I couldn't find my tools; are they under the street?,

What's the story here? Three weeks after paving the street someone has dug it up again. Haven't phoned the Town yard to find out the real reason but I'm sure we can come up with lots of speculation: "I had to look for my tools, I couldn't find them after the Havelock St job!"
Seriously though this has to be a major problem for somebody. The street will never be the same, and only after three weeks.

Hamilton Twp pols are POd and they deserve to look beyond that. In fact if any of them had a semblance of political sense they would be scurrying into amalgamation talks as soon as possible. But that would mean that these little gatekeepers would have to give up their fiefdoms. The sooner they realise that you can't be a rural Twp and rely mainly on the urbans for the running costs. the better. If the residents demand to be left alone on their rural manors and demand urban services without any base to a working economy then the governing structure has to change. Despite Cllr Marston's whine about "amalgamation through the back door" it is going to happen. But realistic change will not happen until Pat McCourt becomes Mayor. Growth is not going to come to places that cannot provide jobs. Lower taxes can only be achieved by expanding the tax base, you don't do that with horse farms and weekend hideaways so if Ham Twp wants in on the action there is only one word - amalgamation!

It looks as though the traditionalists lost and the folks pushing for transparency won. This little ad has caused great consternation among the local Libs as they debated the merits of placing it.
Some wanted to demonstrate openness and a new way of doing business and others, mainly the incumbents, took the position that the ad laid them prone to attack by pin-headed fools who would say, "Those guys couldn't find a candidate and they had to advertise for one!". Well I can assure them, the pinheads from the right, that the Libs, because they smell victory by about 1100 votes, have all kinds of people are coming out of the woodwork - sniffing a winner. And, I'll bet the bank on the fact that the candidate doesn't come out of a newspaper ad.


Holy Crap we're getting older, a video of that refrain here on the video page