Torontoist: Gore Gets Nobel, Ontarians Get Statutory Holiday, Sundin Gets Scoring Record

October 12, 2007

Gore Gets Nobel, Ontarians Get Statutory Holiday, Sundin Gets Scoring Record

Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize. And then Ann Coulter's head exploded.

Dalton McGuinty proclaims "Family Day" stat holiday in February. This...wait, did he actually keep a promise this time? Wow.

Ontario economy projected to only grow 1.8% in 2008. You know what we need to get our economy humming again? Mass production of a car that runs on dandelions. I am just saying.

David Miller says the election shows that city residents are willing to pay higher taxes. However, he would have said this regardless of who won. If the Conservatives had swept Toronto, he would have said, "Well, this just goes to show that Torontonians want lower provincial taxes so they can afford to pay higher municipal taxes."

And Mats Sundin broke the Leafs' all-time scoring record last night as he and his team thrashed the Islanders 8–1.

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Comments (11)

[1] | 10/12/07 11:43AM

New York will have its revenge when the Rangers pwn the Leafs in November.

How the Islanders lost is still a mystery.

Props Gore and McGuinty! Their hair is about the same colour.

[2] | 10/12/07 11:45AM

Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
^^^ I'm liking him less and less.

[3] | 10/12/07 11:54AM

Miller's logic in his assumption is pretty astounding. Liberals raised taxes, and people voted in the Liberals once again, so they must like the higher taxes. It couldn't be that Toronto residents just didn't like what the competition had to offer or anything...

[4] | 10/12/07 12:16PM

It's kind of odd that Gore won the peace prize... Don't those normally go to politicians who have created peace treaties and stopped wars?

I mean, good on him, but I suppose it makes as much sense as him winning the Oscar for best documentary when all they did was film him talking in front of a screen and then throw Mac ads in whenever they needed a break.

Also, yay Leafs. Keep up the non-disappointments.

[5] | 10/12/07 12:22PM

Miller may also be noting that Toronto voted back a bunch of Liberals, even though McGuinty has been pretty blunt about saying that he's not willing to dip into his surplus in any meaningful way to help Toronto.

That works out well for McGuinty's new BFF, David Miller, who can push through his taxes on the premise that there's no chance of a Queen's Park bailout.

Considering that only 52% of eligible voters voted at all, and only 40% of those voted Liberal, it's impossible to say that the outcome of the vote represents much besides widespread apathy.

[6] | 10/12/07 12:27PM

@Guest 2: A problem that wasn't helped by newspapers, proclaiming that voters had "forgiven" McGuinty for his broken promises, etc., in voting the Liberals back in. But hey, that's sloppy journalism for you.

[7] | 10/12/07 12:27PM

Oops. Guest @ 3. Sorry.

[8] | 10/12/07 02:09PM

I'm very much reminded of The Simpsons episode "Trash of the Titans":

Act one. In a skyscraper, a man in a business suit delivers the state of financial affairs for his company. Someone in the room coughs. His presentation is not very well-received, and he is promptly carted off by security at the nod of a cigar-smoking business leader, who closes the blinds and addresses his eight underlings.

Manager: Okay, people. We need to cook up a new holiday for the summer. Something with, eh, gifts, cards, assorted gougeables.
Woman: How about something religious? We had great penetration last spring with "Christmas II"!
Man: Ooh, I know, Spendover, like Passover but less talk, more presents!
The businesspeople around the table break into serious discussion, until the cigar-smoking man breaks them up. He decides the holiday needs to be something warm and fuzzy, like "Love Day," only not so lame. Cut to the Simpsons in their TV room celebrating Love Day.

("Trash of the Titans" was the ninth-season episode in which Homer successfuly runs for Sanitation Commissioner. I hated when I first saw it at the age of 13, but watching it more recently, I think it's the sharpest piece of political satire in the whole series. I learn from Wikipedia that then-councillors Jack Layton and Olivia Chow screened it for Toronto City Council during the "deliberations over the proposal to turn the abandoned Adams Mine in Northern Ontario into a massive dump site for Toronto's garbage.")

Anyway, the first Family Day will be Monday, February 18, 2008. My birthday is the preceding day. I would like to take advantage of the fact that my birthday will be on the eve of a new holiday. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[9] | 10/12/07 02:27PM

Jonathan, I'm a Feb 17th baby too and am jazz about this. YEAH US!

[10] | 10/13/07 10:43AM

Okay, nobody has said it so far, but that was a pretty awesome Pushing Daisies reference you put in there...

[11] | 10/13/07 11:50PM

the nobel comittee explained their logic for awarding the prize on the topic of climate change (al is a co-winner) by saying that as climate change becomes more of an issue it will also result in more conflict in the world over scarce resources. therefore calling attention to the issue warrants the peace prize.