Good Idea!

I am launching a campaign to have the G20 moved to a cruise ship so that we can save the $1 billion of security costs and our leaders can float around the oil slick as they dine on endangered seafood. They might even want to pop into a Haitian refugee camp or visit some Jamaican drug lords in between cocktails.

SEND HARPER A MESSAGE! Stephen Harper: HarpeS@parl.gc.ca

Darlene

Big Band, Rambunctious, and more!

Tuesday, May 25, 8-10pm, The Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble at Arnold's Sports Bar, 485 Morden Road in Oakville, http://www.arnoldssportsbar.ca/.

And immediately following: Rambunctious at The Painted Lady, 218 Ossington Avenue, just south of Dundas, http://thepaintedlady.ca/, starting at 11 pm.

Also coming up:

Sunday, June 6, 11:30 am, The Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble at the Streetsville Bread & Honey Festival, http://www.breadandhoney.com/.

Saturday, June 19, 5-7 pm, The Big Trouble Band at Mitzi's Sister, 1554 Queen Street West, http://www.mitzis.ca/sister.html.

Sunday, June 20, 8-11 pm, Gordon's Acoustic Living Room at The Free Times Café, 320 College Street http://www.freetimescafe.com/. Halfway through Year Seven!

Check out Rambunctious on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/rmbnxs.

John Cleese on proportional representation

Olden but golden!

Rambunctious on College Street

One of four videos of Rambunctious playing on College Street in front of Soundscapes Records posted independently on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcANQbeLzVc&NR=1

Scoff 'n' Scuff Again, May 1, St. Christopher House

Been there, done that. Gonna do it again.

It's worth the drive to Oakville!

If you haven't yet seen and heard The Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble live at Arnold's Sports Bar, well it's about time you did.





Eighteen musicians! Five bucks! 8-10 pm

www.arnoldssportsbar.ca
485 Morden Road
Oakville, ON L6K 3W6
(905) 844-2613

Democracy Imperilled

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/our-inability-to-elect-a-majority-government-imperils-democracy/article1545122/

It is the current voting system that keeps giving the Bloc Québécois two-thirds of the seats in Québec with one-third of the votes. The same system gives the NDP one seat out of ten, although they receive one out of five votes. This is because the Bloc's votes are geographically concentrated, while the NDP's are spread out across the country.

Under the current voting system, whether your vote counts or not depends on where you vote and how you vote.

Proportional voting systems, by definition, make every vote count. This is the answer to our democratic deficit, and anything less is not.