Finally, here comes
another one of my Blogs. Oh sure, I am not producing them as often
as I did before but I am sure that you, dear reader, understand the
reason for that.
Just in case some of
you are not aware or have just joined my site, I have been recently
diagnosed of having prostate cancer. I seem to be relatively
fortunate at this stage because it does not seem to have spread very
far. I will be going through a very substantial radiation treatment
system starting in the next little while which I hope will knock out
a good part of the health difficulties I have now. It is a forty day
session in which I go in every day Monday to Friday to receive
treatment.
Apparently, I go in
early September to have some testing undertaken for the treatments
that I will be receiving. I am not really sure what will happen but
will probably write about it after it is completed. I do want people
to know what is being done by our medical system to help people who
have picked up diseases like mine.
However, let me talk
about lots of other things that are going on around here as I did in
the past. Here are some of the issues that I have looked at before
but, because of my situation, I have not written about until now.
WINDSOR COUNCIL
I have nothing in
particular to write about with respect to the political matters
involving the City Council in Windsor. As you know, dear reader, I
used to write a lot. Unfortunately, I have not seen very much about
what is going on in political matters in the City.
What interested me
after the municipal election in October 2018 is the fact that four
new people were elected as Councillors: Fabio Costante, Gary
Kaschak, Kieran McKenzie and Jim Morrison.
I have seen a number
of stories involving both Fabio and Kieran. That does not surprise
me at all because I believe that both of them are very politically
involved and could use their position in Windsor as a forerunner of
them running for more a senior position in the future. I have to
admit though that none of the stories that I have read about their
involvement, and can remember today, are all that significant as far
as I am concerned.
As far as the other
gentlemen, I do not know much about them at all. I know very little
about Gary Kaschak. Apparently, he ran a pretty good campaign and
that is what made him the winner. However, I cannot recall anything
about him in the media these days. I did a very quick search about
him in both Google and the Windsor Star website and found almost
nothing about his involvement as Councillor so far.
It seems the same
for Jim Morrison. I have done some research on him but found very
little in which he was named for what he did. I must admit that his
election platform https://www.voteforjim.ca/platform
seemed interesting but I have not seen much in which he has been
publicized to date.
I did see this story
about his actions as one example:
“A Windsor
councillor is imploring the city to halt any future destruction of
the South Cameron Woodlot after residents amassed thousands of
signatures on an online petition.
Ward 10 councillor
Jim Morrison presented the petition to council on Monday night. It
features nearly 10,000 signatures collected in the past few weeks.”
(CTV Windsor, March 27, 2019)
Let’s see what
happens as Year #2 of their election approaches.
https://beta.windsorstar.com
It seems that
Windsor Star is planning to do something different now. Exactly
what, I do not have the faintest idea. By chance, I found the above
beta website of theirs which may be the new way that their stories are going to be produced. Who knows, it may also be the structure
of a new website where they are going to charge people a subscription
fee for joining so they can see the stories of this newspaper.
In doing a bit of
research, I found this website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_v500M23s that you might be
interested in looking at since it deals with new media that seems to
be coming out. Sure it was done five years ago but we can see how
things were to change.
What is interesting
is the comment that, regardless of how the news media will operate in
future, there is always the need for the media to exist to provide
information to the public. Just take a listen at around the 11:45
mark of the video.
OUR NEW PRIME
MINISTER
Making the
assumption that not only will Sandra Pupatello be selected as
candidate for the Liberals for the Windsor West seat in the upcoming
election but also will beat the NDP MP, Brian Masse who has been
elected there so many times, that should make it interesting to see
what happens in federal politics in the future.
Let me just guess
what I think could happen.
I expect that Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau will be re-elected in the next election and
that Ms. Pupatello will become a very significant Cabinet Minister
after the election after she wins her campaign. After all, she did
quite well when she was in Ontario as a Cabinet Minister and almost
became the Premier here.
It will take some
time I am sure but I expect the Prime Minister will keep on making
mistakes and that, eventually, he will decide that he had better
“retire” from office before something might happen to him. If
that does happen, I would expect that Ms. Pupatello would become one
of the Liberal candidates who would run to take over his position.
It would be exactly what she tried to do in Ontario!
Now I have no idea
how well she would do. Obviously, it would be best if nothing
happened for several years so that her reputation could be built up
rather dramatically in her cabinet position. That would make it
appear as if she had all of the requirements necessary to be the head
of the Party once the PM left but, more importantly, the head of the
Government in Canada.
Can you imagine
though if she won! The Head of the Government would be one of the
MPs in the Windsor, Ontario area. That would certainly build our
future in a number of areas including our business and employment
situation which is not all that good these days.
I certainly do not
want to play a significant role in her election campaign and
afterwards. However, whoever fills that position might want to read
what I just wrote above and start planning what is going to happen to
her after the election assuming that she has won. I expect that she
would play a very important role in this country that could well lead
her to the very senior position as our new Prime Minister.
