My Prairie Gazette

BBC: Outrage in Australia against the “most senior Muslim cleric” [mufti]. He said that some women are attracting sexual assault by the way they dress. Listen this: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside… and the cats come and eat it… whose fault is it, the …

You can go and see the election results (if you don’t know yet) on the local newspaper’s website. There are also interesting articles, comments and numbers.

Let’s play a little bit with the numbers.
The old/new mayor got 61.6% of the votes. Most people never look further, so the general assumption …

In the last several weeks all over the media (and our mailbox) was full of election stuff. When you find it annoying, think about places where people die or go to jail for wanting to have free elections. Coming for a place where in my youth the result of the elections always used to be 99.98% YES for the only existing party - even if nobody showed up to vote… I truly can appreciate the freedom and the choices. Over there it just didn’t make sense to show up at the booth. The results were pre-defined. Here, because many of us take this freedom and right granted, they just don’t care. If I remember well, in Australia voting is mandatory and you get fined for not showing up. I like it! If you have a right, you have a duty, too. Rights come with duties and responsibilities, but in this country everybody knows only their rights.
Mentioning duties and responsibilities is so “un-cool”…

So, here we go with the election day. We will elect a mayor and councillors. And I guess school trustees, too, that’s just out of my focus, since I don’t have children of that age.