“The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. … We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto,” Newt Gingrich said to cheers from the crowd of more than 100.
So the Junos are sometime on Sunday. They are supposed to air on CTV anywhere between about 7pm to 2am. At the rate the network has been back peddling this week you should just throw out your TV guide, grab some Doritos® and tune to CTV at oh starting around 1pm on Sunday and take a wild guess as to when the show might start in your area.
In case CTV just kills the show all together between now and then, well then you’re out of luck. In other words, you’ll know how a Francophone feels on Juno night.
So here are my predictions…
› Ben Mulroney will annoy the hell out of all of us.
› Pam Anderson will protest something (while Ben Mulroney tries to grope her on the red carpet again).
› Nelly Furtado will clean up.
› More people in Saskatchewan will be watching the World Men’s Curling Championships on TSN (Go Howard!)
Juno Fan Choice Award (Presented by Doritos®)
( )Gregory Charles
( )Michael Bublé
(X)Nelly Furtado
( )Nickelback
( )Sarah McLachlanSingle Of The Year
( )Billy Talent, “Devil in a Midnight Mass”
( )Jim Cuddy, “Pull Me Through”
(X)Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland, “Promiscuous”
( )k-os, “Sunday Morning”
( )Chantal Kreviazuk, “All I Can Do”International Album Of The Year
WHY?!?!?!?!?!Album Of The Year
( )Billy Talent, Billy Talent II
( )Gregory Charles, I Think of You
(X)Nelly Furtado, Loose
( )Hedley, Hedley
( )Three Days Grace, One-XArtist Of The Year
( )Diana Krall
( )Gregory Charles
( )Loreena McKennitt
(X)Nelly Furtado
( )Pierre LapointeGroup Of The Year
( )Alexisonfire
(X)Billy Talent
( )Hedley
( )Three Days Grace
( )The Tragically Hip
(X)The Nelly Furtado BandNew Artist Of The Year
( )Eva Avila
( )Melissa O’Neil
(X)Neverending White Lights
( )Tomi Swick
( )Patrick WatsonTake a nap during the next couple of awards.
Country Recording Of The Year
( )Aaron Pritchett, Big Wheel
(X)Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Love & Negotiation
( )Doc Walker, Doc Walker
( )Emerson Drive, Countrified
( )George Canyon, Somebody Wrote LoveMusic Video Of The Year
More Bev Oda and Ben at A BCer in TorontoPop Album Of The Year
( )Nelly Furtado, Loose
(X - Just for fun!)k-os, Atlantis: Hymns for Disco
( )Chantal Kreviazuk, Ghost Stories
( )Sarah McLachlan, Wintersong
( )Tomi Swick, Stalled Out in the DoorwayRock Album Of The Year
(X)Billy Talent, Billy Talent II
( )Mobile, Tomorrow Starts Today
( )Sam Roberts, Chemical City
( )Sloan, Never Hear the End of It
( )The Tragically Hip, World Container
The rest? Well, good luck to all the Canadian talent.
Almost 20 years ago the Junos had to be canceled and today we have people fighting tooth and nail over the start time of the show. We’ve come a long way, eh?
A few weeks ago I asked if anyone involved with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities had any qualms with FCM President Gloria Kovach.
She ran to seek a federal Conservative nomination for the oh-so-mysterious when-to-be-announced federal election while sitting as the president of the FCM, a “nonpartisan organization” which lobbies the federal government for billions of dollars every year.
The veteran Guelph city councillor is now without her title as FCM President.
After losing her flashy nomination race, Kovach was voted out by her FCM peers with two months remaining in her term as president.
Kovach says she’s seeking legal action and … is blaming Liberal Leader Stephane Dion!!!
And another thing…
She said she took an unpaid leave of absence from her nursing job to take on the FCM presidency, which has no salary.
Yet on her website bio (which has since been removed) it claimed Kovach left her nursing job when she became a city councillor (which was in 1991), citing privacy and conflict of interest concerns. She became the FCM President 14 years later in Decmember 2005!
Jack Layton is a former FCM President but never sought federal office or a federal nomination during his tenure at the top.
