From the archives: As the iconic movie turns 30, fans may be surprised to know much of it was filmed in Ontario
Tag Archives: St. Catharines
Please don’t laugh at our floats
On parade with Chewbacca, Platinum Blonde and an iron-fisted flower monarch
Someone call Larry Bertuzzi to sort this out
The Conservatives may or may not allow gas tax revenues to be used to build a hockey arena in Quebec City, but the mayor of Quebec City isn’t open to using the city’s gas tax funding to build that arena and he and Quebec Premier Jean Charest are now ready to go ahead without the federal government’s involvement. Regardless, the mayor of Edmonton is upset, the city of St. Catharines is interested and the city of Regina is befuddled.
Where he was
By my count, the Liberal bus stopped in eight ridings—all of them held by either a New Democrat or Conservative—over the last three days. For those who are interested in such things, here are those ridings, how the Liberals finished there in 2008, the margin of defeat and when the Liberals last won the riding.
On the run
At twenty to eight, he was flipping burgers on the roof of a TV studio for the local morning show.
The rolling people
As of tomorrow morning, I’m on the road, again. In this case that means following Michael Ignatieff around southern Ontario—Thornhill, Toronto, Burlington, Stoney Creek, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Oakville and Mississauga. The trip concludes with a visit to Caribana where the Liberal leader will, in a party tradition that dates to Laurier, be made to jump and wine.
Hope, change and Rick Dykstra
The Conservative MP takes to Twitter to protest Ralph Goodale coming into his hood.
The Commons: The eternal shame of the Ivy Leaguer
Harvard is a stain Ignatieff might never wash away