They’re sprouting like wildflowers – new citizen’s campaigns to get rid of Stephen Harper. I already belong to two: the wonderful “Can this onion ring get more votes than Stephen Harper”? and “Canadians rallying to unseat Stephen Harper.” Now there’s another, at “Catch22campaign.ca.” How amazing that a man can provoke such a level of dislike and distrust and continue to rule. The long form census – who would ever have known one tiny thing about it, until the man arbitrarily tried to get rid of it? Because of his deeply conservative, libertarian principles, says Michael Valpy in the “Globe.” Big Brother is going to find out everything about you via the long form census and then suck out your brain. And then take away all your guns, leaving you defenceless against the Communist and/or alien hoards.

the brilliant Naomi Klein and an anti-Ford protest in summer heat
Summer continues, bewildered but happy Torontonians out in tank tops, shorts, flipflops. On October 1 Lynn and I swam in