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Rob Snow
Oct 1, 20192 min read
Are we there yet? #ELXN43
A random collection of thoughts on Canada's 43rd general election campaign. Day 21. Are we there yet? That's how I feel about this...
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snowrobl
Sep 26, 20192 min read
The many adventures of PMJT #ELXN43
A random collection of thoughts on Canada's 43rd general election. Day 16. Justin Trudeau is everywhere. He's riding the bus in...
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Rob Snow
Sep 12, 20192 min read
The Gong Show! #ELXN43
A random collection of thoughts on Canada's 43rd general election campaign. Day 2: (pre-debate) The Gong Show was an amateur talent...
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Rob Snow
Sep 11, 20192 min read
Greetings Earthlings! It's #ELXN43!
Behold! A random collection of thoughts on Canada's 43rd general election campaign. Day 1: Greetings Earthlings! "First and foremost we...
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Rob Snow
Apr 28, 20191 min read
A prayer for the Capital
Hey God, I thought I'd check in. Hopes and prayers and all that stuff. I'm sure you've noticed, it's all the rage, but I get it. You've...
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Rob Snow
Jan 6, 20192 min read
The federal election in a nutshell: Battleground Ontario
It's prediction season. This is mine: Voters in Ontario will decide the 2019 federal election. There are 338 ridings up for grabs this...
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Rob Snow
Oct 10, 20183 min read
Scheer or Trudeau on carbon tax - authentic VS make believe
The Prime Minister likes to dress up as Superman. Andrew Scheer doesn't play dress up at all. Whatever the wardrobe, on carbon taxes...
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Rob Snow
Sep 19, 20182 min read
Making sausage in Alta Vista
If you don't want to know how the sausage is made, stay out of the kitchen. We had a peek inside the meat grinder of Ottawa's election...
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Rob Snow
Sep 15, 20182 min read
The size of Toronto's council: who cares?
I don't suffer from DDS. Doug Derangement Syndrome is epidemic, with new cases reported every day from The Beaches to Casa Loma. Toronto....
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Rob Snow
Sep 9, 20183 min read
The fall news agenda
Tomorrow I'll climb behind the microphone for the first time in a month. Summer vacation is over, the air is crisp and the news agenda...
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Rob Snow
Jun 26, 20182 min read
Two (other) Solitudes
They're demolishing the high school. The hospital is next to go in this little corner of Canadian solitude. My father went to that high...
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Rob Snow
Jun 13, 20182 min read
The new 2 bedroom poverty indicator
Pop quiz. Think back to your younger, poorer days. Could you have afforded a two-bedroom apartment when you were working for the minimum...
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Rob Snow
Jun 9, 20182 min read
Pertaining to recent tragic events
We should refrain from attempts to reconcile. In the last week, two supreme talents left us. A third revealed he is near the end. Kate...
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Rob Snow
Jun 8, 20182 min read
The Ghost of McGuinty
Mike Harris and Bob Rae. Their names came up so often during the Ontario election campaign, you'd think they were running for office....
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Rob Snow
May 16, 20182 min read
OHIP+ *some conditions apply
OHIP+. It's one of the signature programs of the Wynne government. Behind the curtain, doctors are grumbling. OHIP+ is Ontario's child...
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Rob Snow
May 15, 20182 min read
About the minimum wage...the skeptics are winning
Score one for the skeptics. Those who questioned the wisdom of hiking the minimum wage so much, so fast are winning the debate, so far....
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Rob Snow
May 9, 20183 min read
Hydro bills and sleepless nights
Premier Wynne is losing sleep. Her insomnia was caused by a question put to her by Doug Ford in this week's debate. "When did you lose...
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Rob Snow
May 1, 20182 min read
Ontario's assault on the truth
Truth is the first casualty of war. In Ontario politics, it's an assault on all fronts. PC leader, Doug Ford had his first misfire of the...
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Rob Snow
Apr 25, 20183 min read
Hydro: Ontario's Troubled Asset
People are troubled by their hydro bill. With an election looming, the government will spare no expense to make the problem go away. On...
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Rob Snow
Apr 18, 20182 min read
Learn to love the roundabout
I froze. I don't know what came over me. Panic! I couldn't move. I tried to move. Kept on trying. Over and over again. But it was futile....
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