.

A little research never hurt anyone, right? Talkin about Chickenfoot.

If there is one thing I hate, it’s spouting off facts and figures from the top of head not knowing if it’s right or wrong.  In the good old days we had encyclopedia’s, but nowadays we have this thing called the Internet so we do not know if the facts we read are true or not.  Any loser can start a blog and write stuff (case in point, you’re reading mine), so what I try to do is research my facts to make sure I add some credibility to my statements, or bitch sessions.

Case in point number #1 today is the band Chickenfoot.  I heard them on Octane, Channel 37 on XM satellite radio, so I presumed they were a new band headed up my former Van Halen lead singer Sammy Hager.  So I bought some of their music from iTunes and added it to my iPod.  Soap on a Rope and Oh Yeah are the best of the very limited songs I have heard.

Then last week I heard them on XM radio 38 which is the Boneyard.  As far as I knew that channel was for older music so immediately I became puzzled wondering if the band was new, or maybe older and I started to think that Van Halen could have picked up Hagar from this band.

Wanting to post something, I hit up my friend Google for some more information.  Turns out the band is a recent thing.  And while reading over multiple sources, I now realize why I like their stuff;

Chickenfoot is the title for the “supergroup” featuring ex-Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony along with incredible guitarist Joe Satriani and drummer Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

So here’s my dilemma… I don’t like Hagar very much.  His voice kind of grates on my nerves when I listen to him often and I didn’t like “I Can’t Drive 55″ at all.  There was some stuff of his when with Van Halen that I really liked, Poundcake and some of the ballads, but overall, I liked the music and not the voice.  I suspect the same will stand here.  I think with Hagar they are good, but with a different voice, they may be better… Or not.  What do I know, really. 

What do you think?  I linked to the YouTube version of Soap on a Rope.  Give it a listen and let me know what your thoughts are.

So so Smooth… I could learn from him.

Man, what a smooth talker!  I could learn from this one.

Stewie, I’m referring to.  5-year-old Stewie.

You see, he wore a nice shirt to school for his class picture but at some point in the day he got hot and took it off.   Of course, he forgot to put it back on which meant his individual SK picture will be of him in an army green t-shirt that reads, “Mom’s Cabana Cutie” on it, and not in a nicely chosen shirt.

When I commented to his mother that at least the shirt was accurate – he LOVES his mother, he looked down at his shirt and commented;

“Does my shirt say Mom is terrible???”

We both looked at each other, very puzzled and shocked that he would say that.

“Do you think your mother is terrible?” she asked him.

“No”, he replied with a smirk on his face.

“Do you think your mother is terrible?” she repeated?

“No” he said again, a little more seriously, still with a smirk.

“What do you think of your mother?” she asked him.

“Mom is pretty” he replied, looking very proud.

“Mom is smart”, he said right after.

Man, he learns at such an early age, eh?

Happy wife = happy life.

Happy mummy = happy tummy.

I could learn from this kid!

Babble.com’s Top 50 Daddy Blogs of 2011

I saw on Twitter today that Babble.com has come out with their list of the Top 50 Dad Blogs for 2011, and while I am not on the list (must be an oversight, eh?)  I love finding new Daddy bloggers to read, talk about and bond with.

The link is below;

http://www.babble.com/dad/fatherhood/top-50-dad-blogs-full-list/

Fortunately for me, some kind soul added me to the list of “nominate me” blogs, so you can go there (please) and click “like” by my blog and get it up near the top of the rankings…

http://www.babble.com/dad/fatherhood/top-50-dad-blogs-nominate-a-dad/

 

So go forth, read some Daddy bloggers and enjoy Babble’s list.

How did you spend your weekend?

Holy!

It’s Monday.  Man that weekend went so fast!  With kids programs, and putting together all the Ikea shelving we bought last week, there was no time to rest, relax or blog.

