Novocastrian

Have a look at the Exeter weather radar:

http://weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=WSO

Good day for turbines at GA. I'd leave the office early today if I were you.

dbd33

The OH reports fallen trees and early closing of the museum. It could be an exciting drive.

Novocastrian

Good luck then. Hope to hear from you later.

dbd33

Thanks. It'll be much later. I'm to fetch things on the way.

Novocastrian

It's a dog's life in the sticks.

steve666

Um, don't deal with politics, live in the country.

dbd33

Well I made it, via Costco and the LCBO. The wind is fierce and it's raining slightly. Very many leaves are down so Autumn's glory may have been last week. I had the top down on the car and cold rain slashed into my face. I shivered a little. "My" I thought "I haven't been sailing for yonks" so I phoned and arranged to join a race next week. Volunteer crew are always welcome in September.

Novocastrian

Good that you made it. I hope that last sentence wasn't an invitation to join you, because if it was I may have to leave the country for a while.

dbd33

I'm sure I could arrange for any willing person to get cold, tired and wet. It's exciting, there's a risk of drowning and of poisoning.

Novocastrian

Right. It's the willing person bit which might be tricky. Pity AX is away. He's used to being cold, tired and wet.

Novocastrian

Not like me to say I told you so, , but interesting isn't it how this has turned out? Tory has completely lost any credibility he might once have had and showed that he has absolutely no claim on leadership to boot. What a f*** up.

JAJ

Newfoundland and Labrador did away with segregated schooling about 10 years ago.

dbd33

Also Quebec. So what?

JAJ

So it ought not to be impossible to integrate Ontario schools, if there was a real will to do so.

Novocastrian

You're missing the point. Obviously the idea of getting rid of the Catholic separate school system, funded as it is by the Ontario tax payer, has overwhelming merit.

John Tory, conveniently the leader of the Tory Party here, (I wonder if there's a Liberace in the wings of the Liberal Party?) thought he could garner votes from the Jewish/Islamic/fundie Christian/tin foil hat brigade, who are well enough off and/or frothy enough, to spend $20k a year+ inculcating their offspring in their idiosyncrasities.

This proved to be wrong. Instead, the reasonably sensible idea that in a multicultural society, such as Ontario, the consequence of providing incentives (funding) to splinter nutjobs, is really, really silly, prevails.

Hopefully, the next (Liberal) government will see that 70% of the electorate would prefer to have the Catholic nutjobs merged with regular School Boards too, (thereby saving a great deal of duplication and dollars).

I might contest the next election myself on this point.

Edit: I'm not suggesting that Muslims or Jewish folk are nutjobs, just that if they insist on "faith based" education for their kiddies, then that's their choice. Don't expect us to pay for it. Education is secular. The other stuff is their business.