And finally, in local news

My particular neck of the woods, known officially as Halifax Citadel, has just been launched into a by-election scheduled for the 27th of June. Expect, therefore, periodic boring posts about the state of play between NDP candidate Leonard Preyra (yay!) Tory candidate (and former leadership postulant) Bill Black (Boooo!) and sacrificial lamb Liberal candidate Devin Maxwell (meh.) A Tory victory would give them a majority in the provincial House of Assembly, so it's a by-election with higher stakes than usual.

In addition, this riding has elected three different parties in three successive elections (NDP in 1998, Tory in 1999, Liberal in 2003) so there's quite a bit of fluidity in the electorate. Finally, given that the new government of total doofus Rodney MacDonald will want to go to the polls within the next year and a half or so, the outcome of this by-election might play a factor in when, exactly, they decide to face the electorate.