There is so much to catch up on, I don’t even know where to start.  So I’ll start with bullet points and expand where necessary;

• So Libya killed Gaddafi and the new rulers, propped up by many nations around the world, are bringing in Islamic rule, Sharia law into Libya.  Not good for the Christians or Jews there.  Already the new government is booting out the Jewish residents and denying any changes to the Synagogue in Tripoli.  Can you say Nazi Germany???  My wife and I have been in Poland where Hitler did the same and used the Synagogues as horse stables.  How nice…
• Did they really need to kill Gaddafi?  They had him, his was begging to live.  I think having him alive to see the citizens he tortured taking his possessions is enough torture, no?
• So after having what I thought was a terrible karate class, Linus was rewarded with a stripe.  Now he only needs one more and he can grade for his green belt.  All this is moot because he hates the classes – they are slow and he loves playing around and being goofy – and he really only uses his correct techniques when punching his brother at home.  If he displayed that same form and intensity in class he’d be on his purple belt!
• Stewie on the other hand, who just turned 5, was moved up to the yellow belt class with kids 6 years old plus.  He’s not developing in the lower class and unlike distracted Linus, Stewie is VERY focussed and wants to move up… NOW!  They’ll be in the same class by January.
• On the cute front was watching Linus and Stewie teaching Berry karate.  Seeing her making the moves and yelling Key-yi was hilarious.
• Speaking of Berry… She’s potty training.  Thank goodness.  Sure, she’s not 2-year-old until the end of next month, but we bought her Hello Kitty panties and to wear them she has to sit on the potty.  I hope all this potty sitting translates into no diapers.  I’m getting tired of the cloth diapers – the diaper wraps are showing their age.  But a huge thank you to Comfy Cotton in Markham for getting my kids potty trained at 2 1/2 and 3 1/4.  Let’s see how quickly the girl gets moving.  I know having a cold wet diaper next to their bottoms was the major reason for the push.
• On the weekend along with karate, the kids helped me take down the Sukkah.  Which kids?  Linus and Berry, of course.  Linus shlepped the heavy metal brackets from the backyard to the storage under the front steps while Berry helped him sweep the leaves off the patio.  Linus was awesome.  Such a big boy.  And no, the gate was not open enough for our neighbour to see it and threaten to “sue” us.  He was out with family.
• I let the boys put up the Halloween decorations this year.  I looked and they did an awesome job.  They said we need more decorations and I think because a neighbour has 30 life-sized zombies on his front lawn.  His house gets converted into a cemetery and compared to that, our house does suck.
• I signed up to play ball hockey this winter.  I received a call from the captain and he seemed interested but has not called back to give me the details of the first game.  I know the team name and where the games are played, however.  I wonder if he was having second thoughts after finding out I was 40?!?  I didn’t mention to him that in 20 years of playing my team has won 4 league championships and more recently, the teams I have joined have gone from giving up more than 5 goals a game to less that 3 goals per game and in those games I’m playing even strength, power play and penalty killing.  I join the rush and am a plus-player.  Oh, well.  This Thursday is the first game and my wife and I have theatre tickets.
• Thinking I had free time, I have proven it is impossible for me to say “no”, by joining the Boy Scouts to be a leader in my son, Linus’ Beaver troop.  It’s Wednesday nights, and after being there for one meeting I felt they needed additional support to keep the kids in line.  20 kids aged 5, 6, or 7 can be crazy.  Plus I was a Beaver, Cub, Scout and Venturer… I signed the application form and it needs to be sent for reference checks and a police check and then I’ll be good to go.  My Dad was my leader and he would be so proud of seeing Linus in Scouting.  Oddly enough, Stewie does NOT want to join Beavers as he doesn’t want to “wear a costume”.  OY.
• Visit number one to the Holistic Naturalpathic Doctor resulted in me now taking a crap-load of supplements.  I have 5 bottles with drops, one bottle of seaweed pills, and 4 other pills.  The good part about them is that the Glyco Support is keeping my blood sugar at a constant level and I feel great all day.  No ups and downs.  My temper is in control and I don’t cry watching Grey’s Anatomy.  The most difficult challenge for me, however is going to be getting more sleep and eating the diet she wants me to eat for my blood type, which I found out was A+.  No beef, no dairy, no wheat, no coffee…   I know I’ll lose weight but I don’t know how much of this I can pull off.
• So karate, swimming, Beavers… No wonder we spend all weekend cleaning and resting instead of heading out to do stuff as a family. 
• So I was up until almost 1am last night organizing toys in the basement, putting them in the correct bins.  Care to guess how long it will take before stuff winds up in the wrong bins???  That drives me crazy!  I’ll bet they’re in disarry right now!
• I saw that 26 members of the Toronto lingerie league football team have left the team as a result of bad coaching and “poor equipment”.  I have not paid attention to this league because I don’t get football, but these athletes are playing in a bra and panties, no?  So if that’s what you signed up for, how can you complain about the equipment?  I understand the helmets are hockey helmets and not football helmets.  If they are that concenred about safety, then the league needs to get these girls elbow and knee pads too.  If it’s supposed to be real football, make it safe.  Leave the wardrobe malfunctions to attract the audiences, but keep the girls safe.
• Under the category of EWWWWW; I am always after my boys to not pick their noses and then put their fingers in their mouthes.  Tons of kids do it and it’s gross.  This past Sunday at karate took the cake as a girl sitting beside Linus picked her nose, then immediately sucked it off her finger.  Then went to the next nostril, and into the mouth.  But what made it super-ewww, was when she wiped her nose with the back of her hand, then I had the “pleasure” of watching her see there was nose-stuff on her hand, and then see her lick it all off the back of her hand.  UGH.  Sorry.  Had to share!
• I hate, hate, hate that when I’m trying to put gas into my car, the #$%^&^% machine tells me “pump is ready” and stupid me clicks the handle and it’s not ready.  It’s never ready.  Why can’t the message wait 2 seconds then say it’s ready when it’s actually ready… Drives me crazy!
• And finally, have you ever noticed that replacing cash with debit cards, and credit cards, etc. was intended to make it “easier” for us to pay for things, but it’s not!  With PIN’s and chips, swiping and passwords, you now need a friggin computer science degree to pay for a loaf of bread.  Cash please!

