In other news, I’m contemplating what to carve into my pumpkin this year and keeping an eye on the TV schedule for horror movies. It’s an exciting life I lead.

The other night, there was this made-for-TV horror movie on City that I had never seen before and I decided to watch it. As soon as I saw Margot Kidder, I knew it would be fantastic. Anyway, it was about this emotionally damaged woman, Michelle, who moves to a new neighbourhood after someone breaks into her house and steals her stereo. She’s all upset and vulnerable about it because she tried to shoot the stereo theif and she couldn’t and he knew it and taunted her and the stereo was REALLY important to her and also she can’t cope with the failure of not having the strength to shoot a man. So she moves to this new house (to get over the pain of losing her stereo) only to be stalked by her landlord’s son!

So she called her landlord and she was like, GET YOUR CREEPY SON UNDER CONTROL OR ELSE, K THNX. And the landlord was like OKAY, PLS DON’T TELL AUTHORITIES HE’S ALL I HAVE. But then she saw the creepy son stalk-watching her AGAIN, so she was all pissed because she was like I’M NOT LOSING ANOTHER STEREO TO ANOTHER STALKER and called the landlord and was like I SAW YOUR SON AGAIN, I’M CALLIN THE COPS! And the landlord was like WELL THEY CAN’T DO ANYTHING BECAUSE MY SON JUST HUNG HIMSELF, HE IS DEAD. WAY TO BE SENSITIVE. And she was like WHOOPS, MY BAD! SRY! And I was like NO MICHELLE, IT IS ACTUALLY THE LANDLORD’S SON YOU ARE TALKING TO NOT THE LANDLORD! HE KILLED HIS FATHER AND IS DISGUISING HIS VOICE!!

And I was right.

So the landlord’s crazy-but-alive son was all like, making plans for him and Michelle to get married and stuff but then he found out marriages based on psychotic fantasties have a 73% chance of fail and he took it pretty hard and he was just like I WILL KILLS YOU TO SPARE MYSELF OUR INEVITABLE DIVORCE! But he didn’t get to kill her because just at the right moment, Michelle found the strength inside of herself to shoot a man and she was like THIS IS FOR MY STEREO POW POW! And then she got together with her hot detective boyfriend who conveniently had a detective conference where he and his buddies all read from Sherlock Holmes and contemplated their noble profession on the exact same day the final confrontation went down, otherwise he totes would have been there to save her, naturally.

It was AWESOME.

But tired. Which might have something to do with posting this at 4 am, I do not really know. I’m just hazarding a guess there. It’s probably wrong.

It’s getting to be flannel pajama weather round these parts and flannel pjs, as we all know, are like wearing a bed to bed. What is not to love about that, I ask you. Bring on the falling leaves! And then the snow! And then bring back summer please.

So last week, I sent a letter to the editor of the local paper about the upcoming referendum, urging people to inform themselves and vote, and today it was right there on page two (and three!). Yay. It was pretty sexy as far as letters to the editors go and they’re generally REALLY sexy, so you can imagine how pleased I am about this. I signed it Courtney Canuck except not really, but you can all call me that from now on, if you want.

And I think you do.




… And that’s all I gots. Ah, blogs.

If you’re a citizen of Ontario and you don’t already know about the upcoming referendum on electoral reform, EDUCATE YOURSELF NOW. In the October election, there will be two ballots. The usual vote for your candidate and a vote for an electoral system. This is what the ballot will say:

Which electoral system should Ontario use to elect members to the provincial legislature?

o The existing electoral system (First-Past-the-Post)

o The alternative electoral system proposed by the Citizens’ Assembly (Mixed Member Proportional)

For those not inspired enough to click the links, here’s a quick summary on our current electoral system (FPTP) and the proposed (MMP).

Right now, Ontario has a one vote system, which means when I vote for my party’s representative in my riding, that vote also goes to the provincial party leader. If the provincial party leader wins the most seats, they generally go on to form a government. But they don’t have to have the majority of votes to win. Also, what if I love the provincial party leader but I loathe the party’s representative in my riding? Or what if I loathe the provincial party leader but I love party’s representative in my riding? I don’t like voting for a candidate I’m not thrilled about simply to keep the opposition out. And because the FPTP system often narrows the field to the two predicted leading parties, I feel like a vote outside of the red and blue spectrum will essentially be wasted, which is also not cool.

Man, smell those choices! Yum!

But with the proposed new electoral system, Mixed Member Proportional (which combines First-Past-the-Post and Proportional Representation), I will have two votes. Two! One for my local representative and one for a political party. Do you know what that means? It means that, in future elections, you and I can affect change on two separate levels: locally and provincially, which is more than we’re able to do now. It means more Canadians have a better chance of actually being represented by a government that’s supposed to be representing them anyway. It also gives us a better foundation than the one we’ve got for the coming generations to have and build upon.

How awesome is that?

Pretty damn awesome.

Your Big Decision.ca is the impartial website with all the information you need about the referendum if you don’t already have it. There you can learn about the old system and the new system and watch videos that can explain this whole thing a whole lot better than I did. Please spread the word and when the time comes: VOTE.

Vote vote vote vote vote.

It’s the most important thing you can do.

Links:
yourbigdecision.ca
citizen’s assembly

edit
Vote for MMP is a really helpful and informative site on the pro-side. It’s incredibly easy to navigate, is direct and straightforward and I was able to use their info to help further explain the positives of Mixed Member Proportional to people who were interested. I suggest everyone check it out!
(Thanks, Mark, for the heads-up!)

Ha ha ha!

Belinda Stronach is leaving politics. I’m pretty bummed out about this because I really enjoyed telling people she was Stronach enough to be my Prime Minister and now she is denying herself the chance to run the country and, more importantly, me the chance to make a small fortune off that slogan. Even though I’m pretty sure I picked it up from someone cleverer than me. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is who makes and profits off the t-shirts first.

Anyway, thanks a lot, Belinda.

In all seriousness, I don’t blame her for stepping down. She had to suffer through Peter MacKay’s moping after their break-up because oh my God, she had policital convictions–ps: tackiest photo-op EVER, Peter–never mind the truly heinous name calling she endured later on. Not cool, Tories. Not cool at all. See, this is why I never vote for you.

Well, that and your con$ervative value$.