I'm about to head out to look at a house at Dundas West and Bloor (not far from the old High Park apartment that Rachel and I had in 2004)… It's a three bedroom place with a couple of office rooms, and a finished basement and garage, so it has potential. I'll be making my decision on Wednesday I hope. The studio space (or one like it) is what I'd like I think, but it's more expensive so I have to decide whether I can justify the cost.
After that Saira and I are meeting up with Marty, Badur, Blair, Phil, Jordan, Tom, Angela, Jana and perhaps others at Ciro's (a restaurant owned by a friend of Saira and Michael's that carries about a hundred and fifty different kinds of beer imports). I've been working on a BME update that I'll post tomorrow, and Phil and I will certainly have one for the each of the next few days with any luck (and I'm managing to keep ModBlog updated as well).
Tomorrow is the election of course (I hope every Canadian, well the NDP ones especially, is going out and voting), which means tomorrow night is election party. For those of you who are unhappy with the Liberal party, I hope you strongly consider whether you really want to swing to the right rather than to the left. I understand that if you're not very well informed a number of policies that the Conservatives have proposed (the reduction in GST, the childcare benefit, etc.) might look good at first, but they're short-sighted and will cost you far more than you'll get back.
Most of all I want Canadians to look at America and really understand how quickly things changed when Bush was elected (and not just because of 9/11)… It only takes a very short period of time for a neo-con agenda to trash a country's economy and civil rights. I find it quite terrifying that there is a very good chance that as of tomorrow, we could have a government elected that's run by folks whose background is corporate and Republican (as in the USA) lobbying. I'd hate to see Canada scrap its civil rights advances, give its oil rights away to US corporations, close up its borders and kick out immigrants, and all the other things that have been promised if the polls are accurate.
This politics of fear and hatred that dominates the world today is a very bad thing.
Sorry if there are typos in this entry, it was posted in haste.
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