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I’m begging you.

"…we’ve toppled over a cliff, and no one really knows how far down we might fall…"

But lemmings don’t care about that.

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Update: I was looking for a picture of a lemming. Not much luck, but ironically I did come across this which turned out to be quite prophetic.

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Please listen to John Tory live on the Jeff Allan show this morning for all three hours.

Right now he is addressing the economy, as well as the (lack of) the rule of law in Ontario. Listen live here and please try to call in.

Now’s your chance to air your grievances, all you malcontents.

Moebius, that means you!

Maybe I’m missing something here, but why are municipalities in Ontario continuing to issue building permits on disputed land? Why not wait until the land claim is resolved?

Or would that make too much sense?

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Update: Not much work going on today.

Just caught Linda Leatherdale on the Gary Doyle show. She’s telling Dwight Duncan to wake up and ask businesses in Ontario what they need to survive. She even used the D-word!

Do you think the McGuinty government is doing everything it can to protect Ontario from a recession?

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Update: Sorry folks. Not sure why comments had been turned off. Please add yours now if you are concerned about Ontario’s economic picture. Thanks.

Also please check out Christina Blizzard - Economy is a ‘challenge’?

… Duncan was trying to put a cheerful face on the numbers, refusing to use the "R" word. Apparently, it’s a "challenge," not a recession.

"I think we are in some challenging times, which I have been saying since my fall statement. I think those challenges continue," Duncan said, insisting that his economic plan is working…

…Niagara West-Glanbrook MPP Tim Hudak told reporters yesterday that since 2005, the closure of two processing plants in the Niagara area and a change in suppliers for another has affected hundreds of growers and left 6,000 acres of prime agricultural land without a market.

"That’s about 22% of the acreage under vine or in tender fruit in Niagara that now has no buyer for it," Hudak said.

Cherry Lane frozen foods in Vineland has moved to imported sweet cherries, impacting 200 acres, he said. Cadbury-Schweppes in St. Catharines, the last grape juice producer in this province, closed, putting 26 people out of work and impacting 1,700 acres of juice grape vines, with another 1,500 acres expected to be ripped out this year.

Can-Gro cannery in St. David’s, the last tender fruit canning factory this side of the Rockies went belly-up. That not only means lost jobs. It means farmers who have produced peaches, plums, apricots and other tender fruits in Niagara for generations no longer have a market for their crop.

Thousands of trees and vines have been ripped out.

"If the provincial government doesn’t take action it is possible that the 6,000 acres of formerly productive tender fruit and grape lands will form a growing agricultural brownfield within the greenbelt," Hudak said…

(Well, I’m not sure exactly what kind of action Hudak expects the Government to take, but it sure isn’t fair to cherry-pick.)

…Go ahead, rip out the peach trees. Who really cares if we have to buy our fruit from China or South America?

Mark my words, though: The sweet smell of burning peach trees will never mask the stench of a government gone mouldy before its time.

Well said, Christina. but the lemmings seem to like rotten fruit.

The Record pegs the cost of the Caledonia dispute at $54 million at the second year mark, with no end in sight.

All new land development along the Grand River watershed, including various Waterloo Regional bridge construction projects could be highjacked by the demands of the HDI, which has obviously been emboldened by the lack of consequences for law-breakers.

And the Post notes that this attitude appears to be extending into car-theft industries, and other illegal undertakings.

Yet the McGuinty government looks the other way when it comes to law-enforcement, which is under Provincial jurisdiction.

And then Dalton gets angry when Jim Flaherty tells him that Ontario is not the best province in which to invest?

Duh!

The truth hurts, doesn’t it?