Weekend Happenings in the TDot.

It's been a busy day at the office so far--my Outlook decided to crash and the beginning of the month means lots of invoices and paperwork. So while the arts/politics scene seems far more interesting at the beginning of this week than it did at the end of last, it seems I won't be blogging much today. But there are a few things not to be passed up:


I liked the above picture from BlogTO, which accompanied this article about the pro-Coalition rally in Toronto this weekend. It was pretty big, estimated to be between 2-3,000 people. Which is actually kind of pathetic when you consider the actual population of Toronto...but the Conservative rally at Queen's Park only drew about 500, so I suppose by comparison...There are more pictures on BlogTO, check it out.

The rallies were also covered by much of the mainstream press and the whole issue seems to be fairly divisive. Apparently the Conservative rallies outside the GTA were huge. Harper is getting far more support everywhere else, or so it would seem. And I am still too new to the current Canadian political scene, having spent the better part of the last fourteen years or so in the US, to claim to be anything close to an expert--which perhaps makes me like any other 'ordinary' Canadian...except I care about the arts...it really is all very confusing. Whatever the case may be, I cannot see how proroguing Parliament, which means the Government is at a standstill on resolving the issue of our ever-tanking economy, possibly solves anything. Perhaps it just postpones the inevitable, whatever that may be. But this is more politics than arts...or is there a difference? Should there be one?

I'll go ponder that while I deal with some invoices.