can't think of a title.

um, so does anyone else feel like Harper got away with one the other day? not just me I hope?

whatever, I'm not going to get in to it. no. what's more important is the fact that I somehow managed to get my photo essay shot. all 108 pictures, exactly.

are they great? no.
are they good? probably not.
will I pass? probably. and really, isn't that what school's all about; teaching you just enough to get that first job, where you really start to learn what you need to know.

now just because most of my photo essay pictures are crap, that doesn't mean I don't know how to hold a camera and take a good picture. as proof, I submit for your approval "Nathan Phillips Square at night."

...and for those of you keeping track, that's now an album on facebook and a blog entry dedicated entirely to the promotion of my ego...err, my picture. yeah, my picture. not my ego. no, never that.

oh, and this one looks way better full size, so maybe click on it to enlarge a little. ignore the noise, I wanted it. if you don't like it then I guess we can't be friends anymore.

briefly...

Dear Mr. Harper

Just 'cause you were elected with more seats in October does not, in fact, mean that the majority of Canadians want you as their Prime Minister. I know that could be hard to grasp, but the fact is that you only had something like 36% of the vote. You know what that means? That means that 74% of Canadians didn't want you to be Prime Minister. The vast majority of Canadians didn't vote for you. Isn't that weird?

Also, Canada is a Parliamentary democracy. Now I will agree with you that it has been the case historically that the party with the most seats in Parliament will form the government. But when you screw up as badly as you did (with a minority government no less!) you should know that it is within the power of the opposition parties to approach the Governor General with a viable alternative to your government. It is not a coup d'etat, as you seem to believe. That would be illegal. This isn't. This is completely legal, and it's happened a few times in the history of this country.

You've proven in the past that you don't care one iota for the regular joe in Canada. While in office you've wanted to advance your own agenda, damn the consequences. Sometimes I wonder if you even like Canada...

I find it a little odd, and very telling, that you tried to eliminate public funding to political parties when you knew full-well that the Liberals (and perhaps the NDP) are horribly in debt after the debacle that was the last Federal election. The fact that your party is swimming in money probably had nothing to do with it...

I don't even want to get in to the ineptitude that was your "economic update." The rest of the world is reeling and you sit back with that laissez-faire attitude. Guess what...that's exactly what caused the huge collapse in the United States that you love so much. Wouldn't it be better to take action now, with a relatively small stimulus, than to sit with your thumb up your ass while fear and doubt wreaks havoc on our country? I don't know, I'm not an economist. But neither are you.