Winnipeg’s Gord Steeves is now the FCM President. He’s a former Liberal candidate. Note the emphasis on former … as in 11 years ago.
Basically, I’m a lonely government backbencher who’s not getting enough attention or responsibilities so I’m going to leave my party to join a party that’s lead by a guy who probably gets less attention than a government back bencher.
Smart move, Timmy!
At least his legacy of crap is.
Disgraced former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli is about to find his life will soon be getting a lot more complicated.
1. Comes news that Peter MacKay might be regretting calling ANYONE a dog. After all, this canine proved he can save a life.
2. Closer to home - Ottawa Senators Coach Bryan Murray’s grand-nephew, a four-foot-nine, 110-pound, eight-year-old from Shawville, Quebec has been banned from playing in a regional tournament in West Quebec. Too much of a scrapper? No. Too old? Nope. Too many suspensions? Wrong again.
Too big? According to hockey organizers, Yes!
3. CTV got a brain! I was going to come home and rant about the network’s stupid, stupid, stupid decision to tape delay this year’s Juno’s broadcast. So now CTV won’t play at 10pm on a Sunday night in Ontario and Quebec or 11pm in the Maritimes or people who live across the street from this year’s show in Saskatoon won’t have to wait TWO HOURS TAPE DELAY to watch the show on TV. Whoever realized the original bad move, thank you!
Should we really be shocked by CTV’s brilliance? After all, this is the same organization that brought us this guy:
“Quick! Someone get me out of this nation!”
Best Part of the Night: CBC’s “Florida moment” declaring Charest a loser in his own riding. The reporter then said something like “Charest’s people seem desperate — telling us it’s still too close to call.” Turns out they were right. Oooops.
It’s a beautiful thing, if it weren’t so (allegedly) criminal.
Either way, one, possibly even two, of these three Conservatives is not telling the truth and could have to face the law.
You’ve probably all read the accusations that are flying around the media and blogosphere but it’s a rumour and accusation that’s been floating around Ottawa since well before most votes were cast for the Ottawa municipal election.
Back in early November 2006 readers of this blog and the Ottawa Sun read about some fishy allegations. Terry Kilrea told the Ottawa Sun,
“Well, I wouldn’t say he offered me a spot on the parole board. But he certainly hinted that he could deliver on something like that.”
It was an anonymous call to an Ottawa Sun reporter which put the wheels in motion on a story which just won’t go away.
There was and really still is little evidence. It was and still seems to be his word versus his word.
Kilrea dropped out. O’Brien won.
A few months later Terry Kilrea’s tune changed. He went public with a shocking tale of alleged bribery.
Today the scope of the story shifts. Another Conservative, former MP John Reynolds, is named in the tale and suddenly the country turns it’s attention to Ottawa and collectively asks, “Is Ottawa’s mayor a Lex Luther double?”, “Who’s telling the truth in this messy story?”
Kilrea passed a polygraph test and insists now that Mayor Larry O’Brien was pulling strings to get him on the National Parole Board. The polygraph test won’t hold up in court.
But Larry, who badly, badly, badly danced around the accusations earlier this year, I think it’d be fun to see you hook yourself up to the Maury Povich machine (and I don’t mean the paternity test either).
Something tells me Larry has nothing to worry about. After all, remember he was on a boat all summer? Tipsy! He had no time for bribes and other nonsense.
“I fell asleep on my boat in July drinking a beer and when I woke up I was the mayor of Ottawa.”-Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien - Ottawa Citizen.
If this thing EVER went to court. I think Larry should use that line… alot! Please!!!
I’ve removed my post from last night regarding CTV’s story on the new poll that was conducted. The news organization has since changed the story to now say the poll was conducted March 20th and 21st and that Strategic Counsel was able to turn around the results within 24 hours - which is pretty quick stuff.
If you read my post last night you would seen how CTV originally reported that Strategic Counsel conducted the poll between March 10th - 13th, making it completely inaccurate as a “post budget poll.”
The “typo” or oversight has since been corrected.
She’ll make a great First Lady.
