Local riding on Green leader's radar: Elizabeth May might run in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound: Part Two

Yes the previous thread seemed to get off track from the issue of where Elizabeth May might or might not run onto the subject of wind energy.

As to the main subject of Elizabeth May, I would say that it will be harder for her to win in rural Ontario compared to a more urban riding.  It also doesn't really make sense to run somewhere where you don't have any connections and when you have gone to the trouble of establishing a base in another riding.

There is also the fact that Elizabeth May said in October that she would only run in a) Central Nova in a general election or b) a by-election.

You're probably right.

If Elizabeth May doesn't run in the vacant riding next door, she will lose what little credibility she has left.

Why has this thread moved from Federal Politics Canada to  Central Ontario? Its still federal politics and obviously there are ridings from Coast to Coast that the GP leader can run in.  I don't see how blueskying about a riding in Ontario would suggest that this is a Central Canada only topic.

I never even noticed what forum it was in actually. But isn't central Canada, all of Canada anyway? ;)

IS Grey Bruce where the Ground hog is???

He's an imposter. Shubenacadie Sam is the real thing. Riding of King-Hants.

But I'll readily concede that there are many more groundhogs in any non-urban Southern Ontario riding than there are elsewhere.

If Elizabeth May can figure out how to get them on the electors list, and down to an advance poll, she's a weiner.

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Webgear wrote:

BA, I would like to offer my services for the Grey-Bruce Liberation Army (GBLA).

I will follow you any where.

Give us liberty or give us death.

 

I also support your proposal of delivering coyotes and other large animals in to the GTA city limits.

 

If we called it the Bruce Grey whatever

It could become known as the Bee Gees!

Some time I will have to go on my rant about the cottager who was being bothered by raccoons so live trapped them.  One morning while getting up early to walk down to our rented farm and bring home a load of hay I discovered her releasing them at the road just a few metres from our lane.  She explained to me that it seemed like no one lived around there.  It gets worse from there.

I think it's fair to say that what makes Elizabeth May tick is attention.  Of course, one can fairly say that about any politician.  But May seems a tad pathological at times.

The groundhog, or marmot, is a frequent dweller in urban areas.  I saw one yesterday feeding along Cheapside street here in London.   I have a dusty memory about First Nations folktales that involve the Trickster being forever beholden to the groundhog because that's all he could find to eat when he first came to the area we know as Grey Bruce. 

The farm fences in Ontario used to have the occasional dead groundhog draped over it.  Hunters used to shoot them, and leave them on the fence to show the farmer that they'd cleared a pasture of the wicked beastie, whose burrows were said to break the legs of cows.

I always thought it a dubious idea, that cows stepped in groundhog burrows and broke legs.

On the other hand, I always give groundhogs a wide berth. Never underestimate their wood throwing abilities. How much wood?  Hard to say.  Maybe none if they can't chuck wood at all.

Best to play it safe.

Meanwhile, a coyote has been spotted around Spettigue's pond here in London, where Rebecca West and I went for a walk last week.  I did see some canine prints of the right size, but they looked to me like domesticated dog, not coyote.  The back pads of a coyote leave a different shape than that of domestic dogs.  However, I did see lots of scatological evidence, that is, canine poo that was shot through with hair. 

Indicative, I think of your coyote urban invasion plans, if you can believe that shit.

It's unclear from the article just what they are pointing to as the cause of health concerns.  Is it the turbines, or unburried power lines?  Both?

I know there was some controversy regarding the health of people living close to high tension lines, but I think that was debunked, and there's no discernable link between adverse health and hydro lines.

As I laid out before, I'm inclined to lend creedence to health concerns due to low frequency sound.  But, these things are measurable and testable.   I'm sure studies have been done.  My search skills aren't very good, but I'll give it a shot.  There must be data somewhere.