A busy weekend for car and machinery enthusiasts
This weekend has two events for local 'buffs'. One is when Antique and Classic Car Club of Canada holds its annual Concours d’Elegance at the Port Hope fairgrounds on Saturday. The other is a Farm and Agricultural Show put on by the Hope Agricultural Heritage Club website here. This show will be held at the Burnham farm on Hwy #2 just West of Canadian Tire. The tractor on the left is the main raffle prize - pay yer money and drive it home (or take the cash).
The Port Hope Classic car show is different in two respects from the car show featured a month ago in these pages: this time there will be judging. Cars will be judged from a strict list of criteria and a show winner will be announced. Also for Port Hope to score such a big show means congratulations for the organisors, it was held in Brampton last year. Having just checked the website of the ACCCC there is also an event in Port Hope on the Sunday setting up a double-header for buffs - Wow. Sunday will see the "Prewar Antique Car Tour" starting in Port Hope a description taken from the tour
flyer says it all: "This is a driving tour (about 2 hours) and will feature one tour for the older, slower vehicles (~50 miles) and a second one for the newer, more speedier cars (~70 miles), with everyone coming together for a BBQ lunch."
A man with more money than brains still seems determined to play with the big boys and disregards the rules. Jim Balsillie, of RIM fame, is trying to buy an NHL team and move it to Southern Ontario. He tried it three years ago in Pittsburgh, he tried it in Nashville last year and is now trying to buy the Phoenix team. This time, in Phoenix, he has a judge that has allowed him to bid on the assets of the team in a bankruptcy court. The NHL Board of Governers has blackballed him and even called his ethics into question so the question of the day is simple - what happens when Jimbo buys a team and then the NHL won't let him play in the league?
The Port Hope Classic car show is different in two respects from the car show featured a month ago in these pages: this time there will be judging. Cars will be judged from a strict list of criteria and a show winner will be announced. Also for Port Hope to score such a big show means congratulations for the organisors, it was held in Brampton last year. Having just checked the website of the ACCCC there is also an event in Port Hope on the Sunday setting up a double-header for buffs - Wow. Sunday will see the "Prewar Antique Car Tour" starting in Port Hope a description taken from the tour
flyer says it all: "This is a driving tour (about 2 hours) and will feature one tour for the older, slower vehicles (~50 miles) and a second one for the newer, more speedier cars (~70 miles), with everyone coming together for a BBQ lunch."A man with more money than brains still seems determined to play with the big boys and disregards the rules. Jim Balsillie, of RIM fame, is trying to buy an NHL team and move it to Southern Ontario. He tried it three years ago in Pittsburgh, he tried it in Nashville last year and is now trying to buy the Phoenix team. This time, in Phoenix, he has a judge that has allowed him to bid on the assets of the team in a bankruptcy court. The NHL Board of Governers has blackballed him and even called his ethics into question so the question of the day is simple - what happens when Jimbo buys a team and then the NHL won't let him play in the league?
PS anybody know of the website for Christine Herrington? E-mail it in
7 comments:
What do you expect Ben - he's a hockey fan. Personally, I enjoy every time he makes the NHL potentates squirm. According to the news today, his bid is on the table, just like the other pseudo-bids. I want to see Bettman and JB smiling in a picture together when they drop the first puck in Hamilton.
On another, ( and possibly more important ), subject, what do you think of his 11th hour foray into the Nortel sale ?
Typically Jimbo approached the Nortel sale as he did the Phoenix situation - he tried to make up the rules. The Nortel auction laid out the rules and he didn't want to abide by certain confidentiality and patent provisions so he didn't bid and cried like a baby when the trustee told him to do so.
He may not be playing by the " accepted " rules, but he does raise points about foreign ownership that the Conservative government has been prodded to address, finally. This is a good thing , right Ben ?
Anon. suggests that Jimbo's actions have prodded the government "to address" foreign ownership.
Much has been said, by many sources, about the Nortel sale and foreign ownership. Even without his atypical bid, the government would have, I believe, "addressed" the issue, which is to say, they would have said something about it.
Will the government devise and implement a Canadian strategy for the international high-tech sector? That will take more than talk.
Why is foreign ownership a concern?
Wally, it's difficult to ensure Canadian jobs once a head office leaves the country. The government does have a " feel good " requirement, seldom taken seriously , that such sales show a net benefit to Canada. Good luck on that one. The former Stelco plant in Hamilton is an example of a foreign based owner company not living up to it's commitments to staffing levels. Obviously, if all purchasers of companies honoured such agreements, there would be less concern with foreign ownership.
Oh the issue of foreign ownership concerns foreigners owning property in Canadian. I thought the issue was Canadians owning property in other countries.
I don't mix business with Canadianism. Hudson's Bay, Eaton's, Tim Hortons are businesses only -- they are not Canadian. I get my sense of nationhood elsewhere than from business.
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