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I started writing this particular Webpage around 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, February 15. I have to admit that I was quite tired because I had to see a doctor early in this morning because of a problem I had in my ear. Fortunately, the doctor said that there was nothing there now which is serious. Of course, other than the small pain that I have now which should disappear very soon, he told me that I was fine.

Thank goodness for that. Who needs to have a problem in that particular ear because that is the ear that I sleep on every night. For the last few days, I had considerable difficulty sleeping on the other side of my head even though my ear there did not hurt. Hopefully, I'll have a very good night's sleep tonight.

Didn't you find the weather on this particular Thursday quite strange? I sure did. I have to admit that I didn't even understand the weather forecast that day. I just went to the Weather Network page and saw this note timed at 3:12 PM:

"Near zero visibility in fog is expected or occurring.

The dense fog has developed in some areas and will persist through tonight."

I had seen a forecast a few minutes earlier that was posted around 9:48 AM, but this one was slightly changed stating that the fog would last longer.

No, I don't want to appear to be silly but something really strange happened on the 15th that was quite astounding to me. I must admit that I do not have a really good explanation for it, but I am happy that it took place.

I was up very early in the morning because I had to decide whether I should go for a doctor's appointment that morning. Unfortunately, my ear was still hurting so I decided that I had to go. I had to go to a clinic because I did not expect that I would be able to see my own personal doctor that morning and I wanted to get something done as quickly as possible. I left around 8 AM expecting to get to the office of the doctor by around 8:30 AM. I wanted to sign up early because the office technically saw its first patient at 9 AM.

To be direct about it, I was not sure if I was going to go at all in the morning. It was pretty foggy out around 6 AM and I just was not sure if I wanted my wife to have to drive in that kind of weather. Amazingly, by the time we were ready to go at 8 AM, it was completely clear outside. Moreover, and I am glad the appointment finished so quickly, it was still clear when we started going home around 9:15 AM. I thought that I was very lucky the fog disappeared completely so early.

I watched a movie after lunch and then just happened to look outside. It was completely foggy. I just could not believe it! I was rather surprised. When I looked out a bit later, the fog was even thicker.  That was around the time when I went to the weather webpage and saw what I posted above. I just could not believe how lucky I was.

Of course, there has to be an explanation about why the weather cleared so magnificently during the time period when I went towards the downtown Windsor office of the doctor and then returned home into Tecumseh. Then, it changed up horribly. If it had not done so, then it would have prevented me from going for my examination.

I, of course, have an explanation about why this might have happened. However, as I am sure that you understand, it is a rather strange one. Accordingly, I'm not going to share it with you, dear reader, but I will let you figure out why you think all this marvelous weather change took place so that I could get the medical care I needed.

Now, it's time for me to talk about some news stories I saw recently.

WINDSOR IS FAILING AGAIN

Oh no, not another negative story about what is happening in this area. How can one of these stories actually happen when everything is supposed to be so wonderful around here these days. I don't know, dear reader, but is it something else that is now adding in so that a voter might get even angrier now and decide not to vote for the Mayor or existing Members of Windsor Council?

It was a short story but not a very good one:

"Windsor ranked 6th on Orkin Canada’s rattiest cities list for Ontario for 2017.  Windsor was 7th the year before." (Liz Thorne, Windsorite.ca, February 14, 2018) 

Wow, it got worse here. In case you are wondering, here are the 25 "top rattiest" cities in Ontario for rats and mice that I saw on the Orkin website:

PLEASE EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE

I'm not going to write a very big Blog about this because I have no idea what the real story is that is going on. One day everything seems to be fairly positive and then a few days later, everything seems to be in trouble. Here is what I mean:

"NAFTA deal possible by end of March, says Canadian envoy MacNaughton

 

OTTAWA -- Canada's ambassador to the United States said Monday he believes NAFTA negotiators can reach an agreement in principle by the end of March.

The upbeat assessment from envoy David MacNaughton comes in the face of the continuing threat from U.S. President Donald Trump to blow up the deal, which hangs over the final eight weeks in the current negotiating schedule.

MacNaughton refused to speculate on whether Trump is likely to pull out of NAFTA, but he said enough progress has been made on the "wiring and plumbing" of the agreement that all three countries can iron out their differences on the more substantial issues in the next two months." (Mike Blanchfield, Canadian Press, February 5, 2018)

Do you see what I mean? Oh sure, there are some anti-Trump comments. However I saw a very positive comment about the likelihood of a deal that could be completed in a few months between Canada, United States and Mexico.

However, I saw this in a news story a couple of days later:

"The ongoing effort to rescue and revamp NAFTA has made only limited progress because U.S. officials at the table find themselves hamstrung by the demands of the Trump White House and the talks are taking place too quickly, Canada's chief negotiator says…

Verheul described the current NAFTA talks as the most unusual negotiation he's ever been involved in.

"They do not come to the table — our counterparts — with a lot of flexibility. This is being driven to a large extent from the top, from the administration, and there's not a lot of flexibility," the veteran negotiator told the Canadian Global Affairs Institute." (Mike Blanchfield, Canadian Press, February 13, 2018) 

I hope you understand what I mean, dear reader. Are the parties really in a dispute amongst themselves or are they just playing a game designed to fool the public so that when they come to a resolution everyone will be pleased.

DID CAROLINE MULRONEY HURT HERSELF

As you know, she is running to be the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in Ontario. Yet, now the former leader is going to run to get back his job.

The big question is whether he will win or not. After all, one can argue that he should never have resigned in the first place. Accordingly his party members should be happy that he is coming back and vote for him to get his job back.

Ms. Mulroney may not be too happy about all of this. She has made this comment on Twitter:

"The determination of who is suitable to be a candidate in this leadership race is up to LEOC. As I’ve said before, Patrick Brown made the right decision to step down. A leadership election is not the place for him to try to clear his name…

"Our focus should remain squarely on beating Kathleen Wynne in less than 100 days. This is a distraction from that and I am disappointed." (Twitter, February 16, 2018) 

It will be interesting for me to see what the former Leader will be saying during the campaign and what he will say about her role running for the leadership in any further debates that they have. I just wonder if there will be any nastiness between the leadership candidates and if there is, how will the Liberals use it to have them get re-elected.