#election #politics #simpsonRose Simpson: Ontario Election - Just us chickens sitting on the fence_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ For the first time in my life, I’ve actually thought about NOT VOTING in an Ontario election. ...
#election #media #politics #simpsonRose Simpson: No place to sit in the political tent_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ I grew up under the care and tutilege of a single mother. ...
#election #jobs #media #simpsonRose Simpson: Media types should stop calling jobless Canadians lazy_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ _ _ Last week, I was watching Power Play , the CTV blorgfest chaired by the cherubic Don Martin who was discussing the current state of the job market. ...
#simpsonRose Simpson: All rascals go to Heaven_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/roj.jpg) I spent yesterday morning with my friend Roger Levett, or perhaps I should say, I spent the morning with the last vestiges of the old guy who had expired during the night and lay resting on his bed, waiting for the funeral directors to come fetch him. ...
#gas prices #markets #simpsonRose Simpson: I'd like to go to the Farmer's Market, but I've run out of gasRose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/finnie.jpg) _ Photo by Scott Troyer _ I was so damned excited that the Ottawa Farmer’s Market was opening this weekend, I nearly wet myself. ...
#election #simpsonRose Simpson: Ready, set, yawn for the Ontario election_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ _ _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2004-06-18-justvote3.jpg) Photo by [ Glen Gower ](http://about. ...
#hintonburg #kanata #signsTwo signs, one about love and one about hateThis old municipal sign at the corner of Eagleson and Katimavik in Kanata hasn’t been changed in years: [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-29-at-9.31.27-PM.png) [ Photo by Glen Gower via Instagram ](http://instagram.com/glengower) Meanwhile in Hintonburg, Evan Hughes took a photo of this sign, posted by someone who appears to hate spandex: ...
#simpsonRose Simpson: Girls Gone Wild at 24 Sussex[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rdb466/8507739822) _ Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the Prime Minister’s Residence _ _ Photo by Ross Dunn, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ _ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . ...
#beer #simpsonRose Simpson: The Beer Store protects kids (Yeah, right)_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ If you live in Ontario, by now, you will have seen a commercial warning parents to lock up their kids because the government is loosening the monopoly held by The Beer Store on the sale of ales and lagers. ...
#parliament hill #people #politics #simpsonRose Simpson: Let's humanize Jim Flaherty, not lionize him_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ [ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveyjphoto/9801445993) Cotton Candy Clouds by David Johnson, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group ...