Hi, Generation “Y”. Generation “X” is sick of your bullsh*t…

For the purpose of this article it’s important to note that Gen x’ers were born from 1965-1983. Generation y’s were born from 1984 to 2002.  If you’re a gen x, with kids who is around 40-45 years old than you will love this…

My wife read this post to me last night while we were waiting to see the play, “Chess” at the Princess of Wales theatre in Toronto. The play was terrible, but dinner and the company was amazing.  It was so very nice to get out without the kids, eventhough we were both exhausted.. Generation X’ers you get it right?

In light of the G20, Occupy Toronto (and other places) and all the whining going around, I had to re-post this article called Generation X is tired of your Bullshit.  Here is a link to the original post; http://www.emptyage.com/post/11591863916/generation-x-doesnt-want-to-hear-it

So here it is!

Generation X is sick of your bullshit.

The first generation to do worse than its parents?

Please.

Been there.

Generation X was told that so many times that it can’t even read those words without hearing Winona Ryder’s voice in its heads. Or maybe it’s Ethan Hawke’s. Possibly Bridget Fonda’s. Generation X is getting older, and can’t remember those movies so well anymore. In retrospect, maybe they weren’t very good to begin with.

But Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to it.)

Generation X is used to being fucked over. It lost its meager savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George Bush, and 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that. And then came the housing crisis.

Generation X wasn’t surprised. Generation X kind of expected it.

Generation X is a journeyman. It didn’t invent hip hop, or punk rock, or even electronica (it’s pretty sure those dudes in Kraftwerk are boomers) but it perfected all of them, and made them its own. It didn’t invent the Web, but it largely built the damn thing. Generation X gave you Google and Twitter and blogging; Run DMC and Radiohead and Nirvana and Notorious B.I.G. Not that it gets any credit.

But that’s okay. Generation X is used to being ignored, stuffed between two much larger, much more vocal, demographics. But whatever! Generation X is self-sufficient. It was a latchkey child. Its parents were too busy fulfilling their own personal ambitions to notice any of its trophies-which were admittedly few and far between because they were only awarded for victories, not participation.

