Mike Powell Fanclub

Happy February! It feels like January just began, and here we are 1/12th of the way through the calendar year. Adam and I also realized last week that in the last 6 weeks we have both been on the show exactly once, which is kinda crazy. But we’ll both be around tomorrow: 7am to 9am on 93.1FM in Ottawa, www.ckcufm.com for everyone else.

I had the opportunity to speak with Andrew Vincent about his new album, Rotten Pear, last week. We’ll play that at about 8:30.

This past week saw the end of two things Ottawans have been talking about since december: the transit strike and the coalition. The Liberals will support the budget (with “amendments” to put the tories on “probation”); the union and city agreed to binding arbitration hours before it was clear that the Federal government was to force them into that position.

Other reading: the budget! ATV trails? Yes! Genome? No! Andre Cornellier saw his shadow yesterday, but we are still looking at 6 weeks of reduced bus service, especially in the suburbs.

Smoot-Hawley redux: “buy american” provisions in stimulus bill,

York legislated back to work.

No O Canada in a New Brunswick school. At least for a while.

Apparently downtown residents pay more in property taxes than they get back in services. That’s okay, suburbanites: you can cut us a cheque for the difference.

Tories tackling issues that matter to all Canadians: Warren Kinsella sometimes speaks without thinking.

Dartmouth drugstore criticized for keeping “black” hair accessories under lock.

No “No God” on HRM busses.

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