So, apparently I missed the big Ottawa Citizen front page spread a couple of weeks ago about the newest contraption aimed at making the lives of Tim Hortons’ addicts better.
Anyways, my friend Shawn didn’t miss the article and on a recent road trip north we had to make a stop at Lee Valley Tools.
The reason? A plastic key chain accessory worth less than $2.
It’s purpose? To help you roll up the rim on those Tim Hortons to-go cups (also works for those imitation campaigns run by those imitation coffee shops!)
So I picked up a couple of the devices. Shawn picked up a boat load.
Now, it’s sad that our society has come to this – having to invent things like the Rimroller just to make our lives that much easier. But, I can honestly say that the novelty items work.
How many times have you been driving down the highway, just chugging back that double-double with hopes of getting to that plasma TV or Pontiac Aztec (Oh, those were the days!) under the rim, but you quickly realize that you can’t finish the last sip of potent coffee at the bottom.
It’s too bloody cold to roll down the window and throw the leftover out the window. Now you’re trying to roll up the rim while using your knees to drive and suddenly the idiot in front cuts you off and you have coffee on your pants, a half ripped/chewed up and soggy Timmy’s cup in your hand and you’re about to cream the car in front of you. “Please Play Again” has never looked so sour.
Now you easily just yank the damn lip up and find out your loser in half the time and mess… AND you can even keep your keys on the Rimroller.
Our only complaint was that the contraption would be better as a multi purpose key chain. A Rimroller key chain with an LED light or bottle opener - oh no, wait, never mind, bad idea.
Sorry for the profane language. Someone is a poor loser.
Hey George Bush — SHUT UP!
The most conservative newspaper in town gives the Conservative’s second budget a rather dismal review!
With headlines like these from individual stories,
“The Conservative budget that promised something for everyone all but excludes the poorest of the poor.There’s also little relief for single taxpayers or childless couples.”
Can’t Catch a Break: While the Tories take care of their crowd, the rest of us are subjected to Grit-like overtaxation
“One again, the Conservatives are taking care of the vote they would like to call their own, targeting personal tax breaks at families with school-age children, the dominant demographic in coveted suburban ridings.Sadly, politics has once again trumped prudence.”
Must be Kidding: $310 benefit ‘not really very much,’ working mom says
“MacLeod says the government needs to give parents who put their kids in private schools a break.Maybe next year. Call it politics or the right thing to do, the Conservative government has once again targeted certain segments of the population for tax savings.”
Generous Jim forgot whose money it was
They promised to steer the ship differently than the Liberal crew had before them and leave more tax dollars in our pockets.But somewhere between the 2005 campaign and yesterday, Flaherty and Prime Minister Stephen Harper lost the compass.
How else can they explain to the majority of Canadians why they dashed expectations for broad-based tax relief?
Though he doesn’t work for Sun Media, rather CanWest’s Ottawa Citizen, Randall Denley explains how Harper and Flaherty missed their chance to actually do something for Canadian cities.
Recognize Denley’s name? Right, he’s the Citizen columnist who Blogging Tories just looooove to quote when it comes to Stephane Dion. While here are some new Denley quotes,
“Instead of shouldering the financial burden of cities, the federal government has chosen to give more money to the provinces, whose political leaders are far more accomplished whiners than their municipal counterparts. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has also shown financial favour to middle-class families, since they are the core group this budget targets. One group whines, the other votes. They both win.Too bad for cities. They had dreams of a national transit program that would deliver.”
and
“The federal government’s problem is that much of what it does is irrelevant to the everyday lives of Canadians. Flaherty and Harper missed a chance to change that Monday.”
For those of you who dismiss my criticism over the lack of funding for municipalities in Monday’s budget, Denley sums it up quite nicely,
Cities are on the provinces’ list, not the national government’s. Flaherty suggested yesterday that was the case, but it hasn’t stopped the feds from dumping millions of dollars on a chosen city when the government sees fit. Apparently that’s preferable to orderly, intelligent decision-making.Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent decision to favour Toronto with $962 million for transit was a classic case in point.