In fairness, Generation X could use a better spokesperson. Barack Obama is just a little too senior to count among its own, and it has debts older than Mark Zuckerberg. Generation X hasn’t had a real voice since Kurt Cobain blew his brains out, Tupac was murdered, Jeff Mangum went crazy, David Foster Wallace hung himself, Jeff Buckley drowned, River Phoenix overdosed, Elliott Smith stabbed himself (twice) in the heart, Axl got fat.

Generation X is beyond all that bullshit now. It quit smoking and doing coke a long time ago. It has blood pressure issues and is heavier than it would like to be. It might still take some ecstasy, if it knew where to get some. But probably not. Generation X has to be up really early tomorrow morning.

Generation X is tired.

It’s a parent now, and there’s always so damn much to do. Generation X wishes it had better health insurance and a deeper savings account. It wonders where its 30s went. It wonders if it still has time to catch up.

Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone. It just wants to sit here quietly and think for a minute. Can you just do that, okay? It knows that you are so very special and so very numerous, but can you just leave it alone? Just for a little bit? Just long enough to sneak one last fucking cigarette? No?

Whatever. It’s cool.

Generation X is used to disappointments. Generation X knows you didn’t even read the whole thing. It doesn’t want or expect your reblogs; it picked the wrong platform.

Generation X should have posted this to LiveJournal.

2011 Boston Red Sox – Best Team EVER!!!

It all started right here; http://www.massholesports.com/2011/03/boston-herald-declares-2011-red-sox.html

The Boston Herald proclaimed prior to the 2011 Major League Baseball season that the Boston Red Sox, 2011 edition, were the best team ever!

Such lofty praise.

After 6 games in the season, they stood at a wonderful 0-6. Headlines like this; “Boston Red Sox Start Season 0-6 for First Time Since 1945 after 1-0 loss to Cleveland.” were more common that the later one.

Yikes!

At that time, they and the Tampa Bay Rays (nee Devil Rays) were both 0-6 and we know what happened to the Rays, making up all that ground in the last couple weeks of the season combined with a colossal Red Sox collapse to see the Rays take the wild-card spot.

Since that time, the GM, Theo Epstein fired manager Terry Francona, then a few days ago, Epstein himself stepped down to take the GM job with the Chicago Cubs. Such drama!!! Why fire the manager if you’re leaving unless you intend on hiring him when you’re in Chicago officially.

Boy does all this sting even more when it came out that starting pitchers Josh Beckett, John Lackey and Jon Lester, who joined by Clay Buchholz later on, drank beer in the clubhouse, ate fried chicken, and played video games during games on their off-days.

This routine allegedly began late in the 2010 season as the team faded from contention and continued through all of 2011.  Could this lack of support of teammates be any worse?  Of course.  Apparently, these pitchers scaled back their workout routines despite appeals from team physicians and trainers.  Is it not wrong that a guy making $75,000 a year is on a pitcher making $10 million per year to get off his ass, do his exercise and stay fit and healthy. 

As a result, the three gained weight and body fat, and were terrible in September when the Red Sox needed them most, going 2-7 with a 6.45 ERA. Not surprisingly, the Red Sox lost 11 of their last 15 starts.

I’m not surprised at all about Josh Beckett as I remember he pulled this crap when he played for, and won a World Series with, the Florida Marlins back in 2003. I recalled that then manager, Jack McKeon, whom I really liked, saying that Beckett and former Red Sox pitcher Brad Penny would drink in between innings and even in games they started… Yikes. I think the solution McKeon used is the same one that Francona should have used, in hindsight, when he locked the clubhouse during games and when the players had to go to the bathroom, they would be given a bathroom passes.

Can we make matters worse? Sure, Big Papi, David Ortiz who is a free agent after the World Series stated that he wants to play for the New York Yankees in order to get away from the “drama”.

