My golly, what a wacky day it was in the House. I'm sorry I didn't have time to blog it, because there was lots of weird goings-on. I was busy most of the day in the Law Amendments Committee, and also helping to supervise our response to the bills that were rapidly passing through the House.We wrapped up tonight, shortly after 8 p.m., when the Lieutenant Governor came in to give Royal Assent to the...

I'd been predicting that the session would end on Thursday, and all indications were that would happen.How quickly things change.It now seems quite clear that this session will end tomorrow (Tuesday). The government is jettisoning, or deferring, anything that looks to be controversial. An example would be the "restricted dog" provisions the government proposed adding to the Municipal Government Act...

When I first started this blog, my posts would be published virtually instantly.I've noticed, during this session of the House, that there can be a delay of as much as 2-3 hours between the time I post something and the time it actually gets published to the Web. I guess Blogger/Blogspot is slowing down.......

The House is scheduled to sit today from 9-11 a.m. only.The reason for the early finish is that there are a couple of events that MLAs want to attend, particularly the Red Friday "Support Our Troops" event in Bridgewater today. They've gone all out for a particularly large turnout. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Rick Hillier, will be there.In fact General Hillier is here at Province House this...

We had a technical glitch just before Question Period today. The microphones stopped working (some would say that's a good thing). Although we could obviously continue without microphones -- the Chamber is small and no-one would have a problem being heard -- they're important for television and for purposes of the verbatim transcript.So we took a 10-minute break until the problem was ironed out. Th...