Blue Like You

Brendan at Poliwoliblog seems concerned about the rumour that George Smitherman might run for mayor of Toronto in 2010 .

I say, let Toronto have him - Just as long as David Miller doesn’t end up in charge of Ontario Health care.

What a nightmare that would be.

The Gazette’s Elizabeth Thompson on Sandra Buckler being hospitalized for thyroid cancer (H/T National Newswatch) :

…The press gallery is sending flowers - although a flowering cactus might be more appropriate given Ms. Buckler’s prickly relations with most members of the fourth estate on the Hill …

Get well, Ms. Buckler. And do your best to ignore the tasteless comments from the peanut gallery.

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Update : Some of the earlier nastiness was captured by Reid and Jack , before Ms. Thompson had a chance to hit the edit and delete buttons.

Upperdate : Thompson’s blog keeps changing as she desperately attempts to dig herself out of this hole, but just ends up getting in deeper. Via Jack’s Newswatch , we see that Warren is not impressed. Jack has been doing an excellent job keeping up with this fast-changing story.

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Reid has the latest . Elizabeth Thompson has sent a personal apology and a bouquet of non-prickly flowers to Sandra Buckler (see Update 2 ).

Personally, I hope this incident has raised awareness between the PPG and the PMO about what really matters in life - which is life . When you come right down to it, we’re all on the same side.

Thursday update : Liz’s editor returned Dr. Roy’s phone call on the matter. Read all about it here - Elizabeth Thompson’s editor called .

Fagstein - Over the top . Just not sure if he’s referring to Thompson’s comments there, or the reaction from the blogosphere…