Drama?!? Maybe Big Papi forgot July 30, 2009 when the New York Times reported that he and then-teammate Manny Ramirez were among a group of roughly 100 major league baseball players to test positive for performance-enhancing drugs during 2003 testing. If I remember correctly, just before this in an interview, Ortiz stated that players who tested positive for steroids should be suspended for an entire season. So what did Ortiz do? He held a press conference before a game at Yankee Stadium, no less, and denied ever buying or using steroids. He said he tested positive because of “vitamins and supplements”. Are steroids considered a supplement?

Oddly he was unable to come up with a list of vitamins or supplements that he was taking. Yikes again. Now with this list seized by the government, he is barred from talking about it at all.

Then comes out an “internal source” claiming that the manager, Francona was suffering from constant abuse of prescription medication and is in the process of marital breakdown which also was a distraction.

Best team ever???

Great curse, Boston Herald… Great curse.

Common Sense? Politics explained through the eyes of a 7 year old.

I heard this story yesterday and while I am not sure if it is true or not, I loved it and wanted to share it with all of you.

A 7-year-old girl was standing on the front lawn of her downtown Toronto house with her two very politically active NDP-supporting parents. A neighbour walks over and is chatting with the parents when he looks down to the girl and asks;
Neighbour: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Girl: “I want to be Prime Mnister.”
Neighbour: “WOW. Why?”
Girl: “So that every Canadian will have a home to live in, plenty of food to eat and money to buy whatever they need.”
Parents are beaming right now. They’ve taught their daughter well.
Neighbour: “That’s great! But why wait until you are older. Why not help out now? I have some yard work that needs to be done. Come to my home, help me in the yard and I will give you $50.00. You can then take that money, and we’ll go to the grocery store, and we can use that mney to buy food for the homeless and then we can give the food out to them.”
Girl thinks about it.
Girl then asks: “Why don’t the homeless people just go clean your yard and you can pay them, and they can buy their own food?!?”
The neighbour turned to the parents and said, “Welcome to Conservatism!”

Apparently the neighbours have never spoken again since.

See folks… Kids get it.

Happy 5th Birthday Stewie!

Happy 5th birthday to my son I call “Stewie” here in Urbandaddyville. 

We were so happy when you turned 4 because you were as big as a 4-year-old and no one believed that you were 3.  Now that you are 5 you look like you are 6.  You and your 6-year-old brother share the same the same size shirts and pants, and you’re 4cm shorter than him. 

You wanted a bag of marbles for your birthday and you got it.

You wanted a magician for your birthday (but not Tricky Ricky) and you wanted cupcake decorating at our home but just yesterday you asked us if you could have your party at Active Kids Zone.  Your party is Tuesday.  There are 24 kids coming.  It’s too late to make these changes, and we’re not using AKZ since they refused to refund our money for a camp that your brother was sick for.

You went this afternoon to write your journal.

The worse your brother behaves, the better you do.

You have developed a bond with your baby sister because you can boss her around and she loves it.

You told us school was boring – after 2 days - because all they made you do was colour.

You have not slept through the night or in your own bed for the last 5 months.

You’re awesome!

We love you.  Happy Birthday.

Undecided? Not sure who to vote for in the Ontario Election? You MUST read this!

So the Ontario election is coming up on this Thursday, October 6th, and you, like many I have spoken to are undecided. Whatever should you do?

Let me give you some suggestions / recommendations / my opinion to see if I can help you make a decision.

1. Vote. Regardless of whom you decide to vote for, it’s your democratic right to vote and you should do just that for the billions of people who cannot vote, or who are in countries where they are not allowed to participate in the vote for fear of being punished.

2. Vote Liberal. Are you shocked? Me too. I cannot believe I wrote this. If broken promises, an unclear platform, secretive sex education to grade 1 students, a billion wasted on eHealth, cigarettes for votes and all that is to your liking, then put that “X” for good ‘ol Dalton. If, on the other hand you are holding back on voting for Timmy Hudak because he doesn’t look the part, or you don’t get that warm fuzzy feeling, I leave you with this advice… We know what damage Dalton has done. You don’t know what damage – or good – that the PC’s can do.  We’re still in a recession and conservatives are good to have in power during this time.  See Stephen Harper and Canada.

3. Have NDP Leader over for a BBQ. Of the 3 leaders a poll indicated that most Ontarians would like to have NDP Leader Andrea Horwath over for a BBQ and hang with her. I’m all for that. She seems nice and all, but be carefull what you wish for. I saw a great cartoon explaining socialism, which I will post if I can find it, but there was a poor guy in the street asking some guy for money and the guy responded “SURE!!!” and as he’s doing that he is reaching into the picket of the guy standing behind him – lifting his wallet and grabbing the money needed to give to the poor guy. Am I saying that socialists are thieves? Heck no. I’m saying the rob Peter to pay Paul routine gets tiring after a while. If the NDP we to – heaven forbid – take power of Ontario again – SEE BOB RAE – then all the “Peter’s” will leave the province. No Peter… No money for Paul.

4. I don’t smoke but I do like my cookies. Thank you Liberal MPP Mike Colle for the Dad’s Oatmeal cookie at the Eglinton West station this morning, with your campaign sticker on the back. You are not in my riding, I’m voting PC and you told me last month to vote Liberal so there are “not Conservatives at all three levels of government”. Ummm, good platform.

5. Where exactly was George Smitherman’s donor list? I suspect some of you are looking at this and are ready to dismiss this. It was an issue from the Toronto Mayoral election when now-Mayor Rob Ford disclosed his donor list and former Liberal health cabinet minister Smitherman refused to. Sure 4 months aft the election he had to, but I still do not recall seeing that. So why the concern? As Health Minister, Smitherman was in command of a billion dollars of your and my tax money which was wasted. Did he accept the blame? Nope. Did he blame others… Yup. And he ran away from Provincial politics all the way back to Toronto in hopes of being elected the mayor of Toronto. In doing so, he received donations from citizens like you (not me) and your neighbours, but he also took donations from some pretty suspicious characters. I recall Barbara Hall – former mayor of Toronto and now the Integrity Commissioner in her very non-partisan position was endorsing Smitherman. Something was not right with his campaign and I think he learned all his tricks from Dalton.

6. Thinking more Liberal and less Conservative are you? Here’s something you need to know about the NDP – Liberal unholy alliance. First of all, if the race is close, organized labour (unions) tend to remove support from the NDP and move to the Liberals. Secondly, the last time there was a minority government, the Libs and New Democrats worked together to push through all the Liberals legislation. Above board? NOT.

7. Speaking of organized labour… On Tuesday, October 4th, in Windsor Ontario, Liberal leader McGuinty got yet another boost from Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union boss Ken Lewenza. With polls still pointing to a close finish when voters head to the polls Thursday, the union chief took aim at Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s “defeatist attitude” in opposing government aid for economic development.
I’m sure he meant he didn’t like Hudak’s anti-union stance…

8. My friend, Mike Yen is running for the PC’s in Trinity-Spadina and he reported that a group on non-English speaking residents went to vote for him and asked the volunteers there to assist. They asked what number on the ballot Mike was – He was #8, but these volunteers told the group he was #4. #4 belongs to the NDP candidate in the riding. The volunteers… NDP sympathizers.
That, my friends, is dirty politics and a reason to avoid the NDP.

9. The Liberals vowed to fund IVF, not only because doing so is a kind thing to do, but mainly because doing so would save teh government a ton of money. It’s taken them 5 years to look into it. $30million to save $30million. Dollar for dollar. What is taking so long!!

10.  I almost forgot the HST!   What party increases taxes during a recession???  Right!  The Ontario Liberal Party.  And what did Finance Minister Dwight Duncan have to say about the HST?  He basically said that they brought it in because it should have be done years ago but only they had the balls to do it.  Yikes. The HST was not a good idea. It may never be a good idea. It should not have brought in during a recession, and in BC, where the HST also came in at the same time the HST did in Ontario, well that leader was forced to resign and it’s being removed in 2013.

So to recap:

NO Liberals.

NO NDP.

Yes to Voting

Yes to Premier Hudak.